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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Unidentified bar, Seattle, ca. 1910s
Bartender and three men posing inside unidentified bar. A certificate from the Bartenders International League of America designating it as a ""union bar"" is affixed near the cash register, and food menus can be seen reflected in the mirror.
Identifier: spl_dor_gpn_re_00009
Date: 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919
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J.F. Mott & Co. drug store interior, Seattle, ca. 1910-1912
Store clerk attending to client inside of J.F. Mott & Co. drug store, either from 1501 Queen Anne Ave., or 2401 1st Ave., Seattle. Certificates for pharmacist Joseph F. Mott are mounted on the wall. Items for sale include cigars, composition books, postcards and an assortment of bottled powders.
Identifier: spl_dor_gpn_re_00054
Date: 1910; 1911; 1912
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Highland Park School, Seattle, ca. 1920s
The Highland Park School building shown here opened in 1921 at 1012 SW Trenton St.
Identifier: spl_dor_gpn_re_00103
Date: 1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1924; 1925; 1926; 1927; 1928; 1929
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Queen Anne High School, Seattle, ca. 1910s
Queen Anne High School opened in September 1909. The school was closed in 1981 and the building was repurposed into the Queen Anne Apartments in 1984. Published in Dorpat's Seattle Now & Then column "Queen Anne High" on October 12, 1997, and again in Dorpat's blog post "Queen Anne Addendum #1 - Queen Anne High" on October 13, 2010.
Identifier: spl_dor_gpn_re_00118
Date: 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919
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Classroom with typewriters at the Hyatt-Fowells School, Seattle, ca. 1915-1919
Classroom with Remington typewriters on desks, likely at the Hyatt-Fowells School on the top floor of Pantages building on 3rd Ave and University St. Writing on the window can be seen, reading "A little better than seems necessary" and the number 1904, possibly the year the school was established.
Identifier: spl_dor_gpn_re_00128
Date: 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919
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North portal to the Great Northern Railroad's tunnel under Seattle, ca. 1904
Construction workers and building supplies can be seen outside of the entrance to the tunnel. Hotel York appears at the left of the photo. Featured in ""Longest Tunnel"" essay, Number 47, in Dorpat's Seattle Now and Then, Volume 2. https://pauldorpat.com/2020/10/08/seattle-now-then-great-northern-tunnel-construction-1904/ and https://pauldorpat.com/2014/11/15/seattle-now-then-the-hotel-york/
Identifier: spl_dor_gpn_re_00209
Date: 1904?
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View across Portage Bay into the Montlake Cut, Seattle, ca. 1916
View looking east from north Capital Hill's Roanoke neighborhood, showing the dam used to lower Lake Washington to the water level of Lake Union in building the Lake Washington Ship Canal. Image used in Seattle Now & Then post ""Union Bay Houseboat,"" September 26, 2010: https://pauldorpat.com/2010/09/26/seattle-now-then-union-bay-boathouse/
Identifier: spl_dor_gpn_re_00077
Date: 1916?
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Tucker Hanford Company building, Seattle, ca. 1915-1919
Man standing at the entrance to the Tucker Hanford Company factory and office building at 703 Westlake Avenue, built in 1915.
Identifier: spl_dor_gpn_re_00176
Date: 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919
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Unidentified meat market, Seattle, February 1912
Two men standing behind the counter of an unidentified meat market, with several cuts of meat hanging above and behind them.
Identifier: spl_dor_gpn_re_00088
Date: 1912-02
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Landmarks Preservation Board Ordinance, February 12, 1977
Ordinance calling for the creation of the Landmarks Preservation Board to identify and preserve 'objects, sites, improvements, and elements having historical, cultural, architectural, engineering or geographic importance.'
Identifier: spl_ps_006
Date: 1977-02-12
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