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U. S. Army and Navy boats docked at the Olson & Winge Marine Works yard, Seattle, circa 1944
Olson & Winge Marine Works was formed in 1941 by Oscar E. Olson (b. 1882) and Carl B. Winge (1891-1956). The two met in 1910 while working for King and Winge Shipbuilding Company, started in 1899 by Carl's uncle, Albert M. Winge (1868-1916), and his partner Thomas J. King (1843–1925). From around 1941 to 1944, the Olson & Winge yard…
ID Number:1972.5503.103
Date:Circa 1944
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Panoramic view of U. S. Army and Navy boats docked at the Olson & Winge Marine Works yard, Seattle, circa 1944
Olson & Winge Marine Works was formed in 1941 by Oscar E. Olson (b. 1882) and Carl B. Winge (1891-1956). The two met in 1910 while working for King and Winge Shipbuilding Company, started in 1899 by Carl's uncle, Albert M. Winge (1868-1916), and his partner Thomas J. King (1843–1925). From around 1941 to 1944, the Olson & Winge yard…
ID Number:1972.5503.109a
Date:Circa 1944
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U.S. Army and Navy boats docked at the Olson & Winge Marine Works yard, Seattle, August 1944
Olson & Winge Marine Works was formed in 1941 by Oscar E. Olson (b. 1882) and Carl B. Winge (1891-1956). The two met in 1910 while working for King and Winge Shipbuilding Company, started in 1899 by Carl's uncle, Albert M. Winge (1868-1916), and his partner Thomas J. King (1843–1925). From around 1941 to 1944, the Olson & Winge yard…
ID Number:1972.5503.127
Date:1944
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Pilot boat CGR-2469 in the water at the Olson & Winge Marine Works, Seattle, 1944
Coast Guard pilot boat CGR-2469 came to the Olson & Winge Marine Works yard as the Columbia for conversion during World War II. She had been built in 1914 as the King & Winge, one of the most famous ships ever built in Seattle. Designed by Albert Winge, she was built by the King and Winge Shipbuilding Company, intended as…
ID Number:1972.5503.141
Date:1944
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Elliott Bay Shipbuilding Company on Harbor Island, Seattle, circa 1918
Elliott Bay Shipbuilding Company was located on Harbor Island in the Duwamish waterway in Seattle, at 1710 South Spokane Street. This view of the shipyard was taken between 1918-1919, and is facing northwest from Harbor Island so that the West Waterway is visible, with West Seattle beyond it in the distance.
ID Number:1972.5503.161.1
Date:Circa 1918
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Cooper and Levy calendar, Seattle, 1896
In 1892, Isaac Cooper (b. 1861) and his brother-in-law Louis Levy (1864-1947) founded Cooper & Levy, a Seattle retail and mail-order business. The company was particularly known for selling groceries and other supplies to miners heading north to Alaska and the Yukon. A decade later, they sold the prosperous business to local department store The Bon Marche. Both men were…
ID Number:1972.5567.1
Date:1896
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Rhodes Bros. Co. letter, September 25, 1919
Rhodes Brothers Company was a department store chain that started in 1892 as a coffee shop in Tacoma by Albert, William, Henry, and Charles Rhodes. In 1903, the brothers shifted into the department store business and expanded the business significantly. At one time there were signs on highways in Washington that said, "All roads lead to Rhodes," giving the number…
ID Number:1973.5644.10
Date:1919
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Liberty Theatre souvenir, Seattle, October 27, 1914
Seattle's Liberty Theatre opened at First Avenue and Pike Street in 1914, intending to be "a theatre which for perfection of appointment, convenience and luxuriousness has no equal this side of Chicago." The exterior of the building featured a forty-foot-high Statue of Liberty, illuminated by 1,200 lamps of eight different colors. When it was built, the movie theater's concave screen…
ID Number:1973.5659.1
Date:1914
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Day, Latimer, & Wood business card, circa 1885
Benjamin Franklin Day (1834-1904) was born in Ohio and came to Seattle in 1880, buying a 160-acre farm north of Lake Union in what is now the Fremont neighborhood. A real estate speculator and investor, Mr. Day is remembered for having donated money in 1889, then land in 1891, to the Seattle School District. In 1892, the district built and…
ID Number:1974.5903.58
Date:Circa 1885
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Manning & Byrne Undertakers business card, circa 1912
Joseph R. Manning was born and educated in New Haven, Connecticut. He held a position on the city council in New Haven, and was appointed health commissioner. Manning moved to Seattle in 1905, first working in the county auditor's office, and as superintendent of the King County Building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, before establishing an undertaking business in around 1911.…
ID Number:1974.5903.59a
Date:Circa 1912