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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SR 520 from overpass near MOHAI, October 13, 1963
Seattle; Wash. View east from overpass at Museum of History and Industry; Laurelhurst upper left
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00044
Date: 1963-10-13
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Westside of 1400 block of 1st Ave., May 1976
Seattle - 1400 block - 1st Av. west side near Market entrance - View N.W.
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00169
Date: 1976-05
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I-5 construction near Montlake Bridge, November 1962
Seattle; Wash. approach to 2nd Lake Wash. Bridge; To left is former entrance to Museum of H&I View from overpass
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00086
Date: 1962-11
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View NE on Madison St. from Federal Building, April 20, 1975
Seattle; View from 32nd floor of Federal Building - Madison St. bisects area of important cultural & business buildings.
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00402
Date: 1975-04-20
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Ford billboard, February 7, 1959
Seattle; Wash. Commercial poster
Identifier: spl_wl_bil_00042
Date: 1959-02-22
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Wooden railroad overpass and I-5 construction in Georgetown, March 16, 1966
Seattle - Georgetown. View east on old railroad overpass; new freeway construction.
Identifier: spl_wl_gtn_00010
Date: 1966-03-16
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View north from Union St. and 5th Ave., June 1958
Seattle; Wash. Union & 5th Ave. looking north; New Logan Bldg. at N.E. corner going up.
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00285
Date: 1958-06
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Summer afternoon in Occidental Park, August 1973
Seattle; Occidental Park on a summer noontime; View N.W.
Identifier: spl_wl_sqr_00048
Date: 1973-08
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Espagnole
Frank Asakichi Kunishige was born in Japan on June 5, 1878. He came to the United States via San Francisco in 1895. After graduating from the Illinois College of Photography, he opened a small photography studio in San Francisco. Kunishige moved to Seattle in 1917. In the same year, he married Gin Kunishige and began working in the studio of Edward S. Curtis where he became acquainted with Ella McBride who he worked for in later years. Kunishige was well known for his use of Pictorialism, a popular painterly style of photography. He developed his photographs on "textura tissue," a paper of his own creation, which allowed him to produce almost dreamlike prints. His work was featured nationally and internationally in exhibitions and publications such as Photo-Era and Seattle's Town Crier. In 1924, Kunishige became one of the founding members of the Seattle Camera Club, a group of local photographers including Kyo Koike, Yukio Morinaga, Iwao Matsushita and Fred Y. Ogasawara who gathered to share techniques and ideas, as well as their deep love of the medium. Although the group was initially solely Japanese, they soon welcomed more members including Ella McBride, their first female member. When World War II struck and the country's Japanese internment policy was put in place, Kunishige and his wife were forced to leave Seattle for Idaho where they were interned at the Minidoka camp. After their release, Kunishige spent two years working at a photography studio in Twin Falls, Idaho but eventually returned to Seattle due to his poor health. Frank Kunishige passed away on April 9, 1960.
Identifier: spl_art_367924_54
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1st Ave. S. from S. Dearborn St., February 21, 1956
Seattle; Wash. 1st Ave. So. & Dearborn Ave. Looking north
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00435
Date: 1956-02-21
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