3379 results for: Seattle Photographic Co.
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Nathan and Mina Eckstein on Luna Park souvenir postcard, 1907
A native of Bavaria, Nathan Eckstein (1873-1945) spent 10 years in New York’s wholesale grocery business before moving to the west coast. In San Francisco in 1902 he married Mina Alice Schwabacher (1878-1942) and the couple relocated to Seattle. Nathan served as vice president and then chief executive officer of Schwabacher & Company, which grew to become one of Seattle’s…
ID Number:1980.7166.1.71.3
Date:1907
Postcard
Crowds watching fire at Grand Trunk Pacific pier, Seattle, July 30, 1914
The image seen here was taken as crowds watch a fire that engulfed the Grand Trunk Pacific dock, located on the Seattle waterfront at the foot of Marion Street. The structure, at the time the largest wooden pier on the West Coast, was only four years old and had been built atop 5,000 creosote-soaked piles. Firefighters from nearby Engine House…
ID Number:1980.7171.1
Date:1914
Postcard
Entrance to Igorrote Village, Pay Streak at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world's fair held in Seattle in 1909, publicizing the development of the Pacific Northwest. The fairgrounds became the campus of the University of Washington. One of the most popular attractions at the AYPE was the "Igorrote Village," a simulated village of the Igorot (previously spelled Igorrote), a diverse group of Indigenous Peoples living in…
ID Number:1980.7177.5.37
Date:1909
Postcard
On the Pay Streak, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world's fair held in Seattle in 1909, publicizing the development of the Pacific Northwest. The fairgrounds became the campus of the University of Washington. The AYPE included a constructed "Eskimo Village," which exhibited Indigenous people as attractions for the fair's visitors. This postcard shows the "Eskimo Village" with the Ferris wheel visible in background.…
ID Number:1980.7177.5.38
Date:1909
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Hydroplane Miss Century 21, probably on Lake Washington, circa 1962
Originally called the Miss Thriftway, this hydroplane driving by Bill Muncey was changed to the Miss Century 21 in 1961 to publicize the 1962 Seattle's World Fair. Stamped on verso: Bob Carver Photos, 1001 Westlake No., Seattle 9, Washington.Caption information source: "Bill Muncey - The First Golden Age - Chapter 3 (1961)," by Fred Farley, The Hydroplane & Raceboat Museum,…
ID Number:1981.7209.9
Date:Circa 1962
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Club room at Washington Chauffeurs Club, Seattle, circa 1909
The Washington Chauffeurs Club was founded in 1909 as an outgrowth of the Auto Mechanics Association, to create a higher standard of skill and proficiency in the driving profession, to educate and otherwise assist members, and to assist families of deceased members. Shortly after its incorporation, the club moved into the Odd Fellows Temple at 917 East Pine Street. Its…
ID Number:1981.7211.2a
Date:Circa 1909
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Billiard room at Washington Chauffeurs Club, circa 1909
The Washington Chauffeurs Club was founded in 1909 as an outgrowth of the Auto Mechanics Association, to create a higher standard of skill and proficiency in the driving profession, to educate and otherwise assist members, and to assist families of deceased members. Shortly after its incorporation, the club moved into the Odd Fellows Temple at 917 East Pine Street. Its…
ID Number:1981.7211.2b
Date:Circa 1909
Ephemera
Seattle Pilots promotional photograph, 1969
Members of the Major League Baseball team the Seattle Pilots pose here in Sick's Stadium as a promotion for their 1969 inaugural season. Unfortunately, it would also be their last season. In 1967, Major League owners awarded an American League franchise to Dewey and Max Sorian, with the promise to the American League that a new stadium would be built…
ID Number:1981.7226.1
Date:1969
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Men in Metro Sewer project pipe, Seattle, February 1962
The Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle, commonly known as Metro, was designed to provide regional solutions for the problems of King County's fast-growing metropolitan area. In 1958, after rejecting a proposal for an agency with authority over a range of issues, voters approved a plan authorizing Metro to deal with a single pressing problem -- wastewater treatment. Over the next decade,…
ID Number:1981.7227.7.1
Date:1962
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Knight Templars castle at City Hall Park, Seattle, July 1925
The Knight Templars, a Masonic order modeled after Medieval Christian Crusaders, held their 36th triennial conclave in Seattle on July 28-30, 1925. More than 10,000 participants from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana flooded into Seattle. The city was decorated with over 150 illuminated Christian crosses, the order's symbol, including a 40-foot lighted cross placed on top of the Olympic Hotel,…
ID Number:1981.7254.6
Date:1925