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.
Workers driving drift pin into place on third Space Needle leg, ca. July 31, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_68840020
Date: 1961-07-31
View this itemI-5 Viaduct construction, June 1961
Seattle; Wash. Freeway viaduct construction; View north to Newton Str.
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00066
Date: 1961-06
View this itemUnknown man in Galesburg, Illinois, ca. 1880
Photograph taken by Thomas Harrison in Galesburg, Illinois.
Identifier: spl_lj_043
Date: 1880?
View this itemI-5 from Madison St. overpass, November 1978
Seattle - Freeway looking North from Madison
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00007
Date: 1978-11
View this itemWorkers at top of Space Needle and view SE, ca. November 11, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_70090023
Date: 1961-11-11
View this itemTriton Terrace apartments, February 20, 1965
Seattle; Wash. View S.E. of Triton Terrace; W. Mercer Place.
Identifier: spl_wl_apt_00090
Date: 1965-02-20
View this itemParamount Theatre ornate cornice and facade, January 1958
Seattle; Wash. Paramount Theater west facade decoration.
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00049
Date: 1958-01
View this itemI-5 from Yesler Way overpass, January 31, 1967
Seattle; View north on freeway from Yesler Way overpass on dedication day
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00033
Date: 1967-01-31
View this itemNew Paris Theater, burlesque, March 1972
Seattle; Second Ave. burlesque theatre is next to Smith Tower Bldg.; View S.E.
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00068
Date: 1972-03
View this itemI-5 at night from Pine St. overpass
Seattle; Freeway I-5; View S.W. left is northbound traffic
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00027
Date: 1972-12-15
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