Seattle Neighborhood History Project
Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. View items related to your neighborhood’s history available at the library and other archives. Photos, historical articles and documents tell tales from the past.
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View north from 1st Ave. and Cherry, 1870
Transcribed from front of photograph: "Streets. Front Street [1st Ave.]. 1870. Looking North from Cherry Street. 1. Intelligencer building. 2. L. A. Treen shoe store. 3. S. L. Benjamin book store." Transcribed from back of photo: "F. W. Wald, hardware. Reinig store (agent for Singer sewing machines). Over Reinig's, Puget Sound Business College. Left side: Intelligencer building. Treen & Co. shoe store. S.L. Benjamin book store."
Identifier: spl_shp_5174
Date: 1870
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Baseball 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
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Pacific Builder and Engineer, v. 5, no. 24, Jun. 15, 1907
Page 4 article discusses the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and includes portrait of Frank P. Allen Jr., Director of Works for the exposition.
Identifier: spl_pbe_3022043_1907_05_24
Date: 1907-06-15
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Pacific Builder and Engineer, v. 6, Index, July-December 1908
Index to the second half of Volume 6.
Identifier: spl_pbe_3022043_1908_06_Index2
Date: 1908
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Houses on 411-417 9th Ave. N., 1951
Transcribed from photograph: "Houses. 411-417 9th Ave. North. Ca. 1900. Exterior. Wood. Front View. 1951. Photo by Werner Lenggenhager. Row-house, Victorian style."
Identifier: spl_shp_20021
Date: 1951
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NW corner of Seneca St. and Minor Ave., 1958
Transcribed from photograph: "Houses. Northwest corner of Seneca St. and Minor Ave. Exterior. Wood. Three-quarter view. Photo by Werner Lenggenhager, 1958."
Identifier: spl_shp_22433
Date: 1958
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"Negative Round" by Rita Kepner, 1971
Transcribed from photograph: "Seattle. Sculpture Kepner, Rita. 1944- . Negative round. 1965-66. African wonderstone. View 2. Seattle Public Library. Photo & gift of Werner Lenggenhager, 1971."
Identifier: spl_shp_35063
Date: 1971
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SGS Bulletin, v.14, no. 3, Mar. 1965
Identifier: spl_sgs_475325_014_003_Mar1965
Date: Mar. 1965
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Victorian style residence at 3820 Airport Way, ca. 1950
Transcribed from photograph: "Houses. Victorian style residence at 3820 Airport Way."
Identifier: spl_shp_20085
Date: 1950?
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Harbor Island, 1969
Transcribed from photograph: "Seattle Waterfront. 1969. Looking east over Elliott Bay. Ship “Hawaiian Farmer” in foreground. 1969. Photo by Ray Atkeson."
Identifier: spl_shp_22203
Date: 1969
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