Seattle Neighborhood History Project
Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. View items related to your neighborhood’s history available at the library and other archives. Photos, historical articles and documents tell tales from the past.
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West Seattle Branch Children's Room, Seattle Public Library, ca. 1910
Transcribed from photograph: "West Seattle Branch. Children's Room. 42nd Ave. S. W. and West College St. Built 1910. Interior."
Identifier: spl_shp_15289
Date: 1910
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Northgate Shopping Center, 1952
Transcribed from photograph: "Shopping Centers. Northgate. Airplane view looking toward west. 1950. Photo 1952. John Graham & Co., architects."
Identifier: spl_shp_20783
Date: 1952
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View south from 5th Ave. and Pine St., 1887
Transcribed from photograph: "Views. From Fifth Avenue and Pine Street. Looking South. 1887. 1. Coppin's water works. 2. Sixth Street School. 3. Providence hospital. 4. Territorial University."
Identifier: spl_shp_5170
Date: 1887
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Joshua Green, 1968
Transcribed from photograph: "Portraits. Green, Joshua, 1869-1975. Born October 16, 1869. Drawing by Stuart Moldrem."
Identifier: spl_shp_22373
Date: 1968
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View S.E. from Berlin Pavilion N.W. corner of fairground
Berlin Pavilion on the International Mall of the Century 21 Exposition (Seattle World's Fair). “The story of a divided Berlin is told to visitors through a network of four movie projectors that keep a film constantly in operation, an illuminated map, earphones through which visitors may hear a message in English from Mayor Willy Brandt, and eight panels containing photographs of the history of the city. Gerhard Zimmerman, Director” (Official press book: Seattle World's Fair 1962. Seattle: Century 21 Exposition, 1962, p. 35)
Identifier: spl_wl_exp_00236
Date: 1962-04-28
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Agricultural Building at the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, 1909
Transcribed from photograph: "Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition. 1909. Agricultural building. Graham & Meyers, architects. Olmsted & Dawson, landscape architects."
Identifier: spl_shp_11986
Date: 1909
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Your adventure on Seattle's Space Needle : World's Fair 1962, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
Brief, colorful brochure for visitors to the Space Needle, a 605-foot-tall tower constructed for the Century 21 Exposition (Seattle World's Fair). “The Space Needle, a modernistic totem of the Seattle World’s Fair, was conceived by Eddie Carlson as a doodle in 1959 and given form by architects John Graham Jr., Victor Steinbrueck, and John Ridley. When King County declined to fund the project, five private investors, Bagley Wright, Ned Skinner, Norton Clapp, John Graham Jr., and Howard S. Wright, took over and built the 605-foot tower in less than a year.” (Walt Crowley, “Space Needle (Seattle).” HistoryLink.org, http://historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1424)
Identifier: spl_c21_2581571
Date: 1962
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Thomas Jefferson Humes, ca. 1900
Transcribed from photograph: "Portraits. Humes, Thomas Jefferson. 1849-1904. Mayor 1897-1904."
Identifier: spl_shp_14994
Date: 1900?
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Cabin of "Green Lake John," ca. 1870
Transcribed from photograph: "Seattle Houses. "Green Lake John." Ca. 1870. Exterior. Log cabin. Three-quarter view from front and left side."
Identifier: spl_shp_22958
Date: 1870?
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View SW from 32nd Ave., 1898
Transcribed from photograph: "Streets. Thirty-second Avenue. South. 1898."
Identifier: spl_shp_5163
Date: 1898
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