844 results for: Puget Sound
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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
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Trolley Trips in City and Suburbs on the Car Lines of the Seattle Electric Company, circa 1910
In 1898, the Seattle Electric Company was granted a contract to consolidate the city's 22 separate streetcar lines and private street railways. The SEC was an arm of the national Stone & Webster utility cartel, which also controlled the city's electrical grid and operated the Puget Sound Electric Railway (PSE), an interurban line linking Tacoma, Seattle, and Everett. By 1941,…
ID Number:Lib1992.35.1
Date:Circa 1910
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Group of Indigenous people at Port Townsend, August 30, 1899
Port Townsend, site of a S'Klallam village prior to the arrival of settlers in the mid-1800s, became an important trading center by the end of the 19th century. Indigenous peoples from Canada and the tribes of Puget Sound and the Olympic Peninsula gathered along the shores of Port Townsend Bay to trade and socialize. Many also stopped here on their…
ID Number:Lib1993.1.723
Date:1899
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Group of Makah people under a fly tent at Port Townsend, August 30, 1899
The Makah people of the northwest tip of the Olympic Peninsula refer to themselves as Kwih-dich-chuh-ahtx, which translates roughly to "the people who live by the rocks and seagulls." The early Makah were skilled mariners, using several types of canoes which they carved from western red cedar for various purposes - war, whaling, fishing, sealing, carrying cargo, and long voyages.…
ID Number:Lib1993.1.724
Date:1899
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Indigenous people on the beach at Port Townsend, September 2, 1899
Port Townsend, site of a S'Klallam village prior to the arrival of settlers in the mid-1800s, became an important trading center by the end of the 19th century. Indigenous peoples from Canada and the tribes of Puget Sound and the Olympic Peninsula gathered along the shores of Port Townsend Bay to trade and socialize. Many also stopped here on their…
ID Number:Lib1993.1.754
Date:1899
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Railroad Avenue and Puget Sound Machinery Depot, Seattle, circa 1905
The brothers Clarence and Otto Langstaff were prolific amateur photographers in Seattle. Clarence worked as a carpenter and also spent time at Mt. Rainier as a guide. Otto worked for W.P. Fuller Company as a glazier and was a member of United Glass Union 188. Because most of their photos are not signed, it is often difficult to discern which…
ID Number:Lib1993.8.13
Date:Circa 1905
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Puget Sound at sunset, Seattle, 1967
Photographer Josef Scaylea (1913-2004) worked for 35 years as chief photographer for the Seattle Times, winning over 1000 awards for his photographs highlighting the scenery and people in the Pacific Northwest. He donated a collection of his photographs and photography equipment to MOHAI in 1993.Scaylea often took scenic photos of Puget Sound views, including this view of Shilshole Bay at…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.42
Date:1967
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Log pond at Weyerhaeuser mill, Snoqualmie, 1950
Lumber was one of the Puget Sound's main exports in the 1890s. In 1899, 200,000 board feet of milled lumber left Seattle every day by rail or ship for the eastern United States and various Pacific ports. Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Company began operations in 1917. The company, starting with some houses and a mill store, built a small community atop…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.62
Date:1950
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Sailboat race off Vashon Island, May 1972
Photographer Josef Scaylea (1913-2004) worked for 35 years as chief photographer for the Seattle Times, winning over 1000 awards for his photographs highlighting the scenery and people in the Pacific Northwest. He donated a collection of his photographs and photography equipment to MOHAI in 1993.Scaylea took many photos of boats in Puget Sound, including this one of a sailboat race…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.122
Date:1972