453 results for: Hotel Seattle
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Mayor-Elect George F. Cotterill dinner menu, Seattle, March 15, 1912
George Cotterill was elected Mayor of Seattle in 1912, after working as Assistant City Engineer and holding other public offices. A dinner welcoming Cotterill and other elected city officials was hosted by the New Seattle Chamber of Commerce on March 15, 1912, at the New Washington Hotel. The menu lists the courses to be served at a dinner and is…
ID Number:1980.7025.3
Date:1912
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Warshal's wall mural postcard, circa 1977
Pictured on this postcard is the exterior of Warshal's Sporting Goods, a long-time Seattle outdoor emporium, highlighting a new mural on the South Wall. The mural was co-commissioned by the Seattle Art Commission as part of the Seattle Walls project of the Downtown Seattle Development Association. The mural was designed and painted by artist Fay Jones, whose work has been…
ID Number:1980.7040.2
Date:Circa 1977
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Sinking Ship parking garage, Seattle, circa 1967
For many years, the triangular Hotel Seattle stood in Pioneer Square at the intersection of Yesler Way and James Street, between First and Second Avenues. The hotel was torn down in 1962 to make room for the parking garage shown here. Built on a hillside, the garage’s slanted architecture gave rise to its nickname – “The Sinking Ship”. This image,…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.4.2
Date:Circa 1967
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Businesses at corner of Pine Street and Fourth Avenue, Seattle, 1967
This image shows the intersection of Pine Street and 4th Avenue, looking south along Fourth. Through the 1960s and 70s, proposals were put forward to convert this area into an urban park with retail and commercial spaces, but lawsuits and controversies delayed any work until 1986. The new Westlake Center opened on October 20, 1988, including an indoor mall, an…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.15.1
Date:1967
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View towards Pike Place market, Seattle, circa 1967
This image looks west along Pike Street across 1st Avenue toward the Pike Place Market, with cars stopped at a traffic light while a woman crosses the street. The Public Market Center clock and sign in the center of the image has been an icon of the Market since its installation in 1937. In the late 1960s there was a…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.21.1
Date:Circa 1967
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Rainier Beach trolley on 4th Avenue in deep snow, Seattle, February 2, 1916
The Big Snow of 1916 came after an exceptionally cold January during which about 2 feet of snow had already accumulated. In early February a storm hit which added an additional 21.5 inches of snow in one 24-hour period. The new and heavy snow added ice, trapping trolleys and cars, freezing railroads, halting classroom education and businesses, and collapsing roofs…
ID Number:1980.7166.1.71.2
Date:1916
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Knight Templars castle at City Hall Park, Seattle, July 1925
The Knight Templars, a Masonic order modeled after Medieval Christian Crusaders, held their 36th triennial conclave in Seattle on July 28-30, 1925. More than 10,000 participants from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana flooded into Seattle. The city was decorated with over 150 illuminated Christian crosses, the order's symbol, including a 40-foot lighted cross placed on top of the Olympic Hotel,…
ID Number:1981.7254.6
Date:1925
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August and Anna Brand and children, Seattle, circa 1899
Swedish immigrants August and Anna Brand were married in 1893. In 1903 the Brands purchased a hotel on First Hill in Seattle, which they named the Kalmar after Anna's home town in Sweden. The children here are most likely Garfield, born around 1894, and Viola, born around 1895. Stamped on mount: Rothi, 713 Third Ave., Seattle, Wash.
ID Number:1981.7328.5
Date:Circa 1899
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Anna Brand with son Leonard and other children reading a lesson, Seattle circa 1910
The Brand family ran the Kalmar Hotel on First Hill. They had three children, and the youngest Leonard is shown in this photo with a group of girls in white dresses. Leonard's mother Anna reads with the pupils. Stamped on photo: Johnson, 3rd and Union, Seattle
ID Number:1981.7328.18
Date:Circa 1910
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Anna and Viola Brand with the family dog in backyard, Seattle, 1901
August Niklasson Brand (1862-1950) and Anna Amelia (Erlandson) Brand (1869-1952), were Swedish immigrants who married in 1893 in Seattle. In 1903, August and Anna bought the Western Hotel (aka, The Michigan), which was built around 1880 and located at the corner of Sixth Avenue and James Street. They renamed it the Hotel Kalmar, after Anna's home town in Sweden, and…
ID Number:1981.7328.66
Date:1901