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Image of Seattle player batting during game in Dugdale Park, Seattle, circa 1920
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Seattle player batting during game in Dugdale Park, Seattle, circa 1920

D.E. Dugdale owned the Seattle Giants from 1889 to 1920 and organized the Northwest League. His baseball field, Dugdale Park, was located at Rainier and McClellan. Here, a player from either the Seattle Giants (1910-1920) or the Seattle Indians (1922-1937) team swings at a pitch in Dugdale Park. Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle BB Opening Game.Webster & Stevens number: 64933Caption information…
ID Number:1983.10.7114.1
Date:Circa 1920
Image of Curtain at Grand Theater, Seattle, circa 1905
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Curtain at Grand Theater, Seattle, circa 1905

Most likely, the Grand Theater referred to by the photographers was the Grand Opera House, which was located at 217 Cherry Street. Sample of advertisements in image: Cody Detective Agency and Merchants Patrol Service. After the Show Let Us Go to Tien Sien Lo - Finest Chinese Restaurant and Chop Suey House on the Coast. You Are Only One of…
ID Number:1983.10.7474.2
Date:Circa 1905
Image of Second Avenue from James Street, Seattle, circa 1905
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Second Avenue from James Street, Seattle, circa 1905

Signs in image: Butler. [...unst] Cigars. Hotel Savoy. Empire Building. Thompson's Cafe. Watches & [Jewelry]. Melhorn [...]. [Alexander?] [Bald...] - Marine & Fire Insurance. Bartell Drug Co. Oriental Bldg. A.H. Rankin M.D. Mais Paper Wrapper - [Ob...] [Mouthpiec...]. Foster & Kleiser Signs. Chinese Cafe - Chop Suey, Noodles. Money to Loan - [...] Stoddard Loan Office. Diamonds Watches Jewelry Bought…
ID Number:1983.10.7495.1
Date:Circa 1905
Image of Coliseum Theatre on a snowy night, Seattle, February 1916
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Coliseum Theatre on a snowy night, Seattle, February 1916

By 1915, Seattle's downtown commercial core was booming. In March 1915, local lumber baron and businessman C. D. Stimson leased lots on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Pike Street to the newly-formed Coliseum Company to build a theater designed specifically for movies, then called photoplays. The Coliseum Photo Playhouse was designed by noted theater architect B. Marcus Priteca,…
ID Number:1983.10.8590
Date:1916
Image of Pike Place Market from Western Avenue, Seattle, circa 1915
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Pike Place Market from Western Avenue, Seattle, circa 1915

Seattle's Public Market or "Pike Place Market" opened in 1907 on the edge of a steep hill and over the years has grown to incorporate several lower levels of the original building as well as several additional buildings. A local preservation movement in 1971 established the seven-acre Pike Place Market Historical District which continues to protect the physical and social…
ID Number:1983.10.10173
Date:Circa 1915
Image of Fisher Flouring Mills on Harbor Island, Seattle, 1917
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Fisher Flouring Mills on Harbor Island, Seattle, 1917

In 1911, brothers O. D. Fisher and O. W. Fisher began milling flour at the Fisher Flouring Mills on Seattle's Harbor Island in Elliott Bay. The grain silo and milling complex was one of the first facilities built on the artificial island after the island's completion in 1909. In 2001, Fisher sold the mill to Pendleton Flour Mills. The mill…
ID Number:1983.10.10416.2
Date:1917
Image of Fisher Flouring Mills on Harbor Island, Seattle, circa 1915
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Fisher Flouring Mills on Harbor Island, Seattle, circa 1915

In 1911, brothers O. D. Fisher and O. W. Fisher began milling flour at the Fisher Flouring Mills on Seattle's Harbor Island in Elliott Bay. The grain silo and milling complex was one of the first facilities built on the artificial island after the island's completion in 1909. In 2001, Fisher sold the mill to Pendleton Flour Mills, which closed…
ID Number:1983.10.10459
Date:Circa 1915
Image of Elevator and storage bunker at Seattle Lighting Co. plant , Seattle, circa 1918
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Elevator and storage bunker at Seattle Lighting Co. plant , Seattle, circa 1918

The Seattle Lighting Company, which was the gas company for Seattle, opened a nine-acre plant on the north shore of Lake Union in 1905-06. Huge quantities of coal arrived in railroad cars and fueled the ovens that produced gas and coke, supplying Seattle with lights and home heating. This photograph looks towards Queen Anne and shows a portion of the…
ID Number:1983.10.10656.3
Date:Circa 1918
Image of Trixie Friganza in sidecar of Harley-Davidson  motorcycle, Seattle, 1917
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Trixie Friganza in sidecar of Harley-Davidson motorcycle, Seattle, 1917

Trixie Friganza (1870-1955) was an American actress working in vaudeville, theater, and film. When Friganza's work brought her to Seattle in 1917, H.D. Taintor of the Hirsch Cycle Company, a Harley-Davidson distributor, offered her a trip around Seattle in the sidecar of the new 1918 Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Taintor had heard that Friganza once said that she would prefer to be…
ID Number:1983.10.12263
Date:1918
Image of Yellow cabs drivers posing in Volunteer Park, Seattle, 1947
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Yellow cabs drivers posing in Volunteer Park, Seattle, 1947

This image shows 31 Yellow Cab Company drivers standing with their taxi cabs in Seattle's Volunteer Park, in front the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) building (now the Asian Art Museum). In a 1947 Seattle Times advertisement, Yellow Cabs described the "man at the wheel" as "apt to be a family man...the sort of person you'd like for a neighbor. He's…
ID Number:1983.10.16437.1
Date:1947
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