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Port Blakely Mill after fire, circa 1907
Captain William Renton founded the first Port Blakely mill in 1864 on Bainbridge Island's Blakely Harbor. The mill burned down and was rebuilt in 1888. This mill too burned down and was rebuilt in 1907. In 1924 the mill closed permanently and was demolished as a result of a decline in the lumber market. Caption information source: Price, Andrew Jr.…
ID Number:1977.6486.63
Date:Circa 1907
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Great Seattle Fire at 1st and Union, June 6, 1889
The Great Fire of June 6, 1889, was a significant turning point in Seattle's history and changed both the physical and political landscapes of the city. The fire started at 2:30 p.m. in a paint and woodwork shop at Front and Madison and over the course of the next 18 hours swept a southward across 100 acres of Seattle's business…
ID Number:1977.6487.7
Date:1889
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Pacific Coast Steamship Company piers with Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad passenger depot and team tracks, Seattle, circa 1904
Pier B was located on the waterfront between Main and Jackson Streets. The Pacific Coast Company was organized in 1897, and comprised several existing organizations, most notably the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., Pacific Coast Coal Co. and the Pacific Coast Railway. The Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad, originally the Seattle & Walla Walla, became part of the Pacific Coast Railway…
ID Number:1978.6585.2
Date:Circa 1904
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Markus and Albert Mayer jewelry store in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, 1898
Soon after striking gold on the banks of the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory, brothers Albert Mayer (1871-1929) and Markus Mayer (1877-1950) established a watch and jewelry making business in Dawson City. Their older brother, Joseph Mayer (1868-1937), started Joseph Mayer Bros. in Seattle, which began by selling souvenir spoons, flatware, and wholesale jewelry, and grew into a major…
ID Number:1979.6792.1
Date:1898
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The start of the Great Seattle Fire, June 6, 1889
The Great Fire of June 6, 1889, was a significant turning point in Seattle's history and changed both the physical and political landscapes of the city. The fire started at 2:30 p.m. in a paint and woodwork shop at Front Street (now First Avenue) and Madison Street and over the course of the next 18 hours swept a southward across…
ID Number:1979.6815.3
Date:1889
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Van de Kamp's Bakery windmill-shaped building on Queen Anne hill, Seattle, circa 1930
Van de Kamp's was founded in 1915 by Theodore Van de Kamp and Lawrence L. Frank, beginning as a potato chip stand in downtown Los Angeles. The first retail bakery store opened in 1921, in a building designed in the shape of a windmill, complete with rotating arms. The Van de Kamp's Holland Dutch Bakery chain of bakeries and coffee…
ID Number:1980.6877.92
Date:Circa 1930
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Construction of First Baptist Church's second building, Seattle, October 12, 1910
Seattle First Baptist Church was organized in 1869 by 11 men and women on a lot donated by Elizabeth (Jones) Holgate (1796-1880), a widow who had lived in Seattle since at least 1856. The wooden church was built on the east side of Fourth Avenue, between Cherry Street and James Street. The building was abandoned after 1908 when regrading of…
ID Number:1980.6882.3
Date:1910
Cartographic material
Pettit's Historical Map of Seattle, 1913
This historical map was compiled by Benjamin W. Pettit (1867-1944), a banker who arrived in Seattle from Illinois in 1889 and continued in banking until his retirement from First National Bank in 1941. An amateur photographer and historian, Pettit collected slides and gave presentations on the changes he saw in Seattle since his arrival.This map documents sites and land claims…
ID Number:1980.6923.8
Date:1913
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Seattle waterfront from Elliott Bay, circa 1910
This image, looking east from Elliott Bay, features the working docks of Seattle's waterfront. Prior to the Great Fire in 1889 the piers had generally been constructed perpendicular to the waterfront. They were rebuilt according to the northeast-southwest angle, prescribed by City Engineer Reginald Thomson and Assistant City Engineer George Cotterill in the 1897 tidelands replat, which allowed more ships…
ID Number:1980.6923.96
Date:Circa 1910
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Passengers on board the ship Patterson, Seattle, October 16, 1917
Born in Georgia, cartographer Clifford Gordon Quillian (1880-1948) first came to Seattle in 1907. He married Cora Elizabeth Armstrong (1888-1957) in 1912, served with the U.S. Navy in the Philippines, WWI, and WWII, was the commander of various ships in the United States Coast Guard and Geodesic Survey, and was a chartered life-insurance underwriter.In this image, a group of passengers…
ID Number:1980.7038.302
Date:1917