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Waterfront and downtown, Seattle, 1888
Signs in image: Our House. Clothiers. Safe Deposit Co. Gordon Hardware Co. Seattle Hardware Co. The Arcade - W.P. Boyd & Co. Drugs - [Asten?] & Co. Columbia House [...]. San Francisco Store - Dry Goods. St. Elmo Hotel. New England Hotel. Live Stable.Caption on mount: Peiser - 817 and 819 Second Street, Seattle, W.T.Caption on verso: First-class Work Guaranteed,…
ID Number:SHS7637
Date:1888
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Mount Rainier and Lake Washington, circa 1900
When the weather is clear, Mount Rainier dominates the scenery in the central Puget Sound region. This photograph, taken by Seattle photographer George Braas, shows Mount Rainier over Lake Washington. The photograph was probably taken around 1900 from Seattle's Madrona district, looking southeast across the lake. Seward Park is visible on the left. The elevation of Mount Rainier written on…
ID Number:SHS7644
Date:1900
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West Spokane Street wooden trestle bridge, Seattle, February 27, 1918
From 1902 to 1917, three temporary wooden bridges were built over the west water way of the Duwamish River, connecting Harbor Island to West Seattle (annexed by Seattle in 1907). By 1924 a permanent steel low-level bascule bridge, West Spokane Street Bridge No. 1 (North), had been built and was in use until 1978.This west-facing view shows one of the…
ID Number:SHS8645
Date:1918
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Denny Way sewer outfall into Puget Sound, Seattle, May 12, 1913
Prior to 1890, Seattle relied on a haphazard assortment of sewers and cesspools that, at best, drained into surrounding lakes and salt water. Faced with recurring threats of waterborne diseases including typhoid and cholera, City Engineer Benezette Williams designed the Seattle's first centralized combined sewage system plan in 1891. This plan sought to remove as much city sewage as possible…
ID Number:SHS8888
Date:1913
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Alder Street sewer outfall into Lake Washington, June 19, 1917
Prior to 1890, Seattle relied on a haphazard assortment of sewers and cesspools that, at best, drained into surrounding lakes and salt water. Faced with recurring threats of waterborne diseases including typhoid and cholera, City Engineer Benezette Williams designed the Seattle's first centralized combined sewage system plan in 1891. This plan sought to remove as much city sewage as possible…
ID Number:SHS8917
Date:1917
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Members of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, circa 1904
The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce was founded on April 17, 1882, by a group of 26 business and community leaders, to devise a way to win a $12,000 annual mail route to Alaska over a competing San Francisco steamship company. The Chamber's first decade was dominated by the fight to obtain a railroad for Seattle. Chamber founders Thomas Burke,…
ID Number:SHS9796
Date:Circa 1904
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A Puget Sound salmon catch, circa 1900
The salmon canning industry started in the late 1860s along the Columbia River. By the 1890s, the fishing ground and market had shifted to Puget Sound. Seattle was the home base of the salmon fishing fleet for many years. In this photo, taken around 1900, workers unload salmon from barges at a Seattle cannery wharf south of downtown.
ID Number:SHS10593
Date:Circa 1900
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SS Pacific, SS San Salvador, and bark Harriet Hunt docked at Yesler's Wharf, Seattle, 1875
Seattle Pioneer Henry Leiter Yesler (1810-1892) built a wharf in 1854 at the foot of Mill Street (now Yesler Way). A makeshift affair at first that would eventually extend nearly 1,000 feet into Elliott Bay, it was built next to the steam sawmill he built two years prior. This pier was the center of local maritime commerce until it was…
ID Number:SHS11765
Date:1875
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Waterfront of Port Blakely, Washington, circa 1885
Captain William Renton recognized that Blakely Harbor, on Bainbridge Island, was an ideal site for a sawmill. In 1863, he founded the town of Port Blakely. By 1882, the Port Blakely Mill Company was one of the three largest lumber producers in Puget Sound. This photo, probably taken in the 1880s, shows lumber ships and floating logs at the Port…
ID Number:SHS12507
Date:Circa 1885
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Pilchuck Julia, Snohomish, 1915
The Snohomish (written Sduhubš in their language) are a Coast Salish people who have lived along the Snohomish River since time immemorial. Their largest village was Hibulb, near the mouth of the river in what is now Everett. Like their other Coast Salish neighbors, the Snohomish used dugout canoes to travel along rivers and around Puget Sound. Salmon fishing was…
ID Number:SHS12888
Date:1915