179 results for: Curtis
Photograph
Aerial of Hollywood Chicken Farm, Woodinville, 1940
Hollywood Farm, in Woodinville, was built by the Frederick Stimson family. They used it as a weekend retreat and summer home. Milk and cream from the farm's prize-winning Holstein dairy herd was sent to Seattle by railroad. Seattleites visited by train and bought cream, ice cream, and sausages at the farm's ice cream parlor.This aerial photo is part of a…
ID Number:1974.5923.361.3
Date:1940
Photograph
Toy shop display, Seattle, circa 1940
This photo of an unnamed toy shop display is part of a collection from McBride and Anderson photographers. Born in 1863, Ella McBride began working in the photography field in 1909 when she managed the Edward Curtis Studio. She opened her own studio in 1917 with Wayne Albee. Albee moved to San Diego in 1925, and McBride continued to operate…
ID Number:1974.5923.363
Date:Circa 1940
Photograph
Toy shop display, Seattle, circa 1940
This photo of an unnamed toy shop display is part of a collection from McBride and Anderson photographers. Born in 1863, Ella McBride began working in the photography field in 1909 when she managed the Edward Curtis Studio. She opened her own studio in 1917 with Wayne Albee. Albee moved to San Diego in 1925, and McBride continued to operate…
ID Number:1974.5923.364
Date:Circa 1940
Photograph
Junior League members with children at Sacred Heart Orphanage, Seattle, 1938
In 1903, Reverend Mother Francesca Xaviera Cabrini, founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, arrived in Seattle. She was sent by the Pope Leo XII to help poor Italians immigrants settling on the continent. On Beacon Hill, a working-class Italian neighborhood, she set up the Sacred Heart Orphanage and a church. Due to Seattle's regrading, the orphanage moved…
ID Number:1974.5923.365.2
Date:1938
Photograph
Blethen child, Seattle, circa 1935
The Seattle Times started as the Seattle Press-Times in 1891. Seattle attorney Alden J. Blethen bought the newspaper in 1896 and renamed it the Seattle Daily Times. The Blethen family continues to own the paper today. This photo of an unnamed Blethen child in the mid-1930s is part of a collection from McBride and Anderson photographers. Born in 1863, Ella…
ID Number:1974.5923.366
Date:Circa 1935
Photograph
Horse-drawn wagon in front of store, probably in Seattle, circa 1915
This photo of an unnamed store or house with a horse and buggy in front is a copy negative and part of a collection from McBride and Anderson photographers. Born in 1863, Ella McBride began working in the photography field in 1909 when she managed the Edward Curtis Studio. She opened her own studio in 1917 with Wayne Albee. Albee…
ID Number:1974.5923.369.2
Date:Circa 1915
Photograph
Waterfront from Elliott Bay, Seattle, circa 1920
This photo of the Seattle waterfront is a copy negative and part of a collection from McBride and Anderson photographers. Born in 1863, Ella McBride began working in the photography field in 1909 when she managed the Edward Curtis Studio. She opened her own studio in 1917 with Wayne Albee. Albee moved to San Diego in 1925, and McBride continued…
ID Number:1974.5923.372.1
Date:Circa 1920
Photograph
Chief Si'ahl (Chief Seattle) fountain, Seattle, circa 1920
Seattle sculptor James A. Wehn designed this fountain and copper statue of Chief Si'ahl (Chief Seattle) that stands in Tilikum Place at the corner of Denny Way, Cedar Street, and Fifth Avenue. Tilikum is a Chinook term meaning "greeting," and Chief Si'ahl stands with hand raised to welcome the white settlers who landed at Alki Point in 1851. Wehn based…
ID Number:1974.5923.373.2
Date:Circa 1920
Photograph
Roy Chapman Andrews and Wilhelmina Christmas Andrews, Seattle, June 1936
Roy Chapman Andrews (1884-1960) was a naturalist who led expeditions through the Gobi Desert and Mongolia, and later became director of the American Museum of Natural History. He is shown here with this second wife Wilhelmia Christmas Andrews in 1936.This photo is part of a collection from McBride and Anderson photographers. Born in 1863, Ella McBride began working in the…
ID Number:1974.5923.374
Date:1936
Photograph
Paul and Theiline M. Pigott with children, circa 1930
In 1934, Paul Pigott bought back the Pacific Car and Foundry Company, a rail car manufacturing business his father originally started in 1905 but sold to American Car Co. in 1924. He rebuilt the Seattle company with 125 employees into one of the top industrial corporations in the U.S. Under the leadership of his son, Charles M. Pigott, Pacific Car…
ID Number:1974.5923.376
Date:Circa 1930