1892 results for: Washington (State). Office of the Secretary of State
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Machine shop at Moran Brothers shipyard, Seattle, July 4, 1902
In 1901, the Moran Brothers Company shipyard of Seattle won the bid to build one of three battleships for the U. S. Navy. Construction of the ship, named Nebraska, began on July 4, 1902 and the ship was launched on October 7, 1904. Over 1,000 workers helped build the Nebraska, a Virginia-class pre-dreadnought battleship with a beam of 76 feet…
ID Number:1995.49.274.2
Date:1902
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Engine of Ajax Motor Car, Seattle, 1914
The Parker Motor Car Company of Seattle operated an automobile showroom on Broadway from about 1913-1928. Run by Frank Loyal Parker (1884-1954), the company also promoted the Ajax model, which was designed by Frank's brother, Charles Leslie Parker (1882-1959), and manufactured by the Ajax Motors Company, run by another brother, George Clyde Parker (1886-1953). The brothers had moved from Colorado…
ID Number:1995.78.1
Date:1914
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Men sitting in an Ajax Motor Car, Seattle, 1914
The Parker Motor Car Company of Seattle operated an automobile showroom on Broadway from about 1913-1928. Run by Frank Loyal Parker (1884-1954), the company also promoted the Ajax model, which was designed by Frank's brother, Charles Leslie Parker (1882-1959), and manufactured by the Ajax Motors Company, run by another brother, George Clyde Parker (1886-1953). The brothers had moved from Colorado…
ID Number:1995.78.2
Date:1914
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Chassis of Ajax Motor Car, Seattle, 1914
The Parker Motor Car Company of Seattle operated an automobile showroom on Broadway from about 1913-1928. Run by Frank Loyal Parker (1884-1954), the company also promoted the Ajax model, which was designed by Frank's brother, Charles Leslie Parker (1882-1959), and manufactured by the Ajax Motors Company, run by another brother, George Clyde Parker (1886-1953). The brothers had moved from Colorado…
ID Number:1995.78.3
Date:1914
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Moran-Lakeside School mailer, Seattle, 1921
In 1919, Frank G. Moran, founder of the Moran School for Boys on Bainbridge Island, opened an additional boys’ school on Lake Washington in Seattle’s Denny-Blaine district. Named Moran-Lakeside School, it lasted for four years before a series of changes in ownership, name, and location. Today, as Lakeside School, it serves both boys and girls at its campus in North…
ID Number:1996.55.4
Date:1921
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Pacific Car & Foundry brochure for a motorized dump car, ca. 1926
Pacific Car & Foundry produced heavy-duty logging and railway equipment. The motorized, earth-moving dump car featured in the brochure pictured here, operated on rails and was manufactured in Portland, Oregon in 1926. Pacific Car & Foundry continues in operation as PACCAR.
ID Number:1996.55.8
Date:Circa 1926
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The American Plan, December 10, 1919
Associated Industries of Seattle was an organization of local businessmen formed after the General Strike of 1919, which soon became the largest business opposition to the labor movement in Seattle. With 425 members, many of Seattle's leading companies were represented, and the group operated spies throughout the city into 1920. The organization created the "American Plan," first publicized in The…
ID Number:1996.55.14
Date:1919
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Paste-up for Sunny Jim peanut butter ad, circa 1940
Germanus Wilhelm Firnstahl founded Pacific Food Products in 1921 after the family moved to Seattle from Wisconsin. Germanus and his wife Cecilia chose their youngest son Lowell to be the face of Sunny Jim, their new peanut butter brand. Despite his untimely death in 1933 in a football accident, Lowell's image would be synonymous with Sunny Jim until the company…
ID Number:1996.55.23
Date:Circa 1940
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Malmo & Co. Planting Guide, Seattle, 1922
Norwegian immigrant Charles Malmo (1862-1938) established the Malmo Seed and Nursery Company in Seattle in 1893. Malmo propagated nursery stock of ornamental shrubs, which previously had to be imported from Japan, Holland, and England. In the 1920s, Malmo sold seeds and nursery stock from a store at 6th Avenue and Stewart Street at Westlake, and at his Georgetown rhododendron fields…
ID Number:1997.4.51
Date:1922
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Malmo & Co. catalog, Seattle, 1945
Norwegian immigrant Charles Malmo (1862-1938) established the Malmo Seed and Nursery Company in Seattle in 1893. Malmo propagated nursery stock of ornamental shrubs, which previously had to be imported from Japan, Holland, and England. In the 1920s, Malmo sold seeds and nursery stock from a store at 6th Avenue and Stewart Street at Westlake, and at his Georgetown rhododendron fields…
ID Number:1997.4.57
Date:1945