Maps and Atlases Collection
Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. See maps and atlases depicting the changing landscape of Seattle and other areas in the Pacific Northwest. Take a look at our historic map resources page to browse maps by location.
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Second Supplemental Maps, Lake Union [Portage Bay] Shore Lands, circa 1960
Map depicting land parcels near Portage Bay and Montlake.
Identifier: spl_maps_2479642
Date: 1960
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Angelo Pellegrini Interview, February 27, 1986
Angelo Pellegrini (1903-1991) was a food and wine expert, author, and a professor of English Literature at the University of Washington. He was born in Casabianca, Italy and was one of six children. His father, Piacento, was a sharecropper and left Italy for the United States in 1912 to seek a better life for his family. He found work first with the Northern Pacific Railway (which sent him to Washington) and then with the Henry McCleary Timber Company in Grays Harbor. The rest of the Pellegrini family followed in 1913. Angelo Pellegrini excelled in school, learning English and completing eight years of grade school in five years. He completed high school in three years and enrolled in the University of Washington where he studied history. Following his graduation from the University of Washington, he began became an English professor at Whitman College for a brief time before returning to teach at the University of Washington. Pellegrini published his first book, The Unprejudiced Palate, in 1948. Over the course of his career he earned several awards and honors including being named an "an Outstanding Citizen of Washington State" by the Washington State House of Representatives. He retired from teaching in 1973 but continued to write, authoring ten books in total over the course of his lifetime. His books were noted for their appreciation of food and culture and representation of the Italian immigrant experience.
Identifier: spl_ds_apellegrini_01_01
Date: 1986-02-27
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Haircut
Fay Chong was born in Canton, China in 1912. He worked primarily in printmaking and in watercolor. He and his family moved to Seattle in 1920. He attended Edison High School where he was a classmate of George Tsutakawa. Chong worked on the Public Works of Art Project in the 1930's with Robert Bruce Inverarity, Jacob Elshin and Julius Twohy. Chong taught art at Cornish College for the Arts, Seattle Community College, Washington Senior High School and Ingraham High School. He received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in 1968 and an MAT from the University of Washington in 1971. He died suddenly of a stroke in 1973.
Identifier: spl_art_C455Ha
Date: 1968
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Map Showing Route of Duwamish Waterway Through Commercial Waterway District No. 1, King County, Washington, 1919
Map showing land parcels, land owners and other businesses along the Duwamish waterway, 1919
Identifier: spl_maps_2506329
Date: 1919
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Virginia Price Patty Interview, August 17, 1987 and March 28, 1988
Virginia Price Patty (1898?-1998). Patty was born in Paris, Illinois ca. 1898. Her family moved to Seattle in 1905 and her father started work with his cousin, Charles Wiley. Wiley’s hydraulic construction company was responsible for regrading Beacon Hill, King St. and Dearborn. She attended Lowell Elementary and graduated from Broadway High School in 1916. She earned her degree from Smith College in 1920 where her interest was drama and theater. Afterwards she returned to Seattle and attended Cornish College and business school. She worked briefly at the Cornish Theater and in the principal’s office at Garfield High School. Patty married Andrew Price in 1922 and they had three children. Price was involved in investment banking with the National Bank of Commerce where he served in multiple roles including vice president, director and chairman. Patty served as the Girl Scout Commissioner of Seattle and King County for four years starting ca. 1942. In 1946, she was named to the Board of Directors of Western Region Girl Scouts. She was also involved with the Junior League. In 1955, her husband Andrew passed away. She married Ernest Patty in 1968. He served as president of the University of Alaska prior to their marriage and was involved in establishing the school's mining and engineering department. He died in 1976.
Identifier: spl_ds_vpatty_01
Date: 1987-08-17; 1988-03-28
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Garden Theatre just after closure, 3rd Ave. between Pike St. and Pine St., September 18, 1979
Also known as the Winter Garden Theatre, it opened in December 1920 and closed in June 1979 as the Garden Art Theater. The Fischer Studio Building appears to the right of the theater and the Melbourne House Building appears to the left.
Identifier: spl_dor_00023
Date: 1978-09-18
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McKee's Correct Road Map of Seattle and Vicinity, Washington, U.S.A., 1894
""Showing details of roads and graded streets and positions of principal dwellings and prominent buildings.""
Identifier: spl_maps_2445404
Date: 1894
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Temporary span looking south at 12th Ave. S bridge, May 30, 1968
Temporary span on the Jose Rizal Bridge (renamed from 12th Avenue South Bridge in 1974) which carries 12th Avenue S over S Dearborn St. View faces south over the I-5 freeway where Smith Tower and the Space Needle can be seen in the distance. The building under construction at the center of the photograph is Safeco Plaza.
Identifier: spl_dor_00017
Date: 1968-05-30
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Pacific Builder and Engineer, v. 4, no. 3, Jan. 20, 1906
Page 3 includes article featuring architect Albert Walter Spalding with a portrait.
Identifier: spl_pbe_3022043_1906_04_03
Date: 1906-01-20
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