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Private bath in the Frye Hotel, Seattle, circa 1940
Stamped on back: Hotel Frye, Seattle, Wash.
circa 1940
In 1911 when George Frederick Frye (1833-1912) opened his eleven-story Louisa C. Frye Hotel near Pioneer Square, it was considered Seattle’s finest. The ornate Italian Renaissance design had an interior finish of mahogany and marble. It contained 350 deluxe rooms with exterior window views, 200 with private baths. President Theodore Roosevelt was a guest at the grand opening. Shortly after…
ID Number:1990.45.44
Date:Circa 1940
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Guest room with two beds, Frye Hotel, Seattle, circa 1912
In 1911 when George Frederick Frye (1833-1912) opened his eleven-story Louisa C. Frye Hotel near Pioneer Square, it was considered Seattle’s finest. The ornate Italian Renaissance design had an interior finish of mahogany and marble. It contained 350 deluxe rooms with exterior window views, 200 with private baths. President Theodore Roosevelt was a guest at the grand opening. Shortly after…
ID Number:1990.45.46
Date:Circa 1912
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Guest room with one bed, Frye Hotel, Seattle, circa 1923
In 1911 when George Frederick Frye (1833-1912) opened his eleven-story Louisa C. Frye Hotel near Pioneer Square, it was considered Seattle’s finest. The ornate Italian Renaissance design had an interior finish of mahogany and marble. It contained 350 deluxe rooms with exterior window views, 200 with private baths. President Theodore Roosevelt was a guest at the grand opening. Shortly after…
ID Number:1990.45.49
Date:Circa 1923
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Studio portrait of George Frederick Frye, Seattle, circa 1910
Georg Friedrich Christian Freye was born in Drakenburg, Germany, on January 15, 1833, the son of Otto Friedrich Christian Freye and Sophia Maria Pranga. He immigrated to the US at 16, working for his brother-in-law, Johann F. Rodekohr in Lafayette County, Missouri, until 1852 when he traveled to Oregon. The following year he moved to Seattle. He married Louisa Catherine…
ID Number:1990.45.82
Date:Circa 1910
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Studio portrait of Florence Denny Heliker, Seattle, August 1898
Florence Denny Heliker (1878-1962) was born to Seattle pioneer Rolland Herschel Denny (1851-1939) and Alice Martha Kellogg (1857-1940, daughter of Whidbey Island pioneer Dr. John Coe Kellogg). After attending Seattle High School, Florence and Dr. Mabel Seagrave were the first Seattle women to attend Wellesley College, graduating in 1904. Florence married skating rink proprietor Winthrop G Heliker (b.1878) in 1904,…
ID Number:1990.45.88
Date:1898
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Surviving members of Denny Party at Alki Point monument, Seattle, November 13, 1905
This photo of Seattle pioneers Carson D. Boren, Mary Ann Boren Denny, Rolland Herschel Denny, Louisa Catherine Denny Frye, and Mary Low Sinclair was taken on November 13, 1905 in front of a granite obelisk erected to commemorate the fifty-fourth anniversary of their arrival in Seattle. These individuals were the remaining members of the 24 person party led by Arthur…
ID Number:1990.45.89
Date:1905
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Eight Seattle women in carriage at Stanley Park, Vancouver B. C., August 1908
This photograph shows eight women from Seattle sitting in and standing near a carriage at Stanley Park, in Vancouver B. C., in August 1908. Identified on the back of the mat by Roberta (Frye) Watt are her grandmother, Mary Ann (Boren) Denny, sisters, Elizabeth (Frye) Bogue, Sophie (Frye) Bass, and Margaret Lenora Denny, aunt ""Lou"" L. Bacon, and Lily Maitland,…
ID Number:1990.45.92
Date:1908
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Sons of Herman Lodge members posing in studio, Seattle, circa 1904
The Order of the Sons of Herman (also Sons of Hermann or Hermann's Söhne) is a fraternal organization begun by German immigrants in New York City during the 1840s. The order promotes the love of German language and preservation of German traditions and customs, and was named for historical hero Hermann the “Cherusker,” who united the German tribes against Roman…
ID Number:1990.70.1
Date:Circa 1904
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Butterfield Trunk Co. employees in work shop, Seattle, January 13, 1920
Originally from Iowa, George Lester Butterfield (1882-1970) came to Seattle in 1910 and operated the Butterfield Trunk Company, a high-end luggage manufacturer, until its sale in 1968 to Skyway Luggage.In this image taken at the Butterfield work shop located at 87 Wall Street in Seattle, employees pose with various models of their hand-made trunks. A 1930 advertisement claimed that the…
ID Number:1990.74.4
Date:1920
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Ancient Order of United Workmen Drill Team No. 1, Seattle, 1902
The Ancient Order of United Workmen, founded in 1868, was a labor-associated fraternal organization that provided mutual insurance policies for its members. The AOUW in Seattle created a drill team in 1902, which in 1903 won the Lawrence L. Moore Trophy for the best drill team at the July 4 parade. This photograph shows nineteen members of the team posed…
ID Number:1990.86.1
Date:1902