832 results for: Puget Sound
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Woman with hop basket, circa 1900
From the late 1860s to the early 1890s, hop farming was an important activity in the valleys of the Puget Sound region, including Puyallup, White River, and Snoqualmie. Indigenous workers came from through the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Alaska (but especially from regional tribes like the Puyallup, Snoqualmie, Muckleshoot, Duwamish, Sammamish, Lummi, and Nisqually) as a seasonal labor force to…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.139
Date:Circa 1900
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Steamships being built at Moran Brothers shipyard, Seattle, 1898
The Klondike gold rush brought lots of business to the Moran Brothers shipyard. In 1898, the company built twelve steamers to carry people and supplies on the Yukon River. The vessels were 175 feet long and 35 feet wide. They were built to be used in shallow river water, but they also had to be sturdy enough to make the…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.217
Date:1898
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Canoes on Black River, circa 1898
Until 1916, the Black River linked Lake Washington with the Duwamish River, and the water was deep enough for steamboats to travel between towns on the lake and Puget Sound. After the lake was lowered in 1916, during construction of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, the Black River dried up and gradually disappeared. This photo shows the Black River as…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.238
Date:Circa 1898
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Black River, Seattle, circa 1899
Before the building of the Lake Washington Ship Canal lowered the level of Lake Washington, the Black River linked lake commerce with Puget Sound by way of the Duwamish River. After the lowering of the lake during the summer of 1916, the Black River dried up and gradually disappeared. This photo shows the Black River as it looked around 1898-1900.
ID Number:Lib1988.33.284
Date:Circa 1899
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Black River with farmhouse in distance, circa 1899
Until 1916, the Black River linked Lake Washington with the Duwamish River, and the water was deep enough for steamboats to travel between towns on the lake and Puget Sound. After the lake was lowered in 1916, during construction of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, the Black River dried up and gradually disappeared. This photo shows the Black River as…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.286
Date:Circa 1899
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Logs passing through Montlake Ditch, Seattle, circa 1902
The Montlake Cut, between the Montlake and University District neighborhoods in Seattle, connects Lake Washington and Lake Union as part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal. When it was completed in 1916, it marked the realization of a 62-year-old idea to link the lakes with Puget Sound, creating a freshwater harbor in Seattle and a waterway connecting Seattle's shipping harbor…
ID Number:Lib1991.5.12
Date:Circa 1902
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Wooden lock in Montlake Ditch, Seattle, circa 1900
The Montlake Cut, between the Montlake and University District neighborhoods in Seattle, connects Lake Washington and Lake Union as part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal. When it was completed in 1916, it marked the realization of a 62-year-old idea to link the lakes with Puget Sound, creating a freshwater harbor in Seattle and a waterway connecting Seattle's shipping harbor…
ID Number:Lib1991.5.14
Date:Circa 1900
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Wharf and beach homes on waterfront, Seattle, circa 1895
Predating the settlement that became the city of Seattle, the Duwamish had an encampment with two longhouses situated along the north central waterfront, roughly at the intersection of present-day Bell Street and Alaskan Way. By around the 1860s, the longhouses were gone, leaving only modest beach structures. In the 1890s the waterfront from Pike Street north to Broad Street had…
ID Number:Lib1991.5.78
Date:Circa 1895
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Seattle Business College group portrait, circa 1925
The Metropolitan Business College began in 1889 as a small private business school called the Seattle Business College. The school was started by Josephine Hall and her husband in Seattle's Boston building, where it remained until 1891. Initially, the Seattle Business College taught only shorthand and typing, expanding its curriculum to include Bookkeeping, Accounting, Business Law, English, and Mathematics after…
ID Number:Lib1991.25.45
Date:Circa 1925
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Puget Sound Native man with pipe, circa 1900
Seated in front of a large tree trunk, this Puget Sound Native man holds a pipe in his mouth and looks steadily at the camera. The subject has been identified as Dr. Jack, a Duwamish man who lived on the Cedar River, but this information could not be confirmed.
ID Number:Lib1992.9.2
Date:Circa 1900