1580 results for: City of Seattle
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Priscilla Van Sickler and Loyal Nichols at the Olympic Riding and Driving Club, Seattle, 1932
Priscilla Grace Treat (1902-1979) and Loyal Graef Treat (1906-2004) were the daughters of Harry Whitney Treat (1865-1922) and Olive Marion (Graef) Treat (1869-1945). Harry Treat was a real estate developer who established an electric trolley to promote the suburbs of Ballard, Loyal Heights, and Golden Gardens. Harry and Olive were colorful high society figures in Seattle; their Queen Anne mansion…
ID Number:2005.19.3
Date:1932
Cartographic material
Frank McCaffrey's New Dogwood Map of Seattle, 1934
In 1919, artist, printer, publisher, and politician Frank McCaffrey (1894-1985) bought the Acme Press commercial publishing company in Seattle. In 1931 McCaffrey created Dogwood Press as an Acme Company trademark, which he would operate just a few months before his death. The press printed books, pamphlets, newspapers, and maps often by Seattle authors or about local history.This pictorial map of…
ID Number:2005.23.1
Date:1934
Cartographic material
Seattle and Environs, Eighteen Months after the Great Fire, 1891
Seattle in the early 1890s was a rapidly growing city. The Seattle City Census of 1888 records population at 19,116, and although 1889's Great Fire leveled 116 acres in the heart of the city's business district, by 1890 the city's population actually grew to 40,000 inhabitants from the influx of people helping to recreate the city. This color map of…
ID Number:2005.25.1
Date:1891
Document
ZymoGenetics annual report, 2001
ZymoGenetics was established in Seattle in 1981 by University of Washington professors Earl Davie and Benjamin Hall, along with University of British Columbia professor Michael Smith. One of the oldest biotechnology/pharmaceutical companies in the U.S., ZymoGenetics was involved in the development of therapeutic proteins. The company was acquired by Novo Nordisk in 1988, and was spun off as a public…
ID Number:2005.26.1
Date:2001
Ephemera
ZymoGenetics NASDAQ advertisement, 2002
ZymoGenetics was established in Seattle in 1981 by University of Washington professors Earl Davie and Benjamin Hall, along with University of British Columbia professor Michael Smith. One of the oldest biotechnology/pharmaceutical companies in the U.S., ZymoGenetics was involved in the development of therapeutic proteins. The company was acquired by Novo Nordisk in 1988, and was spun off as a public…
ID Number:2005.26.2.1
Date:2002
Poster
Japanese language ZymoGenetics posters, 2002
ZymoGenetics was established in Seattle in 1981 by University of Washington professors Earl Davie and Benjamin Hall, along with University of British Columbia professor Michael Smith. One of the oldest biotechnology/pharmaceutical companies in the U.S., ZymoGenetics was involved in the development of therapeutic proteins. The company was acquired by Novo Nordisk in 1988, and was spun off as a public…
ID Number:2005.26.3
Date:2002
Poster
Save Seattle's Music Hall poster, Seattle, circa 1990
Seattle's Music Hall Theatre was a large, single screen theater originally opened as the Fox Theatre at Seventh and Olive in April 1929. It was purchased by the Clise family in 1936 and renamed the 7th Avenue until the 1960s, when it became the Music Hall once again. In response to losing several historic downtown theaters to the new suburban…
ID Number:2005.28.1
Date:Circa 1990
Ephemera
Frye's Opera House ledger, Seattle, 1887-1888
In 1883, Seattle businessman George F. Frye and his wife Louisa Denny Frye commissioned the building of a first-class opera house for the growing city. Located at the corner of First Avenue and Marion Streets, the elegant 1300-seat hall opened in 1884. Frye managed the house himself. It featured performances by national and international touring groups and provided a gathering…
ID Number:2005.38.4
Date:1887-1888
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Coolidge Propeller Co. employees posing with large propeller, Seattle, 1911
Seattle's Coolidge Propeller Company was begun by Leigh Hill Coolidge (1870-1959), a prolific naval architect and pioneer in the design and machining of high-speed propellers for racing hydroplanes. One of the most well-known vessels he designed is the City Light excursion vessel Alice Ross, which gave its first tour of the Skagit River Hydroelectric Project on Diablo Lae in 1935.…
ID Number:2005.44.1
Date:1911
Poster
Monorail Yes! poster, Seattle, 2002
This Monorail Yes! poster was part of a long campaign to expand the Seattle Monorail line, which eventually was defeated in 2005. Dick Falkenbury, a long-time political activist, led the effort to draft Initiative 41, which called for construction of a 40-mile monorail system linking Seattle's four corners to downtown Seattle to form a giant "X." The initiative also established…
ID Number:2005.63.15
Date:2002