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Seattle, Washington, Postal delivery section map, circa 1950
In 1903 Carl Albert Kroll (1882-1982) immigrated from Germany to the U. S., finding work as a drafting technician at the Moran Brothers shipbuilding company. By 1910 Kroll was the manager at O. P. Anderson Map & Blue Print Company. The following year he acquired both the Anderson Map Company and the Washington Map and Blueprint Company and merged them…
ID Number:2019.3.15
Date:Circa 1950
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Boston Heights Supplemental Addition to the City of Seattle, February 25, 1890
Thomas Rock (1846-1908) immigrated to the U. S. from Ireland about 1870. By 1877 he was living in Seattle, and married another Irish immigrant, Mary Ann (Graham) Rock (1853-1932), and started a family. The Rocks owned property in Seattle, probably from a donation land claim granted by the U. S. government, that was platted as the Boston Heights Supplemental Addition…
ID Number:2019.3.20
Date:1890
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Seattle Tide Lands, Volume Two, index, 1894-1896
Seattle in the late nineteenth century was a rapidly growing city, aided in no small part by the 1883 connection to the rest of the country by the Northern Pacific Railway Company (NPRR). Additionally, the city's population doubled in 1890 from the previous year to 40,000, boosted by the influx of people who saw opportunity in rebuilding after Seattle's Great…
ID Number:2019.3.23.1
Date:1894-1895
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Denny Regrade District, Seattle, 1928
Begun in 1898, the Denny Hill Regrade leveled one of Seattle's steepest hills, with an aim to connect neighborhoods and facilitate traffic flow. Before the regrade, Second Avenue rose 190 feet in the twelve blocks between Pioneer Square and Lenora Avenue. The project began by flattening First Avenue between Pine Street and Denny Way. The sluiced-away dirt was dumped into…
ID Number:2019.3.25
Date:1928
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E-Z Map of Seattle with indicator, 1926
This E-Z Guide Map is a folding map of 1926 Seattle, with a riveted rotating pointer to "easily locate" your destination using a letter-number key. It also highlights bus routes, street cars, hotels, motion picture houses, hospitals and parks, among other Seattle attractions of the time. The back of the map gives an index of streets and the locations of…
ID Number:2019.3.44
Date:1926
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Share the Ride Zone Map, Seattle, 1942
In 1942, during World War II, the federal government’s War Production Transport Commission mandated that citizens cut back on the use of gasoline and rubber tires for the war effort. Seattle and other cities developed city-wide carpooling plans. Businesses and neighborhoods formally registered share-the-ride groups, and members were eligible for additional gasoline stamps once rationing began. By the fall of…
ID Number:2019.3.46
Date:1942
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Ballard's Addition to Gilman Park, Seattle, March 11, 1890
Captain William Rankin Ballard (1844-1929) was a Seattle pioneer, banker, and land developer. His family came to the Puget Sound area in about 1865, and William was living in Seattle by about 1870. William's father, Dr. Levi Ward Ballard (1815-1897), and step-mother, Mary Esther (Condict) Ballard (1833-1909), settled south of Seattle, where Levi is remembered for his 1886 filing of…
ID Number:2019.3.47
Date:1890
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Latona Addition to the City of Seattle, October 28, 1889
George Morris "Morris" Haller (1852-1889) was born in Pennsylvania to U.S. Army Colonel Granville Owen Haller (1819-1897), and his wife, Henrietta Maria (Cox) Haller (1824-1910). The family moved frequently around the country during Granville's military service, and upon his retirement in 1882, they moved to Seattle permanently. Morris studied law in Seattle and became a successful attorney and real estate…
ID Number:2019.3.48
Date:1889
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Oral history interview with Norm Rice, October 24 and October 31, 2002
Interview with Norm Rice conducted by Gary Saaris on October 24 and 31, 2002, for the Speaking of Seattle Oral History Project. The 49th mayor of Seattle, Rice was Seattle's first Black mayor, serving two terms from 1990 to 1997. Before entering city government, he worked as a reporter at KOMO-TV and KIXI radio and as the Assistant Director of…
ID Number:2019.35.1.55
Date:2002
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Interior of the B.F. Middleton general store in South Park, Seattle, circa 1895
B.F. (Benjamin Franklin) Middleton, an Iowa native, moved to California and then to the Seattle area after the 1889 Seattle Fire. He settled in South Park in the Duwamish Valley in 1893 and ran a large grocery business and general store at 8207 Dallas Avenue in South Park’s business district.In this image, Middleton stands inside his store surrounded by goods…
ID Number:2019.92.2
Date:1895