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Image of Baist's Real Estate Atlas of Surveys of Seattle, Plate 12, 1908
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Baist's Real Estate Atlas of Surveys of Seattle, Plate 12, 1908

The G. William Baist Company of Philadelphia produced real estate and insurance maps of over twenty different cities across the United States between the 1880s and 1967. The company published atlases in Seattle in 1905, 1908, and 1912, illustrating property ownership, building materials and improvements, and transportation routes.This map, labeled Plate 12, was separated from the atlas, and shows the…
ID Number:1985.4.13
Date:1908
Image of Arthur and Rolland Denny standing in front of the Dexter Horton Bank, Seattle, circa 1880
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Arthur and Rolland Denny standing in front of the Dexter Horton Bank, Seattle, circa 1880

This photo of Arthur Denny and Rolland Herschel Denny in front of Dexter Horton Bank in Seattle is included in a cartes de visite album that was owned by Margaret Lenora Denny. It includes additional portraits which are probably of people in Washington, D.C. from when Arthur Denny served there as a representative for Washington Territory. Seattle pioneer Arthur Armstrong…
ID Number:1990.45.30.1
Date:Circa 1880
Image of Mary Louise Frye Fortson Kirk, circa 1898
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Mary Louise Frye Fortson Kirk, circa 1898

Mary Louise "Minnie" (Frye) Fortson Kirk was born Feb. 6, 1864 in Seattle to George Frederick Frye and Louisa Catherine Denny Frye (daughter of Seattle pioneer Arthur Armstrong Denny). Minnie married George Haley Fortson on March 4, 1896, in Seattle, but he was killed in the Philippines during the Philippine-American War on March 26, 1899. In 1924, Minnie married Dr.…
ID Number:1990.45.36
Date:Circa 1898
Image of Studio portrait of George Frederick Frye, Seattle, circa 1910
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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
Image of Studio portrait of Florence Denny Heliker, Seattle, August 1898
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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
Image of Surviving members of Denny Party at Alki Point monument, Seattle, November 13, 1905
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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
Image of Eli Stanford and family in front of cabin, circa 1900
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Eli Stanford and family in front of cabin, circa 1900

Joseph Swartz was a shingle mill owner in Granite Falls, Washington, in the 1890s and early 1900s. By 1908, he had relocated his business to Everett. Swartz was also an amateur photographer. His images of family, friends and local scenery, all on glass plate negatives, document life in Snohomish County at the turn of the 19th century.This Swartz photo, probably…
ID Number:1991.40.19
Date:Circa 1900
Image of View of farm and fields, circa 1900
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View of farm and fields, circa 1900

Joseph Swartz was a shingle mill owner in Granite Falls, Washington, in the 1890s and early 1900s. By 1908, he had relocated his business to Everett. Swartz was also an amateur photographer. His images of family, friends and local scenery, all on glass plate negatives, document life in Snohomish County at the turn of the 19th century.This Swartz image of…
ID Number:1991.40.173
Date:Circa 1900
Image of Mayflower Passengers landing on New England Day at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, September 11, 1909
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Mayflower Passengers landing on New England Day at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, September 11, 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.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from 1909 to 1912. He also photographed the Alaska Gold Rush from 1891 to…
ID Number:1995.38.37.146
Date:1909
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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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