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.
Coffee Corral, September 1976
Seattle - Coffee Corall - Long standing coffee shop at N.E. corner of 7th Av. & Stewart Str.
Identifier: spl_wl_res_00097
Date: 1976-09
View this itemView of South Main St. buildings from Occidental Park, June 1974
Seattle; View of North facade of low buildings between Occidental Av. S. Left & 1st Av. S. View S. from Occidental Park.
Identifier: spl_wl_sqr_00044
Date: 1974-06
View this itemBlue Gum Road Arts & Crafts Gallery, April 12, 1971
Seattle; Arts & crafts gallery in Fremont Hotel; One of several; Sale of April 17 on window was date of announced peace march downtown.
Identifier: {}
Date: 1971-04-12
View this itemI-5 from Olive Way overpass, March 1967
Seattle; View north on freeway from Olive Way overpass
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00054
Date: 1967-03
View this itemColiseum Theater marquee and view of front, March 1976
Seattle - Coliseum Theater; N.E. corner 5th Av. & Pike Clark Gable & Carol Lombard formerly of the silver screen.
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00064
Date: 1976-03
View this itemBagley Wright Theater, July 1983
Seattle - Bagley Wright Theater - View S.W. Seattle Center.
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00053
Date: 1983-07
View this itemI-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
View this item2nd Ave. S. and S. Washington St., December 1957
Seattle; Wash. corner of 2nd Ave. So. & Washington Str. [Signs for the Casino Card Room and the Double Header Tavern can be seen at the center of the photograph. The Casino was one of the few spots in Seattle that allowed same sex dancing and the Double Header which was considered by some as the first and longest continually operating gay bar on the West Coast.]
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00453
Date: 1957-12
View this itemMetropolitan Theater front facade, April 1953
Seattle; Wash. Metropolitan Theater.
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00122
Date: 1953-04
View this itemStairway at One Union Square building, June 1982
Seattle - Grand Stairway at S.E. corner of 6th Av. & University St. - View N.E.
Identifier: spl_wl_swy_00024
Date: 1982-06
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