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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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"Seattle in 1865" photo with key to locations, Seattle, 1915
This hand-colored print of an 1865 Curtis & Miller photograph of Seattle was created in 1915 by E. Jenner for the Washington Title Insurance Company. Included in the display is a guide listing some of the landmarks visible in the image. The photograph was taken from about Main Street, looking North along Commercial Street (now First Avenue South). Visible at…
ID Number:1995.50.1
Date:1915
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Construction shed for battleship Nebraska, Moran Brothers shipyard, Seattle 1902
In 1901, the Moran Brothers shipyard of Seattle won the bid to build one of three battleships for the US Navy. To accommodate the construction of so large a vessel, the shipyard, located at the foot of South Charles Street, required major renovations. A large quantity of heavy tools and equipment was purchased, and a ship shed was built with…
ID Number:2000.87.21.18
Date:1902
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Construction of ship shed for battleship USS Nebraska, Moran Brothers shipyard, 1902
In 1901, the Moran Brothers shipyard of Seattle won the bid to build one of three battleships for the US Navy. To accommodate the construction of so large a vessel, the shipyard, located at the foot of South Charles Street, required major renovations. A large quantity of heavy tools and equipment was purchased, and a ship shed was built with…
ID Number:2000.87.21.22
Date:1902
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Crowd at keel laying ceremony for the Nebraska at Moran Brothers shipyard, July 4, 1902
In 1901, the Moran Brothers shipyard of Seattle won the bid to build one of three battleships for the US Navy. The shipyard underwent major renovations to accommodate the construction of such a large vessel, including the building of a 600 foot long ship shed. This photo shows a crowd of people gathered in the Nebraska's decorated construction shed to…
ID Number:2000.87.21.25
Date:1902
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Keel laying ceremony for battleship Nebraska at Moran Brothers shipyard, Seattle, July 4, 1902
In 1901, the Moran Brothers shipyard of Seattle won the bid to build one of three battleships for the US Navy. The shipyard underwent major renovations to accommodate the construction of such a large vessel, including the building of a 600 foot long ship shed. This photo shows the ceremony for the laying of the keel inside the construction shed…
ID Number:2000.87.21.27
Date:1902
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Crowd at keel laying ceremony for the Nebraska at Moran Brothers shipyard, July 4, 1902
In 1901, the Moran Brothers shipyard of Seattle won the bid to build one of three battleships for the US Navy. The shipyard underwent major renovations to accommodate the construction of such a large vessel, including the building of a 600 foot long ship shed. This photo shows a crowd of people gathered in the Nebraska's decorated construction shed to…
ID Number:2000.87.21.29
Date:1902
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Maude Zerby Strong painting a mural, Seattle, May 5, 1937
Illinois-born artist Maude Zerby Strong (1896-1978) was a long-time resident of Seattle who also lived in San Francisco from about 1930-1945. Strong was noted for her miniatures as well as regional landscapes. She also worked as a color artist at a Asahel Curtis' photo studio in Seattle.In this image, Strong poses in front of a mural she is painting at…
ID Number:2000.107.165.14.01
Date:1937
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Interior of Georgetown steam plant, Seattle, October 1985
The Georgetown Steam Plant, located near Boeing Field in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood, was originally constructed in 1906 for the Seattle Electric Company. The plant's overall contributions to electricity production were minor but the innovative methods and materials used to build it, the intact early-twentieth-century steam-generating equipment it houses, and the involvement of pioneering efficiency expert Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. (1868-1924),…
ID Number:2000.107.173.07.02
Date:1985
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Seattle Black Panther Party members at press conference, Seattle, July 1, 1968
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense established its Seattle chapter in the spring of 1968, after Aaron Dixon, Elmer Dixon, Anthony Ware, Garry Owens and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco for 17 year-old Bobby Hutton, who had been killed in a shootout with local police. While in Oakland, the Seattle youth met BPP…
ID Number:2000.107.246.07.03
Date:1968