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Seattle Tent & Awning Co. employees, Seattle, circa 1925
Seattle Tent and Awning Company was begun by S. W. Robb (1866-1929) when he arrived in Seattle in 1896; in 1919 he sold the business to Thomas H. McGroge. The company advertised as "Manufacturers and Jobbers" of silk and canvas tents and goods for mountaineers, sportsmen, and lumber camps. During WWI the plant was the largest producer of goods in…
ID Number:1980.6877.95
Date:Circa 1925
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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
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Portrait of John and Carrie Denny, Portland, circa 1887
John Bunyan Denny (1862-1913) was the eldest son of early Seattle settlers David Thomas Denny (1832-1903) and Louisa (Boren) Denny (1827-1916). John attended Willamette University law school in Portland, and in 1887 married Carrie V. Palmer (1853-1891), daughter of Rocelia A. Palmer and Alfred Lee Palmer (1835-1914), a prominent Seattle lawyer and real estate investor. Carrie was born in Iowa…
ID Number:1980.6891.14
Date:Circa 1887
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Independence Day parade, Seattle, July 4, 1898
During the Independence Day celebrations in Seattle in 1898, the place of honor in the parade was held by the Fifth Regiment, Canadian Militia. The militia received a standing ovation from the crowd in a "demonstration of Anglo-Saxon unity," likely spurred on by the defeat the previous day of the Spanish Fleet off Santiago Bay, Cuba, by U. S. forces,…
ID Number:1980.6923.16
Date:1898
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John Allan Park and friends, Seattle, circa 1900
In this image John Allen Park (fourth from right) poses with other men on a wooden boardwalk. Park (1863-1932) was born in Illinois to William and Belinda (Knight) Park, who moved to Seattle around 1900 with William's mother, Margaret (Allen) Park, and their daughter Jean. John and his wife, Edith (Beam) Park (1868-1958), granddaughter of Whidby Island pioneer Isaac Neff…
ID Number:1980.6923.129
Date:Circa 1900
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Rehearsal of "The Wayfarer" at Husky Stadium, Seattle, July 1921
In 1921, the Seattle Times organized the "Midsummer Fete," a week-long festival in July that included fireworks displays, dances, a parade of 7,000 members of Elks Lodges, and races between sailors of the U. S. Pacific Fleet, who were anchored in Elliott Bay for the event. In addition, a massive staging was presented of "The Wayfarer," a religious work combining…
ID Number:1980.7005.5
Date:1923
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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
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Reunion of students and teachers of Denny School, Seattle, June 24, 1928
Seattle grew fast in the 1880s. Denny School was overcrowded from the day it opened in 1884 in what was then Seattle's north end. Two wings were soon added to hold additional classrooms. The west wing was torn down in 1911 when part of Denny Hill was regraded. Classes continued in the rest of the building until 1928, when it…
ID Number:1980.7039.2
Date:1928
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Rev. Robert E. Dunlap's letter from Mayor J.T. Ronald, October 3, 1893
Judge J. T. Ronald served the Seattle community for well over sixty years. He and his wife, Rhoda, moved to Seattle in 1882 with Ronald beginning his long law career the next year when appointed King County Deputy District Attorney. Ronald served as U.S. District Attorney of King, Kitsap, and Snohomish counties, was Seattle mayor in 1892, and had a…
ID Number:1980.7046.1
Date:1893
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Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1967
In March 1915, local lumber baron and businessman C. D. Stimson leased lots on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Pike Street to the newly formed Coliseum Company to build an elegant theater designed specifically for movies, then called photoplays. The Coliseum remained Seattle's premier movie house into the 1980s, when it lost out to suburban multiplexes. It closed…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.11.1
Date:Circa 1967