3503 results for: Seattle Photographic Co.
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Machine shop at Moran Brothers shipyard, Seattle, July 4, 1902
In 1901, the Moran Brothers Company shipyard of Seattle won the bid to build one of three battleships for the U. S. Navy. Construction of the ship, named Nebraska, began on July 4, 1902 and the ship was launched on October 7, 1904. Over 1,000 workers helped build the Nebraska, a Virginia-class pre-dreadnought battleship with a beam of 76 feet…
ID Number:1995.49.274.2
Date:1902
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"Seattle in 1865" photo with key to locations, Seattle, 1915
This hand-colored print of an 1865 Curtis & Miller photograph of Seattle was created in 1915 by E. Jenner for the Washington Title Insurance Company. Included in the display is a guide listing some of the landmarks visible in the image. The photograph was taken from about Main Street, looking North along Commercial Street (now First Avenue South). Visible at…
ID Number:1995.50.1
Date:1915
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Engine of Ajax Motor Car, Seattle, 1914
The Parker Motor Car Company of Seattle operated an automobile showroom on Broadway from about 1913-1928. Run by Frank Loyal Parker (1884-1954), the company also promoted the Ajax model, which was designed by Frank's brother, Charles Leslie Parker (1882-1959), and manufactured by the Ajax Motors Company, run by another brother, George Clyde Parker (1886-1953). The brothers had moved from Colorado…
ID Number:1995.78.1
Date:1914
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Men sitting in an Ajax Motor Car, Seattle, 1914
The Parker Motor Car Company of Seattle operated an automobile showroom on Broadway from about 1913-1928. Run by Frank Loyal Parker (1884-1954), the company also promoted the Ajax model, which was designed by Frank's brother, Charles Leslie Parker (1882-1959), and manufactured by the Ajax Motors Company, run by another brother, George Clyde Parker (1886-1953). The brothers had moved from Colorado…
ID Number:1995.78.2
Date:1914
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Chassis of Ajax Motor Car, Seattle, 1914
The Parker Motor Car Company of Seattle operated an automobile showroom on Broadway from about 1913-1928. Run by Frank Loyal Parker (1884-1954), the company also promoted the Ajax model, which was designed by Frank's brother, Charles Leslie Parker (1882-1959), and manufactured by the Ajax Motors Company, run by another brother, George Clyde Parker (1886-1953). The brothers had moved from Colorado…
ID Number:1995.78.3
Date:1914
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Malmo & Company Nursery building, 1925
Norwegian immigrant Charles Malmo (1862-1938) established the Malmo Seed and Nursery Company in Seattle in 1893. Malmo propagated nursery stock of ornamental shrubs, which previously had to be imported from Japan, Holland, and England. In the 1920s, Malmo sold seeds and nursery stock from a store at 6th Avenue and Stewart Street at Westlake, and at his Georgetown rhododendron fields…
ID Number:1997.4.3
Date:1925
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C. Malmo Nursery building, November 3, 1939
Norwegian immigrant Charles Malmo (1862-1938) established the Malmo Seed and Nursery Company in Seattle in 1893. Malmo propagated nursery stock of ornamental shrubs, which previously had to be imported from Japan, Holland, and England. In the 1920s, Malmo sold seeds and nursery stock from a store at 6th Avenue and Stewart Street at Westlake, and at his Georgetown rhododendron fields…
ID Number:1997.4.5
Date:1939
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Landscaping under construction at the Garden Court building, Seattle, circa 1929
Malmo & Company Nursery in Seattle sold seeds and nursery stock, and also ran a successful landscaping business. Some of the mature yards surrounding historic Seattle homes were once the work of the Malmo Company. This photo shows the Garden Court building at 1631 Sixteenth Avenue in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, built in 1929. Its garden courtyard, under construction here,…
ID Number:1997.4.26
Date:Circa 1929
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Landscaping at Garden Court building, circa 1929
Malmo & Company Nursery in Seattle sold seeds and nursery stock, and also ran a successful landscaping business. Some of the mature yards surrounding historic Seattle homes were once the work of the Malmo Company. This photo shows the Garden Court building at 1631 Sixteenth Avenue in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, built in 1929. Its garden courtyard, shown here, was…
ID Number:1997.4.27
Date:Circa 1929
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Landscaping at Garden Court building, ca. 1929
Malmo & Company Nursery in Seattle sold seeds and nursery stock, and also ran a successful landscaping business. Some of the mature yards surrounding historic Seattle homes were once the work of the Malmo Company. This photo shows the Garden Court building at 1631 Sixteenth Avenue in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, built in 1929. Its garden courtyard, shown here, was…
ID Number:1997.4.33
Date:Circa 1929