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National Meat Company, Seattle, circa 1902
Seattle’s National Meat Company opened at 318 Main Street in 1902. According to an article in The Seattle Sunday Times, the facility consisted of “a well-appointed and attractively kept main floor and basement,” and its two delivery wagons “promptly deliver to all parts of the city.”In this image, Frank Jobson stands with his staff members in the retail shop’s interior.…
ID Number:SHS10674
Date:circa 1902
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Panning for gold at Gold Hill, Yukon Territory, circa 1898
Miners used water running through sluices to wash the gold out of the pay dirt. Larger chunks of gold and gravel settled out along the uneven bottom of the sluice boxes. The smallest pieces of gold and dirt were washed to end of the sluice box where the gold was removed by panning.This photo, taken around 1898 by Asahel Curtis,…
ID Number:SHS11388
Date:Circa 1898
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PT&T operators working at Garfield Exchange, Seattle, 1951
Telephone service in Seattle began with 90 customers in 1883. One of Seattle's original service providers, Sunset Telephone-Telegraph Company (later Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company, then AT&T) built a new exchange building in 1921 to help handle what was by then 83,347 customers, making half-a-million local telephone calls every day. The Garfield Exchange was built on Queen Anne Hill at…
ID Number:SHS11511
Date:1951
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Underground mining at Gold Hill, circa 1898
In Alaska and the Yukon, placer gold was found along ancient stream beds, some of which were twelve to forty feet underground at bedrock. The gold was frozen in the dirt or gravel. Miners chopped away at the frozen earth with picks or tried to thaw it with fires or steam machines. They "drifted" all winter, digging in the direction…
ID Number:SHS12491
Date:1900
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Wallace Bridge & Structural Steel employees, Seattle, March 4, 1930
John Duthie opened a small shipyard in Seattle around 1900. By 1930, Duthie & Company had changed its focus and renamed itself Wallace Bridge & Structural Steel Company. The Wallace plant fabricated structural steel for a number of bridges in Washington state, including Seattle’s Montlake Bridge (1925), the Lewis & Clark Bridge over the Columbia River (1929), and the Deception…
ID Number:SHS12521
Date:1930
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Bayview Brewery with horsedrawn wagon of beer, circa 1900
The Seattle Brewing & Malting Company was founded in 1878 and built its large new Bayview Brewery on Ninth Avenue South in 1890. When Washington state's prohibition laws closed down alcohol production in 1916, this was the state's largest brewery, and the sixth largest in the world. Rainier Beer was the firm's premium brand.This photo, taken around 1900, shows a…
ID Number:SHS12871
Date:Circa 1900
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Laundry woman during gold rush, circa 1902
While some women traveled to the gold fields with their husbands, others made the trip on their own. Women worked on mining claims, taught school, or set up businesses of their own. They did laundry, cooked meals, ran hotels and dance halls, and otherwise provided services to others in the community.This photo shows an African American woman at her laundry…
ID Number:SHS12965
Date:Circa 1902
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Workers making metal work for Smith Tower, circa 1912
Gaggin & Gaggin, an architectural firm in Syracuse, New York, designed Seattle's Smith Tower. Construction began in 1910, and the 42-story building opened in 1914. At that time, it was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River.This photo, taken in 1912 or 1913 shows workmen, including one teenager, making the iron and brasswork used in the the Smith Tower's…
ID Number:SHS15303
Date:Circa 1912
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Hop picking, circa 1895
In western Washington, hop vines were grown on tall poles. At harvest time, workers lowered the vines and picked the hops into wooden boxes. The boxes were a standard size and had handles so that two people could carry them. Pickers were paid by the box or by the pound.In this photo, probably taken in the 1890s, a man checks…
ID Number:SHS15558
Date:Circa 1895
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Four men digging tunnel in gold mine at Eldorado, circa 1898
In Alaska and the Yukon, placer gold was found along ancient stream beds, some of which were twelve to forty feet underground at bedrock. The gold was frozen in the dirt or gravel. Miners chopped away at the frozen earth with picks or tried to thaw it with fires or steam machines. They "drifted" all winter, digging tunnels in the…
ID Number:SHS15820
Date:Circa 1898