650 results for: Lake Washington
Photograph
Logs in Montlake canal, Seattle, 1908
Before the building of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, a small canal connected Lake Washington with Lake Union's Portage Bay. This photo shows a man guiding logs down the canal in the Montlake area. Handwritten on verso: 1908 - Portage canal - Portage log canal - parallel to and south of present Mountlake [sic] canal.
ID Number:1974.5868.256
Date:1908
Photograph
Washington Park, Seattle, May 2, 1908
This photo looks out from Washington Park in Capitol Hill towards what would become the Lake Washington Ship Canal. Handwritten on verso: May 2, 1908. Washington Park on north east slope of Capitol Hill. Mountlake [sic] Cut site in distance. Before canal was constructed.
ID Number:1974.5868.257
Date:1908
Photograph
Logs in Montlake canal, Seattle, 1906
Before the building of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, a small canal connected Lake Washington with Lake Union's Portage Bay. This photo shows logs entering the Lake Washington end of the canal. Embossed on mount: HarwoodHandwritten on verso: 1906 - Portage canal - Lake Wash. to Union Bay (before Ship Canal)
ID Number:1974.5868.407
Date:1906
Photograph
Washington Park Boulevard, Seattle, 1906
This view looks out over Washington Park Boulevard to Lake Union and Portage Bay below. Handwritten on verso: 1906 - Boulevard, Lk Union, Portage and University.
ID Number:1974.5868.532
Date:1906
Photograph
Fugitive flamingo wading in Lake Washington Ship Canal, Seattle, October 16, 1960
In October of 1960 the whereabouts of a flamingo escaped from Woodland Park Zoo was front page news around Puget Sound. The flamingo escaped on October 12 after a flight from his open enclosure at the zoo. Acting park superintendent, Edward J. Johnson, said the flamingo was likely eating well and its dense feathers would allow it to easily survive…
ID Number:1974.5887.1
Date:1960
Ephemera
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
Photograph
Portrait of gardener Ernest Fabi, Seattle, circa 1930
Ernest A. Fabi (1876-1939) was a well-known Seattle gardener and landscape architect. In 1898 he served during the Spanish American War with the 7th Illinois Infantry, Company I. Ernest married Jennie A Backe (1884-) in 1912, and he used their home and yard on Queen Anne Hill to display his many unique species of flowers and trees. There are magnolia…
ID Number:1976.6304.20
Date:Circa 1930
Postcard
Storm on Lake Washington, circa 1909
This color postcard features sailboats during a storm on Lake Washington. Publisher's number: 1357Postmarked February 25, 1909, from Coupeville, Wash.; one-cent stamp.Handwritten on verso: Coupeville, Feb 24th. My dear Anna - Received your card. Was glad to hear John was better than at auntie [Cris...]. It is still raining. [...] brother Tom arrived last Sat. looks old. I would not…
ID Number:1976.6362.100
Date:Circa 1909
Postcard
Greenhouses in the snow, Bryn Mawr, Washington, circa 1910
In 1907, A.T. Wilson bought 12 acres of land on Grand Avenue (now 87th Avenue South) in Bryn Mawr, now part of Renton, Washington. The greenhouse business flourished at this location through the 20th century under the ownership of Wilson, then Stuber & Richardson, and later Hank Komatsu.This photographic postcard, made sometime between 1907 and 1912, shows the Bryn Mawr…
ID Number:1976.6377.3
Date:Circa 1910
Cartographic material
Township No 25 North Range No 3 East and Township No 25 North Range No 4 East, 1864
This hand drawn map shows early land ownership for King County Township No 25 North Range No. 4 East and Range No. 3 East, providing names and property boundaries of original purchasers and claimants. These boundaries encompass what is now known as the First Hill neighborhood at the Southernmost point, up to North 85th, just above the present-day Green Lake…
ID Number:1976.6389A.2
Date:1864