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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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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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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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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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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"Food will win the war" sign, City Hall Park, Seattle, ca. 1914-1918
"Set in City Hall Park to service 'food programs' during the First World War." Photograph used in "Seattle Now & Then: Billboards on Third Avenue" under Web Extras, November 24, 2012: https://pauldorpat.com/2012/11/24/seattle-now-then-billboards-on-third-avenue/. The County-City Building, later known as the King County Courthouse opened in 1916. A five floor addition was added in 1930."
Identifier: spl_dor_gpn_re_00150
Date: 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918
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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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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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Urban design plans for the Pike Plaza Project, 1968
Design plans created by the John Morse & Associates architecture firm outlining the proposed changes to the Pike Place Market area under the urban renewal plans.
Identifier: spl_ps_019
Date: 1968-07
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El Templete, Havana, Cuba, ca. 1910s
El Templete was built in 1827 to commemorate the site of the first mass celebrated in Cuba on November 16th, 1519.
Identifier: spl_dor_gpn_re_00216
Date: 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919
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Fourth Annual Conference National Council for Black Studies Schedule of Events, January 31-February 2, 1985
Schedule of events for conference held at the University of Washington.
Identifier: spl_bch_aae_00016
Date: 1985-02
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