3379 results for: Seattle Photographic Co.
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Motor yacht "Sapphire Sea" with passengers, circa 1955
The Blanchard Boat Company was one of the leading yacht builders of Seattle. Founded by N.J. (Norman J.) Blanchard (1885-1954) in 1905, the company built nearly 2,000 boats over its 64-year history, including commercial ships, classic motor cruisers and sailing yachts, some of which are still in use today. Following N.J.'s death in 1954, his son Norman C. Blanchard (1911-2009)…
ID Number:1989.89.353
Date:Circa 1955
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Cabin on motor yacht "Gadget," bulit by Blanchard Boat Co., Seattle, 1929
The Blanchard Boat Company was one of the leading yacht builders of Seattle. Founded by N.J. (Norman J.) Blanchard (1885-1954) in 1905, the company built nearly 2,000 boats over its 64-year history, including commercial ships, classic motor cruisers and sailing yachts, some of which are still in use today. Following N.J.'s death in 1954, his son Norman C. Blanchard (1911-2009)…
ID Number:1989.89.391
Date:1929
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Norm Blanchard and the Sir Tom, June 21, 1921
Ten-year-old Norman C. Blanchard stands in front of the sailboat Sir Tom at the Blanchard yard in Wallingford. Designed by Ted Geary and built by N.J. Blanchard and his partners, the sloop was commissioned by a syndicate of ten Seattle businessmen to compete for the Sir Thomas Lipton Perpetual Challenge Cup. The Sir Tom had a long and successful racing…
ID Number:1989.89.464
Date:1921
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N.J. Blanchard and others at Johnson Bros. & Blanchard boatyard, Georgetown, circa 1912
The Blanchard Boat Company was one of the leading yacht builders of Seattle. Founded by N.J. (Norman J.) Blanchard (1885-1954) in 1905, the company built nearly 2,000 boats over its 64-year history, including commercial ships, classic motor cruisers and sailing yachts, some of which are still in use today. Following N.J.'s death in 1954, his son Norman C. Blanchard (1911-2009)…
ID Number:1989.89.470
Date:Circa 1912
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Encampment of Indigenous people on Ballast Island at the Seattle waterfront, circa 1900
In 1865 the Board of Trustees of Seattle passed Ordinance No. 5 banning Indigenous people from living in the city unless they worked for a non-Indigenous resident and lived on their employer's property. Despite this attempt to enforce separation between Indigenous people and the settlers, Seattle depended on Indigenous people. Settlers relied on Native people for domestic work and for…
ID Number:1990.45.14
Date:Circa 1900
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Arthur and Rolland Denny standing in front of the Dexter Horton Bank, Seattle, circa 1880
This photo of Arthur Denny and Rolland Herschel Denny in front of Dexter Horton Bank in Seattle is included in a cartes de visite album that was owned by Margaret Lenora Denny. It includes additional portraits which are probably of people in Washington, D.C. from when Arthur Denny served there as a representative for Washington Territory. Seattle pioneer Arthur Armstrong…
ID Number:1990.45.30.1
Date:Circa 1880
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Mary Louise Frye Fortson Kirk, circa 1898
Mary Louise "Minnie" (Frye) Fortson Kirk was born Feb. 6, 1864 in Seattle to George Frederick Frye and Louisa Catherine Denny Frye (daughter of Seattle pioneer Arthur Armstrong Denny). Minnie married George Haley Fortson on March 4, 1896, in Seattle, but he was killed in the Philippines during the Philippine-American War on March 26, 1899. In 1924, Minnie married Dr.…
ID Number:1990.45.36
Date:Circa 1898
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Private bath in the Frye Hotel, Seattle, circa 1940
Stamped on back: Hotel Frye, Seattle, Wash.
circa 1940
In 1911 when George Frederick Frye (1833-1912) opened his eleven-story Louisa C. Frye Hotel near Pioneer Square, it was considered Seattle’s finest. The ornate Italian Renaissance design had an interior finish of mahogany and marble. It contained 350 deluxe rooms with exterior window views, 200 with private baths. President Theodore Roosevelt was a guest at the grand opening. Shortly after…
ID Number:1990.45.44
Date:Circa 1940
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Guest room with two beds, Frye Hotel, Seattle, circa 1912
In 1911 when George Frederick Frye (1833-1912) opened his eleven-story Louisa C. Frye Hotel near Pioneer Square, it was considered Seattle’s finest. The ornate Italian Renaissance design had an interior finish of mahogany and marble. It contained 350 deluxe rooms with exterior window views, 200 with private baths. President Theodore Roosevelt was a guest at the grand opening. Shortly after…
ID Number:1990.45.46
Date:Circa 1912
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Guest room with one bed, Frye Hotel, Seattle, circa 1923
In 1911 when George Frederick Frye (1833-1912) opened his eleven-story Louisa C. Frye Hotel near Pioneer Square, it was considered Seattle’s finest. The ornate Italian Renaissance design had an interior finish of mahogany and marble. It contained 350 deluxe rooms with exterior window views, 200 with private baths. President Theodore Roosevelt was a guest at the grand opening. Shortly after…
ID Number:1990.45.49
Date:Circa 1923