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.
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
View this itemGarden 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
View this itemStreet musicians at the Pike Place Market, March 1978
Seattle - Pike Place Market musicians attracting old & young alike.
Identifier: spl_wl_mnc_00030
Date: 1978-03
View this itemPost Ave. from University St. to Seneca St., August 1974
Seattle; View south on Post Av. from University Str to Seneca Str. Viaduct ramp left is Bay Bldg. - Victoria & Seneca hotel with a Unified brick facade (to be demolished)
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00005
Date: 1974-08
View this itemStandard Oil billboard, December 1959
Seattle; Wash. Christmas 1959 poster.
Identifier: spl_wl_bil_00065
Date: 1959-12
View this item600 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
View this itemView NE from 3rd Ave S. and S. Main St., April 1977
Seattle - View N.E. from third Av. S. & S. Main Str. - White wall on left belongs to Union Gospel Mission
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00408
Date: 1977-04
View this itemPacific Builder and Engineer, v. 5, no. 30, Jul. 27, 1907
Page 5 includes photograph from the Union Foundry Company in Seattle. Page 6 article discusses the Battleship Nebraska.
Identifier: spl_pbe_3022043_1907_05_30
Date: 1907-07-27
View this itemGlobe 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 itemTownship Plats of King County, Washington Territory - Page 05, Township 21N, Range 3E
This atlas shows early land ownership for King County, Washington, providing names and property boundaries of original purchasers, grantees, claimants, etc.
Identifier: spl_map_218451_P05_T21N_R3E
Date: 1889
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