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.
New England Coffee Shop painted door, August 1954
Seattle; Wash. New England Coffee Shop; Olive Way opposite Times Square Bldg.
Identifier: spl_wl_res_00144
Date: 1954-08
View this itemDance of the sticks at Klukwan Potlatch ceremony, Alaska, October 12, 1898
Identifier: spl_ap_00110
Date: 1898-10-12
View this itemChild on rock at unidentified coastal beach, ca. August 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_68840028
Date: 1961-08
View this itemWorkers driving drift pin into place on third Space Needle leg, ca. July 31, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_68840020
Date: 1961-07-31
View this itemHarold Frye's Broiler St. advertisement, October 25, 1959
Seattle; Wash. Eastlake Ave. Old Chevrolet near restaurant of name on car adv.
Identifier: spl_wl_res_00021
Date: 1959-10-25
View this itemView east at Denny Way and Warren Ave. N., October 1957
Seattle; Wash. Civic Center; Tidewater Oil Co. Warren & Denny; View east
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00524
Date: 1957-10
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 itemWorkers at top of Space Needle and view SE, ca. November 11, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_70090023
Date: 1961-11-11
View this itemParamount Theatre marquee and St. view, November 1981
Seattle - Paramount Theater - Bob Hope - Famous comedian appearing for 5 day performance.
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00001
Date: 1981-11
View this itemPike Place Market ink drawing or screenprint
Drawing or screenprint depicting Pike Place Market at the intersection of 1st Avenue and Pike Street.
Identifier: spl_ps_022
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