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.
Seattle First National Bank billboard, February 22, 1959
Seattle; Wash. Bank poster
Identifier: spl_wl_bil_00006
Date: 1959-02-22
View this itemMetropolitan Theater front facade, April 1953
Seattle; Wash. Metropolitan Theater.
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00122
Date: 1953-04
View this itemPencil sketches of CCC camps: K.P. duty - peeling spuds.
Identifier: spl_art_N779Pe10
Date: 1934
View this itemShowboat Theatre, 1953
Seattle; Wash. Showboat Theatre of the University of Wash. from Portage Bay.
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00111
Date: 1953
View this itemIvar's Northlake Way Restaurant, April 19, 1971
Seattle; Ivar's Northlake Way Restaurant - Front (main) entrance - View south
Identifier: spl_wl_res_00122
Date: 1971-04-19
View this itemView north to 5th Ave. with Music Box Theater, July 1982
Seattle; View N.W. intersection Union [i.e. Pike ?] & 5th Ave.
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00303
Date: 1982-07
View this itemWoman's Little Theater overgrown with vines, October 11, 1955
Seattle; Wash. Woman's Little Theatre; E. Roy & Harvard North.
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00074
Date: 1955-10-11
View this itemI-5 from Belmont Ave. E. and Lakeview Blvd. E., January 31, 1967
Seattle; View north on freeway from overpass at Belmont east & Lakeview
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00019
Date: 1967-01-31
View this itemMoscow Restaurant, February 1952
Seattle; Wash. Russian Restaurant; Lakeview Blvd.
Identifier: spl_wl_res_00155
Date: 1952-02
View this item1st Ave. north of Pike St., February 1985
Seattle - View east on 1st Av. & N. of Pike Str. (note: architecture of bygone days)
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00539
Date: 1985-02
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