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.
Globe Cellar Restaurant horse-drawn carriage, June 1974
Seattle; Outside Globe Cellar Restaurant at 1st Av. So. & S. Main Str.
Identifier: spl_wl_res_00053
Date: 1974-06
View this itemCoffee Corral, September 1976
Seattle - Coffee Corall - Long standing coffee shop at N.E. corner of 7th Av. & Stewart Str.
Identifier: spl_wl_res_00097
Date: 1976-09
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 itemBeth Barkes in Jack Large studio, Pike Place Market, July 1967
Beth Barkes in Jack Large studio
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Date: 1967-07
View this itemBungalow Magazine, v. 2, no. 12, Dec. 1913
J.M. Waller home on Hunter Boulevard S. in Seattle featured on pages 13-21. Exact location unknown. Five Dayton Avenue bungalows featured on pages 29-38 of December 1913 issue including: Charles M. and Frances L. Simmons at 6727 Dayton Ave N Seattle, WA 98103; Jas. G. and Maude L. Pollock at 6723 Dayton Ave N Seattle, WA 98103; and Mrs. J.W. Seuss at 6713 Dayton Ave N Seattle, WA 98103.
Identifier: spl_bm_531811_1913_2_12
Date: 1913-12
View this itemNorth Pueblo at Taos
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 sixteenth volume, featuring the Tiwa and Keres tribes, was published in 1926.
Identifier: spl_nai_16_546
Date: 1925
View this itemI-5 looking south from Madison St., February 1974
Seattle; View S.E. from Madison St. & 6th Av.
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00030
Date: 1974-02
View this itemView east from the Municipal Building, February 1984
Seattle - View east from 12th floor of Municipal Bldg. Freeway & James Str. are dominant features
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00019
Date: 1984-02
View this itemView SW on Columbia St. from near 9th Ave., December 31, 1972
Seattle; View S.W. from near 9th Av. - Smith Tower upper left; Columbia Str. in foreground (see cobblestone pavement).
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00381
Date: 1972-12-31
View this itemSR 520 connection to I-5, September 25, 1963
Seattle; Wash. View west of Evergreen Bridge access road to freeway & 10th Av. north overpass
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00041
Date: 1963-09-25
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