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Hotel Leland, 84 Pike St., Seattle, circa 1903
This image of the Hotel Leland features a Seattle Water Department official checking water meters. The Hotel Leland, located on First Avenue and Pike Street, was built in 1900 by brothers Frank (1865-1954), John, and Erwin Goodwin of the Goodwin Real Estate Company. Seven years later a wooden planked road, called Pike Place, was constructed off of Pike Street and…
ID Number:1972.5346.27
Date:Circa 1903
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Building at corner of 1st Ave. and Pike St., Seattle, circa 1903
This building on the southwest corner of First Avenue and Pike Street in what is now the Pike Place Market neighborhood of Seattle was built in 1900. It was referred to variously as Knights of Pythias (K of P) Hall, Pythian Hall, and the Bartell Building until its purchase in 1915 by Frank Goodwin (1865-1954) of Goodwin Real Estate Company,…
ID Number:1972.5346.30
Date:Circa 1903
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Portrait of Squire Park residents, Seattle, 1918
Pictured here are five Seattlites who lived and/or worked on E. Jefferson Street in Seattle's Squire Park neighborhood. The individuals are identified on the verso of the photograph left to right as: Robert Ross "Bob" Hedges, born in Oklahoma in 1881, was a car operator at Puget Sound Traction Light & Power (PSTL&P); Vincent Amato, born in Italy in 1876,…
ID Number:1972.5373.20
Date:1918
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Group of Igorot performers 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:1972.5502.13
Date:1909
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Columbia Eneutseak (Nancy Columbia) at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
Columbia Eneutseak (1893-1959), also known as Nancy Columbia or Miss Columbia, was part of a family from Labrador that performed in Seattle at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition's "Eskimo Village" in 1909. Columbia's mother, Esther Eneutseak, was brought from Labrador to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where her daughter, Columbia was born. Eneutseak recruited other Inuit from Labrador to perform…
ID Number:1972.5502.14
Date:1909
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CG-7214 under way near Seattle, circa 1943
The Coast Guard harbor patrol boat CG-7214, shown here, was built by Olson & Winge Marine Works in Seattle. In addition to Olson & Winge, five other Seattle yards received contracts to build 54 of these patrol boats beginning in 1943.Olson & Winge Marine Works was formed in 1941 by Oscar E. Olson (b. 1882) and Carl B. Winge (1891-1956).…
ID Number:1972.5503.69
Date:Circa 1943
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U. S. Army and Navy boats docked at the Olson & Winge Marine Works yard, Seattle, circa 1944
Olson & Winge Marine Works was formed in 1941 by Oscar E. Olson (b. 1882) and Carl B. Winge (1891-1956). The two met in 1910 while working for King and Winge Shipbuilding Company, started in 1899 by Carl's uncle, Albert M. Winge (1868-1916), and his partner Thomas J. King (1843–1925). From around 1941 to 1944, the Olson & Winge yard…
ID Number:1972.5503.103
Date:Circa 1944
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Panoramic view of U. S. Army and Navy boats docked at the Olson & Winge Marine Works yard, Seattle, circa 1944
Olson & Winge Marine Works was formed in 1941 by Oscar E. Olson (b. 1882) and Carl B. Winge (1891-1956). The two met in 1910 while working for King and Winge Shipbuilding Company, started in 1899 by Carl's uncle, Albert M. Winge (1868-1916), and his partner Thomas J. King (1843–1925). From around 1941 to 1944, the Olson & Winge yard…
ID Number:1972.5503.109a
Date:Circa 1944
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Pilot boat CGR-2469 in the water at the Olson & Winge Marine Works, Seattle, 1944
Coast Guard pilot boat CGR-2469 came to the Olson & Winge Marine Works yard as the Columbia for conversion during World War II. She had been built in 1914 as the King & Winge, one of the most famous ships ever built in Seattle. Designed by Albert Winge, she was built by the King and Winge Shipbuilding Company, intended as…
ID Number:1972.5503.141
Date:1944
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Mayor Bertha Landes and Captain Roald Amundsen at train station, Seattle, June 28, 1926
Bertha Ethel Knight Landes (1868-1943) was the first female mayor of a major American city, serving as mayor of Seattle from 1926 to 1928. Landes vowed to clean up city government, running for mayor on the platform of "municipal housekeeping." She served only one term as mayor but remained a civic leader in such organizations as the Women's University Club,…
ID Number:1974.5855.17
Date:1926