Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. Seattle streetscapes and architecture are captured in the images shot by Werner Lenggenhager, a hobby photographer who gave nearly 30,000 prints to the library, many of which are digitized here.
Ruins at 2nd Ave. and Columbia St. following the Great Fire, June 1889
Fire. Ruins. Front Street. Looking West from Second Avenue and Columbia Street from the Boston Block.
Identifier: spl_shp_5049
Date: 1889
View this itemJewish Transcript v. 1, no. 39, Dec. 5, 1924
Identifier: spl_jt_3018328_01_39
Date: 1924-12-05
View this itemIce Follies billboard, April 1969
Seattle; Poster of 1969; Peggy Fleming; Gold medal winner at 1968 Olympic games.
Identifier: spl_wl_bil_00033
Date: 1969-04
View this itemSR 520 bridges at Union Bay, September 25, 1963
Seattle; Union Bay; View east Evergreen Point Floating Bridge approaches & ramps
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00039
Date: 1963-09-25
View this itemPike Place Market ink drawing or screenprint
Drawing or screenprint depicting Pike Place Market at the intersection of 1st Avenue and Pike Street.
Identifier: spl_ps_022
View this itemElevated view NE on 4th Ave. from Yesler Way overpass, October 1972
Seattle; View N.E. on 4th Av. from Yesler Way overpass
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00389
Date: 1972-10
View this item1118 and 1120 1st Ave., April 12, 1976
Seattle - offices on 1st Ave. 1100 block
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00405
Date: 1976-04-12
View this itemElliott Bay from West Seattle, December 25, 1966
Elliott Bay, Christmas morning, December 1966
Identifier:
Date: 1966-12
View this itemConstruction of Space Needle foundation, ca. May 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_68750014
Date: 1961-05
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