Werner Lenggenhager Photo Collection
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.
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Burlesque theater entrance with advertising at 1st Ave. and Madison St., June 1958
Seattle; Wash. 1st Ave. near Marion [Madison].
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00113
Date: 1958-06
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Orpheum Theater, December 1965
Seattle; Wash. Times Square looking north.
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00046
Date: 1965-12
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Letter from Arthur Goodwin to Mr. Stier regarding City Light contracts for Pike Place Market stalls, August 11, 1927
Letter from Arthur Goodwin to Mr. Stier asking him to advise the City Light Department when there is a new tenant in the GG section of Pike Place Market. Goodwin explains that the tenant contracts are currently owned by both City Light and the power company and the contracts cannot switch providers unless there is a tenancy change.
Identifier: spl_sh_00127
Date: 1927-08-11
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Moscow Restaurant, February 1952
Seattle; Wash. Russian Restaurant; Lakeview Blvd.
Identifier: spl_wl_res_00155
Date: 1952-02
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Triton Terrace apartments, February 20, 1965
Seattle; Wash. View S.E. of Triton Terrace; W. Mercer Place.
Identifier: spl_wl_apt_00090
Date: 1965-02-20
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View west from Seattle Municipal Building, January 5, 1973
Seattle; View west from Municipal Bldg. roof garden; Smoke in center is from a state of Alaska Ferry at Pier 48; Public Safety Bldg. at right.
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00383
Date: 1973-01-05
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Illustrations for lecture, Feb 26 1948 (5 of 7)
Mark Tobey was born in Centerville, WI in 1890. Beginning his career as an illustrator, Mark Tobey was a deeply religious man, converting to the universalist Baha'i faith in 1918, which would in some way influence all of his works. After extensive traveling, including a period of time at a Zen monastery in Japan, Tobey taught art and philosophy at Dartington Hall in England until 1937. He then developed his "white writing" technique, painting white cursive writing on dark canvas, a technique which he (and many other Northwest artists) would use extensively until his death. He was one of the four painters LIFE magazine described as "Northwest Mystics". The others were Guy Anderson, Morris Graves and Kenneth Callahan. He died in 1976 in Basel, Switzerland.
Identifier: spl_art_T552il5
Date: 1948
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Moscow Restaurant, December 9, 1953
Seattle; Wash. Moscow Restaurant; Lakeview Blvd. Long a landmark in Seattle this Russian restaurant makes a picturesque scene. Photograph 1953.
Identifier: spl_wl_res_00128
Date: 1953-12-09
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Crepe de Paris, October 1974
Seattle; Sidewalk restaurant on 7th Av. between Stewart St. & Olive Way - View north.
Identifier: spl_wl_res_00085
Date: 1974-10
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Bill of Fare lunch cart in Occidental Square, August 1973
Seattle; Occidental Park; Lunch cart with Grand Central on the Park Bldg. as background
Identifier: spl_wl_sqr_00047
Date: 1973-08
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