Werner Lenggenhager Photo Collection
Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. Seattle streetscapes and architecture are captured in the images shot by Werner Lenggenhager, a hobby photographer who gave nearly 30,000 prints to the library, many of which are digitized here.
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Orpheum Theater wreckage with stage, September 1967
Seattle; Orpheum Theatre being demolished view N.W.
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00099
Date: 1967-09
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I-5 construction on Olive Way, November 1961
Seattle; Wash. freeway looking north from Olive Way.
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00072
Date: 1961-11
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Das Gasthaus, July 8, 1971
Seattle; "Das Gasthaus" Old Seattle Square; View South from Main Str.
Identifier: spl_wl_res_00038
Date: 1971-07-08
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Vine Court Apartments, April 1973
Seattle' "The Old Vinecourt" Vine Str. & Third Av.; view S.E. Old Apt. House rebuilt into modern live in office apts.
Identifier: spl_wl_apt_00099
Date: 1973-04
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View NE of 5th Ave. and Pine St., December 1965
Seattle; View N.E. of 5th & Pine
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00316
Date: 1965-12
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Greenware and pots in Leon Sarsozo's studio, Pike Place Market, circa 1967
Greenware in Leon Sarsozo's studio, pots
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Date: 1967
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Close up of Exotica Studios strip club sign, November 1979
Seattle - Sign was the last one before permanent closure; 700 block Pike St. north.
Identifier: spl_wl_sex_00013
Date: 1979-11
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1118 and 1120 1st Ave., April 12, 1976
Seattle - offices on 1st Ave. 1100 block
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00405
Date: 1976-04-12
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Street Scene at San Juan
In 1906, Edward S. Curtis received funding from J.P. Morgan to begin work on "The North American Indian," a twenty volume set of photographs and text documenting Native American tribes throughout the western United States. The seventeenth volume, featuring the Tewa and Zuni tribes, was published in 1926.
Identifier: spl_nai_17_595
Date: 1925
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Olive Tower, June 1957
Seattle; Wash. Olive Tower Apts. 1600 block Boren
Identifier: spl_wl_apt_00048
Date: 1957-06
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