3 results for: Augustine, M.B.
Ephemera
Request for installation of electricity in home, July 7, 1906
In 1906, businessperson Manuel Brock Augustine (1844-1922) wrote the note pictured here to the superintendent of the Seattle Light and Water Department (now Seattle Public Utilities), Luther Burns Youngs (1860-1923), asking to have electric lights installed in his home. Mr. Augustine and his business partner, Charles Louch (b. 1850), had between them been operating grocery, wholesale, mining supply stores in…
ID Number:1969.5072.104
Date:1906
Photograph
Colman Building, with Lough, Augustine & Co.'s grocery wagons, Seattle, circa 1900
Seattle's Colman Building, at 811 First Avenue, was one of many large brick buildings built in the Pioneer Square area after the 1889 Great Fire. One of its early business occupants was the upscale grocery firm of Lough, Augustine and Company. Others included the Northern Pacific Express Co., Hudson Bay Fur Co., Wilcox Tailoring Co., Lang Drug Co., and the…
ID Number:1971.5202.20
Date:Circa 1900
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Ford employees posed outside at South Lake Union assembly plant, Seattle, 1916
In the 1920s, the Ford Motor Company had a number of buildings across the country for local assembly of Model T cars. One assembly plant was located in Seattle, at the southern end of Lake Union, at what is now 700 Fairview Avenue North. The building, which still stands, was occupied by The Craftsman Press for a period and, as…
ID Number:2004.39.1
Date:1916