Werner Lenggenhager Photo Collection
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.
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I-5 from Seattle Municipal Tower, July 17, 1967
Seattle; View N.E. from 12th floor of Municipal Bldg.
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00025
Date: 1967-07-17
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Garden Theater at 1513 3rd Ave., May 1979
Seattle - "Garden" Theater on Third Avenue To be remodeled into another business.
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00050
Date: 1979-05
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High Relief
Frank Asakichi Kunishige was born in Japan on June 5, 1878. He came to the United States via San Francisco in 1895. After graduating from the Illinois College of Photography, he opened a small photography studio in San Francisco. Kunishige moved to Seattle in 1917. In the same year, he married Gin Kunishige and began working in the studio of Edward S. Curtis where he became acquainted with Ella McBride who he worked for in later years. Kunishige was well known for his use of Pictorialism, a popular painterly style of photography. He developed his photographs on "textura tissue," a paper of his own creation, which allowed him to produce almost dreamlike prints. His work was featured nationally and internationally in exhibitions and publications such as Photo-Era and Seattle's Town Crier. In 1924, Kunishige became one of the founding members of the Seattle Camera Club, a group of local photographers including Kyo Koike, Yukio Morinaga, Iwao Matsushita and Fred Y. Ogasawara who gathered to share techniques and ideas, as well as their deep love of the medium. Although the group was initially solely Japanese, they soon welcomed more members including Ella McBride, their first female member. When World War II struck and the country's Japanese internment policy was put in place, Kunishige and his wife were forced to leave Seattle for Idaho where they were interned at the Minidoka camp. After their release, Kunishige spent two years working at a photography studio in Twin Falls, Idaho but eventually returned to Seattle due to his poor health. Frank Kunishige passed away on April 9, 1960.
Identifier: spl_art_367924_45
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King Street Station interior, ca.
Transcribed from postcard: "Interior of Union Depot." During the early 1900's, there was increasing interest in connecting railroads with Seattle. The high demand and competition between railways resulted in two railway stations being built directly next to each other at 4th Avenue and Jackson Street. King Street Station (the interior of which is depicted in this postcard) was constructed in 1906 and can be distinguished by its tower. Union Station, originally known as the Oregon and Washington Station, was constructed in 1911. Confusingly, both stations were sometimes referred to as "union stations" or "union depots" due to the fact that multiple railroad lines were shared within the same terminal. For a good example of the differences between Union Station and King Street Station see spl_pc_01011 where Union Station appears in the foreground and King Street Station appears in the background.
Identifier: spl_pc_01007
Date: 1911
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Standard Oil billboard, December 1959
Seattle; Wash. Christmas 1959 poster.
Identifier: spl_wl_bil_00065
Date: 1959-12
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600 block of Post Ave., September 1963
Seattle; Wash. Post Ave. View So. 600 block; Old Steam Plant to right
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00362
Date: 1963-09
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Jewish Transcript, v. 14, no. 35, Oct. 29, 1937
Identifier: spl_jt_3018328_14_35
Date: 1937-10-29
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View south from 5th Ave. and Pine St., 1887
Transcribed from photograph: "Views. From Fifth Avenue and Pine Street. Looking South. 1887. 1. Coppin's water works. 2. Sixth Street School. 3. Providence hospital. 4. Territorial University."
Identifier: spl_shp_5170
Date: 1887
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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
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Apartments at Pine St. and Terry Ave., November 1976
Seattle - Apartment house at N.W. corner of Terry Av. & Pine Str. - View N.W.
Identifier: spl_wl_apt_00085
Date: 1976-11
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