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Charles Plummer's House, 1885
Transcribed from photograph: "Houses. Plummer, Charles. House at Northeast corner of Jackson St. and Occidental St. Built 1854; additions made 1859; demolished by fire June 6, 1889. 1885."
Identifier: spl_shp_15007
Date: 1885
View this itemLouisa Denny, ca. 1910
Transcribed from photograph: "Portrait, looking to the right (three quarters view)."
Identifier: spl_shp_40009
Date: 1900?
View this itemGrand Trunk Pacific dock on fire, July 30, 1914
Transcribed from photograph: "Seattle Fire. July 30, 1914. Grand Trunk Pacific dock on fire."
Identifier: spl_shp_21700
Date: 1914-07-30
View this itemForward deck of Battleship New Mexico, September 12, 1919
Transcribed from photograph: "Pacific Fleet. Review, Sept. 12-14, 1919. Battleship new Mexico. Forward deck showing 14 inch guns. Flagship of Admiral Rodman."
Identifier: spl_shp_14585
Date: 1919-09-12
View this itemRiverside School., ca. 1920
Transcribed from photograph: "Seattle Schools. Riverside School. Detroit and Juneau. Built 1888; annexed 1908; closed 1926. Exterior. Frame. Three-quarter view of front and right side."
Identifier: spl_shp_22896
Date: 1920?
View this itemView north from 1st Ave. and Cherry, 1870
Transcribed from front of photograph: "Streets. Front Street [1st Ave.]. 1870. Looking North from Cherry Street. 1. Intelligencer building. 2. L. A. Treen shoe store. 3. S. L. Benjamin book store." Transcribed from back of photo: "F. W. Wald, hardware. Reinig store (agent for Singer sewing machines). Over Reinig's, Puget Sound Business College. Left side: Intelligencer building. Treen & Co. shoe store. S.L. Benjamin book store."
Identifier: spl_shp_5174
Date: 1870
View this itemBaseball team on the stairs of the Emerson Building in Ballard, ca. 1900
Transcribed from photograph: "Ballard Baseball Team." Team appears to be on the stairs of the same building that appears in spl_shp_40020 where it is identified as the Emerson Building in Ballard.
Identifier: spl_shp_40023
Date: 1910
View this itemPacific Builder and Engineer, v. 5, no. 24, Jun. 15, 1907
Page 4 article discusses the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and includes portrait of Frank P. Allen Jr., Director of Works for the exposition.
Identifier: spl_pbe_3022043_1907_05_24
Date: 1907-06-15
View this itemPacific Builder and Engineer, v. 6, Index, July-December 1908
Index to the second half of Volume 6.
Identifier: spl_pbe_3022043_1908_06_Index2
Date: 1908
View this itemCatherine Maynard at tomb of David Maynard in Lakeview Cemetery, 1903
Transcribed from photograph: "Portraits. Maynard, Catherine, Troutman (Mrs. David S. Maynard) 1816-1906. At the tomb of her husband, Lakeview Cemetery. 1903. First nurse in Seattle."
Identifier: spl_shp_5208
Date: 1903
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