Paul Dorpat Collection
Browse photographs from the Paul Dorpat Collection which documents the history of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. At this time, a small sampling of images has been digitized while the collection is actively being processed.
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Wallingford at Stone Way N. and Bridge Way N., April 27, 2004
Photograph shows businesses in the Stoneway Center business park on Stone Way N at Bridge Way N.
Identifier: spl_dor_00037
Date: 2004-04-27
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Municipal News v. 55, no. 20, Nov. 22, 1965
Identifier: spl_mn_818362_55_20
Date: 1965-11-22
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Letter from Clarence T. Arai and Gin Kunishige to Willard Young discussing donation, 1961
Frank Asakichi Kunishige was born in Japan on June 5, 1878. He came to the United States via San Francisco in 1895. After graduating from the Illinois College of Photography, he opened a small photography studio in San Francisco. Kunishige moved to Seattle in 1917. In the same year, he married Gin Kunishige and began working in the studio of Edward S. Curtis where he became acquainted with Ella McBride who he worked for in later years. Kunishige was well known for his use of Pictorialism, a popular painterly style of photography. He developed his photographs on "textura tissue," a paper of his own creation, which allowed him to produce almost dreamlike prints. His work was featured nationally and internationally in exhibitions and publications such as Photo-Era and Seattle's Town Crier. In 1924, Kunishige became one of the founding members of the Seattle Camera Club, a group of local photographers including Kyo Koike, Yukio Morinaga, Iwao Matsushita and Fred Y. Ogasawara who gathered to share techniques and ideas, as well as their deep love of the medium. Although the group was initially solely Japanese, they soon welcomed more members including Ella McBride, their first female member. When World War II struck and the country's Japanese internment policy was put in place, Kunishige and his wife were forced to leave Seattle for Idaho where they were interned at the Minidoka camp. After their release, Kunishige spent two years working at a photography studio in Twin Falls, Idaho but eventually returned to Seattle due to his poor health. Frank Kunishige passed away on April 9, 1960.
Identifier: spl_art_367924_58
Date: 1961-08-28
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Seattle Home Savings Building drawing, ca. 1923-1924
Architectural drawing of Home Savings Building by architect Louis Svarz, built at what is now 1520 4th Avenue. This drawing is possibly for the building's remodel which occurred in 1924. The building, originally constructed in 1907, was first called the American Hotel.
Identifier: spl_dor_gpn_re_00141
Date: 1923?; 1924?
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Performers on stage, ca. 1910s
Performers in military uniforms onstage for unidentified performance. Location is presumed to be Seattle.
Identifier: spl_dor_gpn_re_00161
Date: 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919
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Fleet of battleships outlined in lights at night, Seattle, ca. 1908
Image possibly shows the United States Navy's Atlantic Fleet battleships visiting Seattle. The fleet arrived in Seattle on May 23, 1908. Published in Seattle Now & Then column on February 10, 1985.
Identifier: spl_dor_gpn_re_00200
Date: 1908?
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Madison Park, August 1996
Madison Park Beach overlooking Lake Washington, with view of the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (also known as the 520 Bridge) in the distance and partial view of the park's bathhouse.
Identifier: spl_dor_00015
Date: 1996-08
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Men and log cabins at Stewart City, Yukon, ca. 1899
Stewart City served as a trading post for prospectors traveling on steamships along the Yukon River.
Identifier: spl_ap_00182
Date: 1899?
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Houses amongst trees and fields and farmland, ca. 1900s
Location is unknown, possibly Washington State.
Identifier: spl_dor_gpn_re_00191
Date: 1900; 1901; 1902; 1903, 1904; 1905; 1906; 1907; 1908; 1909
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Merrill & Ring Lumber Co. Pysht River camp site drawing, Clallam Bay, Washington, 1916
Architectural drawing for a Pysht River campsite for Merrill & Ring Lumber Co. by Seattle-based architectural firm Bebb & Gould. Plans include a dining hall, storehouses, bunkhouses, cottages, a roundhouse, and a machine shop.
Identifier: spl_dor_gpn_re_00117
Date: 1916
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