159 results for: Lake Washington Ship Canal
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Schertzer Brothers' boathouse and boat building company, circa 1909
Between 1901 and 1917, William and Frank Schertzer operated a boathouse and boat building company on the shores of Lake Washington at Madrona Park. By 1918, the company had moved, possibly because the level of the lake dropped nine or more feet with the opening of the Lake Washington Ship Canal.This photo, taken sometime between 1902 and 1917, shows the…
ID Number:1983.10.7869
Date:Circa 1909
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L'Amourita Apartments, circa 1925
During the 1920s, a number of Seattle architects designed and built homes and apartment buildings in the Mission Revival style. These buildings had the stucco walls, red tile roofs, and lines of Spanish-style buildings seen in southern California.This photo shows the Mission Revival L'Amourita Apartments on a rainy day in the 1920s. The building still stands on Franklin Avenue East,…
ID Number:1983.10.8863.1
Date:Circa 1925
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Montlake Cut under construction, Seattle, circa 1914
The Lake Washington Ship Canal followed the routes of earlier canals and streams which connected Lake Washington, Lake Union, and Salmon Bay. This photo shows the Montlake Cut between Portage Bay, shown in the background, and Union Bay in about 1914, about three years after construction started. A steam shovel is excavating the hillside; the tracks were for a train…
ID Number:1983.10.8865
Date:Circa 1914
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Stone Avenue Bridge under construction, Seattle, circa 1911
Before the Lake Washington Ship Canal was built, a temporary bridge on Stone Avenue carried traffic across to Fremont. Most of the bridge, which opened in 1911, consisted of a wooden roadway on a trestle. The short metal span was just large enough to let logs and small boats pass through. Stone Avenue is now called Stone Way. Handwritten on…
ID Number:1983.10.9146
Date:Circa 1911
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Lake Washington Ship Canal spillway near Fremont, Seattle, circa 1911
During the building of the Lake Washington Ship Canal in Seattle, temporary dams were built at various places to control the water level. This photo shows the spillway of a temporary dam at the western end of Lake Union, near Fremont. Logs for a nearby lumber mill float behind the dam. The Stone Way Bridge is under construction in the…
ID Number:1983.10.9151
Date:Circa 1911
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Fremont district, circa 1910
At the start of the twentieth century, Seattle's Fremont area had lumber mills and a commercial district. Before the Lake Washington Ship Canal was built, Fremont's Canal Street ran along a small canal used for moving logs to nearby mills. Railroad tracks ran along the canal.This photo, taken around 1910, shows the building of a retaining wall along Canal Street…
ID Number:1983.10.9152
Date:Circa 1910
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Montlake canal, Seattle, circa 1911
Before the building of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, a small canal connected Lake Washington with Lake Union's Portage Bay. This photo, taken around 1911, shows the canal in the Montlake area and a dam which controlled the water level. Handwritten on sleeve: Lake Wash. Canal.Photographer's Reference Number: 19269
ID Number:1983.10.9158
Date:Circa 1911
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Lake Washington canal at Montlake, circa 1911
Before the building of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, a small canal connected Lake Washington with Lake Union's Portage Bay. This photo, taken around 1911, shows the canal in the Montlake area and a dam which controlled the water level. Webster Point, at Laurelhurst, is in the distant left. Webster & Stevens number: 19272
ID Number:1983.10.9159
Date:Circa 1911
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Construction of Great Northern Railway's Ballard Bridge, circa 1913
The Great Northern Railway built a new railway bridge at Ballard in about 1913, during the construction of the Lake Washington Ship Canal. This bridge is still in use in the 2020s, and is known as the Salmon Bay Bridge. The span stays open for canal traffic unless a train is coming.This photo shows the Great Northern Railway bridge during…
ID Number:1983.10.9734.1
Date:Circa 1913
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Building the locks at Ballard, circa 1915
Ground was broken for the Lake Washington Ship Canal locks in 1911, and the first concrete was poured for the lock chambers in 1913. This photo, taken between 1913 and 1916, shows the construction of the thick concrete lock walls. Concrete is being moved along the track in huge buckets. Workmen are backfilling the space between the concrete walls and…
ID Number:1983.10.9778
Date:Circa 1915