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Image of Denny Clay Company receipt, December 6, 1893
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Denny Clay Company receipt, December 6, 1893

The Denny-Renton Clay and Coal Company (also Denny Clay Company) was founded in 1892 by Seattle pioneer Arthur A. Denny (1822-1899) when he bought out predecessor company Puget Sound Fire Clay Company. Clay's popularity over wood as a building material grew substantially after the Great Seattle Fire in 1889. Raw material was extracted with hydraulic mining equipment from heavy glacial…
ID Number:2018.3.3.78
Date:1893
Image of Wa Chong Company letter, April 20, 1909
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Wa Chong Company letter, April 20, 1909

On December 15, 1868, the man believed to be Seattle's first Chinese immigrant, Chun Ching Hock (1844-1927) opened the Wa Chong Company at the foot of Mill Street (now Yesler Way). The store sold imported Chinese goods, tea, rice, coffee, flour, and fireworks, but the company's most profitable business was labor contracting - recruiting and placing Chinese immigrants in domestic…
ID Number:2018.3.3.91
Date:1909
Image of Bacon & Matheson Forge Company, Catalog No. 21, 1921
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Bacon & Matheson Forge Company, Catalog No. 21, 1921

Bacon & Matheson of Seattle made heavy-duty iron and steel hardware and equipment for the mining, logging, construction, trucking, maritime and shipping industries. The firm's 1921 catalog includes images of their plant at West Lander Street, Seattle, images of small and large products, and equipment in action.
ID Number:2018.3.3.108
Date:1921
Image of Millroy's Pathfinder to Alaska and the Klondyke Gold Fields, circa 1898
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Millroy's Pathfinder to Alaska and the Klondyke Gold Fields, circa 1898

In 1897, in response to the Klondike Gold Rush, Canada passed a number of new laws addressing mining in the Klondike Region. These concerned the management of claims, mining by proxy, and other matters. A map publisher living in Seattle at the time, John James Millroy, Jr. (1862-1908), used government and private surveys to create "Millroy's Map of Alaska and…
ID Number:2018.3.3.112
Date:Circa 1898
Image of Klondike diary of Harry V. McComb, 1897-1900
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Klondike diary of Harry V. McComb, 1897-1900

In 1896 gold was discovered on the banks of the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory, triggering a stampede of prospectors into Seattle and an era of prosperity that lasted for more than a decade. In this diary of his gold rush travels, Harry V. McComb (1866-1947) of Seattle describes trips between Seattle and Alaska, and writes about stops in…
ID Number:2018.3.3.115
Date:1897-1900
Image of Pacific Coast Coal Co. advertisement blotter, circa 1930
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Pacific Coast Coal Co. advertisement blotter, circa 1930

The Pacific Coast Company was organized in 1897, and comprised several existing organizations, most notably the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., Pacific Coast Coal Co. and the Pacific Coast Railway. The Pacific Coast Coal Company oversaw several mines in King County, and by the early 1930s was the top coal producing company in Washington State. This card has a blotter on…
ID Number:2018.3.3.135
Date:Circa 1930
Image of Seattle Tide Lands, Volume Two, index, 1894-1896
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Seattle Tide Lands, Volume Two, index, 1894-1896

Seattle in the late nineteenth century was a rapidly growing city, aided in no small part by the 1883 connection to the rest of the country by the Northern Pacific Railway Company (NPRR). Additionally, the city's population doubled in 1890 from the previous year to 40,000, boosted by the influx of people who saw opportunity in rebuilding after Seattle's Great…
ID Number:2019.3.23.1
Date:1894-1895
Image of Seattle Tide Lands, Volume Two, supplement to page 28, February 1, 1897
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Seattle Tide Lands, Volume Two, supplement to page 28, February 1, 1897

Seattle in the late nineteenth century was a rapidly growing city, aided in no small part by the 1883 connection to the rest of the country by the Northern Pacific Railway Company (NPRR). Additionally, the city's population doubled in 1890 from the previous year to 40,000, boosted by the influx of people who saw opportunity in rebuilding after Seattle's Great…
ID Number:2019.3.23.3
Date:1897
Image of Map of Alaska, Northwest Territories, and British Columbia Showing all the Recent Gold Discoveries, 1898
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Map of Alaska, Northwest Territories, and British Columbia Showing all the Recent Gold Discoveries, 1898

James D. Lowman (1856-1947) and Clarence Hanford (1857-1920) founded Lowman & Hanford Stationery and Printing Company in 1882. The firm advertised as booksellers, stationers, printers, and binders but also sold typewriters, sewing machines, pianos, and organs. Later they expanded into selling photographic equipment and other supplies to people leaving for the gold fields. The company existed in one form or…
ID Number:2019.3.58
Date:1898
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"Anti-Chinese," Seattle Daily Post-Intelligencer, December 6, 1885

Seattle's earliest Chinese residents are believed to have arrived in the early 1860s, and while welcomed at first for the role they played in the region's development, Chinese immigrants were not allowed to vote and were subjected to numerous laws that restricted their rights. In the mid-1870s and early 1880s the national economy took a downturn, increasingly leading white workers…
ID Number:2022.3.3.20.2
Date:1885
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