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Men loading boxcar at pier, circa 1935
Since the later part of the 19th century, Seattle has been a transshipment point for goods traveling between the United States and other Pacific Ocean ports. At the docks, longshoremen transferred the cargo between ships and the railroad. In the 1930s, the men did most of this work by hand; by the 1990s, many dockworkers had been replaced by machinery.In…
ID Number:PI24031
Date:Circa 1935
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Jackson Street looking east from waterfront, Seattle, circa 1892
The topography of Seattle neighborhood now called the Chinatown - International District (CID) was altered drastically during the Jackson Street regrade from 1907 to 1909. About fifty-six city blocks were reshaped by the regrade, twenty-nine of them excavated and twenty-seven raised above the tide flats. On Jackson, dirt was mostly removed to lower the street nearly 90 feet at 9th…
ID Number:SHS469
Date:Circa 1892
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The last day of the Yesler cable car run, August 9, 1940
Seattle's Yesler Street cable car line was the first in the Pacific Northwest and only the seventh in the world. It carried passengers and freight along the 2.25 mile track between the downtown area and Leschi Park in sixteen minutes. The Yesler Street line opened in September 1888 and ran until August 1940. By that time, there were over 100,000…
ID Number:SHS8836
Date:1940