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Home of Harry Whitney and Olive Treat on West Highland Drive, Seattle, circa 1906
Harry Whitney Treat arrived in Seattle when the city was flush with Gold Rush earnings and invested in large tracts of real estate north of Ballard. As construction commenced on the 30-room Treat home atop Queen Anne Hill, at 1 West Highland Drive, he developed the area of Loyal Heights and Loyal Beach (now Golden Gardens). They were named after…
ID Number:1946.404.d.1
Date:Circa 1906
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View west on Boyer Avenue, Seattle, December 15, 1911
The Montlake neighborhood of Seattle has a rich history that dates back to its earliest settlement, where both Indigenous Peoples and European settlers acknowledged the significance of the region as a vital portage route for watercraft. This area, being the narrowest stretch of land between Lake Union and Lake Washington, naturally led early inhabitants to envision a future canal connecting…
ID Number:1952.146.1
Date:1911
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View west on Boyer Avenue, Seattle, March 15, 1913
The Montlake neighborhood of Seattle has a rich history that dates back to its earliest settlement, where both Indigenous Peoples and European settlers acknowledged the significance of the region as a vital portage route for watercraft. This area, being the narrowest stretch of land between Lake Union and Lake Washington, naturally led early inhabitants to envision a future canal connecting…
ID Number:1952.146.2
Date:1913
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View east on Boyer Avenue, Seattle, March 15, 1913
The Montlake neighborhood of Seattle has a rich history that dates back to its earliest settlement, where both Indigenous Peoples and European settlers acknowledged the significance of the region as a vital portage route for watercraft. This area, being the narrowest stretch of land between Lake Union and Lake Washington, naturally led early inhabitants to envision a future canal connecting…
ID Number:1952.146.3
Date:1913
Cartographic material
Anderson's 1896 Street and Guide Map of the City of Seattle
Seattle entrepreneur and amateur photographer O.P. (Oliver Phelps) Anderson (1859-1941) was the son of Alexander Jay Anderson (1832-1903), president of the Washington Territorial University (now University of Washington) from 1877-1882. O.P. trained as a draughtsman and by 1890 had started a civil engineering and map publishing business, O. P. Anderson & Company (later O. P. Anderson Map & Blue Print…
ID Number:1952.986.57.2
Date:1896
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Views of East Newton Street, Seattle, 1911 and 1912
Seattle's Portage Bay-Roanoke-North Capitol Hill neighborhood is located at the far northern end of the north-south ridge that forms Seattle's Capitol, Renton, First, and Beacon hills. Development during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was spurred by the area's convenient location: close enough -- but not too close -- to downtown Seattle. Initially somewhat challenging to access, by 1906…
ID Number:1957.1279.1
Date:1911-1912
Book
Favorite Recipes of the North Queen Anne Guild of the Children's Orthopedic Hospital, 1926
Seattle's Children's Orthopedic Hospital was founded by a group of affluent women to treat children with serious medical needs. Neighborhood guilds helped fund raise for the hospital, which was located on Queen Anne Hill. Carnivals and other community events took place, and this cookbook was produced as part of the North Queen Anne Guild's activities .The volume begins with a…
ID Number:1965.3541.3
Date:1926
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Horace C. Henry home, Seattle, circa 1920
One of Seattle's early residents, Horace Chapin Henry (1844-1928) was a businessperson who made a fortune with building contractor Henry Balch when they formed Henry and Balch, a construction company that won many contracts for railroads and roads throughout the United States. Work brought Henry to Seattle in late 1891, and he began to make investments in local businesses, later…
ID Number:1967.4235.6
Date:Circa 1920
Cartographic material
Complete Map of the City of Ballard, Wash. and Vicinity, November 15, 1904
Seattle's Ballard neighborhood was an independent city when it incorporated in 1890 until it was annexed by Seattle on May 29, 1907. Six months earlier the vote by Ballard citizens to join Seattle had passed by a narrow margin, 996 to 874. The map pictured here was created three years before annexation and shows, among other features, "the changes in…
ID Number:1968.4347.1
Date:1904
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Washington Laundry building and delivery carriages, Seattle, 1910
Born in Tennessee, James Thomas Huff (1868-1924) moved to Seattle in 1894, finding work at the Seattle Laundry. In 1904, he established his own laundry business, Washington Laundry, at 1165 Eastlake Avenue on Lake Union.In this image Mr. Huff stands next to his Winton automobile in front of Washington Laundry. The laundry delivery drivers with their horses and wagons are…
ID Number:1969.4602.2
Date:1910