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 Madison St. overpass, April 22, 1967
Seattle; Freeway; View S.E. from Madison
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00016
Date: 1967-04-22
View this itemBrasserie Pittsbourg entrance, March 3, 1970
Seattle Pioneer Place; Formerly Pittsburg Lunch in Pioneer Bldg. Has been upgraded into a popular and smart cafe.
Identifier: spl_wl_res_00035
Date: 1970-03-03
View this itemMoore Hotel and Moore Theatre, April 1977
Seattle - View S.E. to Moore Hotel & Theatre - 1932 - second Av. - Built 1908 - Historic site (book pg. 43)
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00003
Date: 1977-04
View this itemMoore Hotel, Moore Theatre, and Josephinum, March 1975
Seattle - View S.E. to Moore Theater & Hotel & Josephinum.
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00016
Date: 1975-03
View this itemRainier Club on 4th Ave., January 1984
Seattle - Left: Bank of California - Center: Rainier Clubhouse - Right: Columbia Center.
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00267
Date: 1984-01
View this itemMan at waterfront and glaciers in Alaska, ca. 1899
Uncaptioned photograph showing Alaskan glaciers, blocks of ice and waterway at an unknown location. A man with a walking stick stands at the left of the photo at the water's edge.
Identifier: spl_ap_00060
Date: 1899?
View this itemFamily fallout shelter billboard, December 1959
Seattle; Wash. current civil defense poster
Identifier: spl_wl_bil_00064
Date: 1959-12
View this itemRoy DeGrief municipal traffic judge reelection billboard, 1958
Seattle; Wash. General election; Nov. 1958.
Identifier: spl_wl_bil_00051
Date: 1958
View this itemSeattle First National Bank billboard, February 22, 1959
Seattle; Wash. Bank poster
Identifier: spl_wl_bil_00006
Date: 1959-02-22
View this itemEntrance to the Joshua Green Building, 1986
Seattle - Left: Entrance on left to the Joshua Green Bldg. near 4th Av. & Pike St. View west.
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00276
Date: 1986
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