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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View east at Denny Way and Warren Ave. N., October 1957
Seattle; Wash. Civic Center; Tidewater Oil Co. Warren & Denny; View east
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00524
Date: 1957-10
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Blue Mouse Theater from across the St., April 1971
Seattle; View N.W. on 5th Av. between Pike & Union; Blue Mouse Theatre to be demolished.
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00090
Date: 1971-04
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Unknown man in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ca. 1880
Photograph taken in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Identifier: spl_lj_035
Date: 1880?
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Garden Theatre from 3rd Ave. and Pine St., February 1977
Seattle - View S.S. on Third from Pine bus stop.
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00028
Date: 1977-02
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I-5 Viaduct construction, June 1961
Seattle; Wash. Freeway viaduct construction; View north to Newton Str.
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00066
Date: 1961-06
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Western Ave. north from Marion St. viaduct, April 1955
Seattle; Wash. Western Ave. looking north from Marion viaduct.
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00377
Date: 1955-04
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I-5 from Madison St. overpass, November 1978
Seattle - Freeway looking North from Madison
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00007
Date: 1978-11
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Elevated view east from 4th Ave. near Yesler Way, 1949
Views. From 4th Ave. 1949 Looking toward the east. Harborview hospital, upper left; old Public Safety Building, Triangular Building, lower right; Yesler Terrace housing development seen below Harborview Hospital; Yesler Way at right, 4th Ave. at bottom of picture.
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00424
Date: 1949
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Illustrations for lecture, Feb 26 1948 (5 of 7)
Mark Tobey was born in Centerville, WI in 1890. Beginning his career as an illustrator, Mark Tobey was a deeply religious man, converting to the universalist Baha'i faith in 1918, which would in some way influence all of his works. After extensive traveling, including a period of time at a Zen monastery in Japan, Tobey taught art and philosophy at Dartington Hall in England until 1937. He then developed his "white writing" technique, painting white cursive writing on dark canvas, a technique which he (and many other Northwest artists) would use extensively until his death. He was one of the four painters LIFE magazine described as "Northwest Mystics". The others were Guy Anderson, Morris Graves and Kenneth Callahan. He died in 1976 in Basel, Switzerland.
Identifier: spl_art_T552il5
Date: 1948
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View NE from Federal Building, April 20, 1975
Seattle - View N.E. from 32nd floor of Federal Building - Bottom center is Third Av. & Spring St.
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00001
Date: 1975-04-20
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