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.
Stairway 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
View this itemThe Town Crier, v.7, no.20, May 18, 1912
Identifier: spl_tc_915126_1912_07_20
Date: 1912-05-18
View this itemThe Town Crier, v.8, no.28, Jul. 12, 1913
Page 1 image shows a Christofferson Flying Boat in the air over Lake Washington. The accompanying article on page 5 describes flying over various points in Seattle including the construction site of the Lake Washington Ship Canal. Page 3 article "Seattle's Week at Home" discusses the upcoming Potlatch festival.
Identifier: spl_tc_915126_1913_08_28
Date: 1913-07-12
View this itemSR 520 bridges at Union Bay, September 25, 1963
Seattle; Union Bay; View east Evergreen Point Floating Bridge approaches & ramps
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00039
Date: 1963-09-25
View this itemIce Follies billboard, April 1969
Seattle; Poster of 1969; Peggy Fleming; Gold medal winner at 1968 Olympic games.
Identifier: spl_wl_bil_00033
Date: 1969-04
View this item1118 and 1120 1st Ave., April 12, 1976
Seattle - offices on 1st Ave. 1100 block
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00405
Date: 1976-04-12
View this itemRocky runoff channel, en route to Palo Alto with Kathy Hansen, October 1967
Olympic Park rocky runoff channel [incorrect]
Identifier:
Date: 1967-10
View this itemNew 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 itemClose up of Exotica Studios strip club sign, November 1979
Seattle - Sign was the last one before permanent closure; 700 block Pike St. north.
Identifier: spl_wl_sex_00013
Date: 1979-11
View this itemPencil sketches of CCC camps: drilling for blasting - the jack-hammer crew; Lake Cushman, Wash.
Identifier: spl_art_N779Pe01
Date: 1934
View this item