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.
Showboat Theatre, 1953
Seattle; Wash. Showboat Theatre of the University of Wash. from Portage Bay.
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00111
Date: 1953
View this itemView east on Spring St. from 4th Ave., February 1957
Seattle; Wash. 4th & Spring looking east; Old Public Library to right
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00371
Date: 1957-02
View this itemChut Sing Bakery Menu
Opened in 1977 by four non-Chinese women - Leslee Engler, Pattie Rudiger, Cherie Furtado, and Cheryl Tyler - who met in Tai Chi class, this bakery served Chinese pastries. The owners taught themselves to make their baked goods from cookbooks and trial-and-error.
Identifier: spl_menu_00170
View this itemWendy's Hamburgers, December 1978
Seattle - View N.W. from 4th Av. bus stop near Union Str.
Identifier: spl_wl_res_00210
Date: 1978-12
View this itemBuilding demolition at Olive Way and 8th Ave., December 3, 1972
Seattle; Demolition of store-hotel & cafe bldg. S.W. corner of Olive Way & 8th Av.
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00102
Date: 1972-12-03
View this itemI-5 construction at Seneca St., March 18, 1962
Seattle; Wash. View north from Seneca on freeway.
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00257
Date: 1963-03-18
View this itemKing County Central Blood Bank, 1947
Transcribed from photograph: "Buildings. King County central blood bank. Exterior. 1947. St. James Towers in background. Modern. Naramore, Bain, Brady & Johanson, and Joseph Wohleb, architects."
Identifier: spl_shp_20013
Date: 1947
View this itemJakk Corsaw, Highway Department Dave, and woman on bench, Pike Place Market courtyard, May 1967
Corsaw on courtyard bench with Highway Department Dave and wife, girlfriend
Identifier:
Date: 1967-05
View this itemVictor Rosellini's Restaurant, March 1958
Seattle; Wash. Rossellini's; Well known Seattle restaurant; 610 Pine Str.
Identifier: spl_wl_res_00221
Date: 1958-03
View this itemSeattle Chinese Post - English Ed., v.4, no.1, Jan. 5, 1985
Volume and issue numbering begins with vol. 6, no. 8. Volume and Issue numbers for earlier issues are based on the later volumes.
Identifier: spl_nwa_1258970_19850105
Date: 1985-01-05
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