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 itemLouisa Denny, ca. 1910
Transcribed from photograph: "Portrait, looking to the right (three quarters view)."
Identifier: spl_shp_40009
Date: 1900?
View this itemHibble and Hyde's window with Okanagan Valley String Band sign, February 1977
Seattle - Pioneer Square - Fat Tuesday event.
Identifier: spl_wl_res_00101
Date: 1977-02
View this itemCentral Loan & Sporting Goods and 49er's Tavern on 1st Ave., January 1975
Seattle; 1000 block - 1st Av. Eastside.
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00149
Date: 1975-01
View this itemWinter - Apsaroke
In 1906, Edward S. Curtis received funding from J.P. Morgan to begin work on "The North American Indian," a twenty volume set of photographs and text documenting Native American tribes throughout the western United States. The fourth volume, featuring the Crow and Hidatsa tribes, was published in 1909.
Identifier: spl_nai_04_127
Date: 1908
View this itemThe Townhouse, March 1958
Seattle; Wash. The Townhouse on 1400 Hubbell Place; View N.E. to Pike Str.
Identifier: spl_wl_apt_00087
Date: 1958-03
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 itemDemolition of apartment building on Pike for I-5, January 28, 1962
Seattle; Wash. View S.W. at Eastlake & Howell St. from Mercer St.
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00249
Date: 1962-01-28
View this itemColiseum Theater classical facade decorations, October 1981
Seattle - Coliseum Theatre detail on Pike St.
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00065
Date: 1981-10
View this itemBurlesque theater entrance with advertising at 1st Ave. and Madison St., June 1958
Seattle; Wash. 1st Ave. near Marion [Madison].
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00113
Date: 1958-06
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