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Seattle Public Library, Central Library, 1960
Transcribed from photograph: "Seattle Public Library. 1960- . Central building. 4th and Madison. Built 1960. Exterior. 4th Avenue entrance. View from 4th Ave. and Spring St. Photo by Werner Lenggenhager. 1960. Bindon & Wright, architects."
Identifier: spl_shp_21858
Date: 1960
View this itemLouisa Denny, ca. 1910
Transcribed from photograph: "Portrait, looking to the right (three quarters view)."
Identifier: spl_shp_40009
Date: 1900?
View this itemGrand Trunk Pacific dock on fire, July 30, 1914
Transcribed from photograph: "Seattle Fire. July 30, 1914. Grand Trunk Pacific dock on fire."
Identifier: spl_shp_21700
Date: 1914-07-30
View this itemForward deck of Battleship New Mexico, September 12, 1919
Transcribed from photograph: "Pacific Fleet. Review, Sept. 12-14, 1919. Battleship new Mexico. Forward deck showing 14 inch guns. Flagship of Admiral Rodman."
Identifier: spl_shp_14585
Date: 1919-09-12
View this itemSouvenir program of the Alaska Yukon Pacific Eisteddfod, August 1909
Program for a Welsh literature and music festival held at the Exposition Auditorium on 27-28 August 1909. Includes lists and images of Eisteddfod Association officers, trustees, officials, literary adjudicators, presidents, and stockholders as well as schedule and conditions for literary and musical competitions. Printed lyrics to Virginius (English); Old Ironsides (English); Y Bore Olaf (Welsh); Prize Verses to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (English and Welsh); Ton Aberystwyth (Welsh); Ton Huddersfield (Welsh); Ton Crug-Y-Bar (Welsh); Ton Malvern (Welsh); God Be With You (English); America (English). 34 pages, illustrated.
Identifier: mohai_ayp_2006.3.34.3
Date: 1909-08
View this itemCatherine Maynard at tomb of David Maynard in Lakeview Cemetery, 1903
Transcribed from photograph: "Portraits. Maynard, Catherine, Troutman (Mrs. David S. Maynard) 1816-1906. At the tomb of her husband, Lakeview Cemetery. 1903. First nurse in Seattle."
Identifier: spl_shp_5208
Date: 1903
View this item1800 block E. Fir St., 1958
Transcribed from photograph: "Seattle Houses. 1800 block East Fir Street. Exterior. Wood. Three-quarter view from front and right side. View towards northwest. Photo by Werner Lenggenhager 1958."
Identifier: spl_shp_22496
Date: 1958
View this itemWorkers securing Space Needle ring girder, ca. November 13-15, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_70100004
Date: 1961-11-13
View this itemBaseball team on the stairs of the Emerson Building in Ballard, ca. 1900
Transcribed from photograph: "Ballard Baseball Team." Team appears to be on the stairs of the same building that appears in spl_shp_40020 where it is identified as the Emerson Building in Ballard.
Identifier: spl_shp_40023
Date: 1910
View this itemSeattle Central Library Children's Room, 1910
Transcribed from photograph: "Public Library. 1906-1957. Central library. Children's room. 1910."
Identifier: spl_shp_15295
Date: 1910
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