U.S. Coast Guard Cutter FIR, Puget Sound Area, Seattle, King County, W...
Photos 1-33 were taken while the FIR was mothballed at the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in Benicia, California. Significance: Designed a National Historic Landmark for her exceptional national significance, the FIR... More
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter FIR, Puget Sound Area, Seattle, King County, W...
Photos 1-33 were taken while the FIR was mothballed at the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in Benicia, California. Significance: Designed a National Historic Landmark for her exceptional national significance, the FIR... More
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter FIR, Puget Sound Area, Seattle, King County, W...
Photos 1-33 were taken while the FIR was mothballed at the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in Benicia, California. Significance: Designed a National Historic Landmark for her exceptional national significance, the FIR... More
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter FIR, Puget Sound Area, Seattle, King County, W...
Photos 1-33 were taken while the FIR was mothballed at the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in Benicia, California. Significance: Designed a National Historic Landmark for her exceptional national significance, the FIR... More
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter FIR, Puget Sound Area, Seattle, King County, W...
Photos 1-33 were taken while the FIR was mothballed at the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in Benicia, California. Significance: Designed a National Historic Landmark for her exceptional national significance, the FIR... More
Montlake Bridge, Spanning Montlake Cut at State Route 513, Seattle, Ki...
Significance: This bridge, a Seattle landmark, is one of six bascule bridges based on a design developed by the City of Seattle which was derived from the Chicago bascule bridge type. It is unique because of i... More
Aurora Avenue Bridge, Spanning Lake Washington Ship Channel, Seattle, ...
Significance: The Aurora Avenue Bridge, a nearly 3,000-foot steel cantilever structure is one of Seattle's longest and tallest spans. It provided an important early crossing of the Lake Washington Ship Canal f... More
R-Boat Pirate, The Center for Wooden Boats, Seattle, King County, WA
Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Fort Lawton, Quartermaster Storehouse, Discovery Park, Seattle, King C...
Significance: This building converted from warehouse to office use during World War II. Completed March 31, 1905, from QMGO Plan No. 116-A. Original cost: $11,997. One and one-half story plus basement frame ... More
Lightship No. 83, South Lake Union Pier, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: Lightship No. 83 is one of three surviving lightships and "the oldest on the West Coast." Of the three surviving lightships, "only No. 83 has retained her original marine steam engine and machine... More
Lightship No. 83, South Lake Union Pier, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: Lightship No. 83 is one of three surviving lightships and "the oldest on the West Coast." Of the three surviving lightships, "only No. 83 has retained her original marine steam engine and machine... More
Lightship No. 83, South Lake Union Pier, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: Lightship No. 83 is one of three surviving lightships and "the oldest on the West Coast." Of the three surviving lightships, "only No. 83 has retained her original marine steam engine and machine... More
Lightship No. 83, South Lake Union Pier, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: Lightship No. 83 is one of three surviving lightships and "the oldest on the West Coast." Of the three surviving lightships, "only No. 83 has retained her original marine steam engine and machine... More
U. S. Courthouse, 1010 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: At the time of its completion in August 1940, the United States Courthouse in Seattle was the first building in the West to be designated solely as a Federal courthouse. It was the second Federal... More
U. S. Courthouse, 1010 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: At the time of its completion in August 1940, the United States Courthouse in Seattle was the first building in the West to be designated solely as a Federal courthouse. It was the second Federal... More
San Mateo Ferry, South end of Lake Union, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: Steam ferryboat employed on San Francisco Bay, and later on Puget Sound. Last remaining steam powered auto ferry of a once larger fleet on the West Coast. Also the last steam powered auto ferry l... More
San Mateo Ferry, South end of Lake Union, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: Steam ferryboat employed on San Francisco Bay, and later on Puget Sound. Last remaining steam powered auto ferry of a once larger fleet on the West Coast. Also the last steam powered auto ferry l... More
San Mateo Ferry, South end of Lake Union, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: Steam ferryboat employed on San Francisco Bay, and later on Puget Sound. Last remaining steam powered auto ferry of a once larger fleet on the West Coast. Also the last steam powered auto ferry l... More
Alaskan Way Viaduct and Battery Street Tunnel, Seattle, King County, W...
Significance: The Alaskan Way Viaduct is significant for its double-deck configuration, the first such bridge built in the state of Washington. The structure encompasses two different designs and crosses over ... More
Alaskan Way Viaduct and Battery Street Tunnel, Seattle, King County, W...
Significance: The Alaskan Way Viaduct is significant for its double-deck configuration, the first such bridge built in the state of Washington. The structure encompasses two different designs and crosses over ... More
Alaskan Way Viaduct and Battery Street Tunnel, Seattle, King County, W...
Significance: The Alaskan Way Viaduct is significant for its double-deck configuration, the first such bridge built in the state of Washington. The structure encompasses two different designs and crosses over ... More
Alaskan Way Viaduct and Battery Street Tunnel, Seattle, King County, W...
Significance: The Alaskan Way Viaduct is significant for its double-deck configuration, the first such bridge built in the state of Washington. The structure encompasses two different designs and crosses over ... More
Alaskan Way Viaduct and Battery Street Tunnel, Seattle, King County, W...
Significance: The Alaskan Way Viaduct is significant for its double-deck configuration, the first such bridge built in the state of Washington. The structure encompasses two different designs and crosses over ... More
Alaskan Way Viaduct and Battery Street Tunnel, Seattle, King County, W...
Significance: The Alaskan Way Viaduct is significant for its double-deck configuration, the first such bridge built in the state of Washington. The structure encompasses two different designs and crosses over ... More
Alaskan Way Viaduct and Battery Street Tunnel, Seattle, King County, W...
Significance: The Alaskan Way Viaduct is significant for its double-deck configuration, the first such bridge built in the state of Washington. The structure encompasses two different designs and crosses over ... More
Alaskan Way Viaduct and Battery Street Tunnel, Seattle, King County, W...
Significance: The Alaskan Way Viaduct is significant for its double-deck configuration, the first such bridge built in the state of Washington. The structure encompasses two different designs and crosses over ... More
Alaskan Way Viaduct and Battery Street Tunnel, Seattle, King County, W...
Significance: The Alaskan Way Viaduct is significant for its double-deck configuration, the first such bridge built in the state of Washington. The structure encompasses two different designs and crosses over ... More
Alaskan Way Viaduct and Battery Street Tunnel, Seattle, King County, W...
Significance: The Alaskan Way Viaduct is significant for its double-deck configuration, the first such bridge built in the state of Washington. The structure encompasses two different designs and crosses over ... More
Alaskan Way Viaduct and Battery Street Tunnel, Seattle, King County, W...
Significance: The Alaskan Way Viaduct is significant for its double-deck configuration, the first such bridge built in the state of Washington. The structure encompasses two different designs and crosses over ... More
Native Americans - Standing Bear
Photo by Heyn. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
Lumbering in the Cascade Mountains, near Seattle, Wash.: [A giant doug...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Edward S. Curtis - White River Valley--Apache
Three Apache men riding pack horses along rocky bottom land. Curtis no. 118. LC no. 29. Copyright by E.S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North Americ... More
Edward S. Curtis - Brulé war party
Brulé Indians, many wearing war bonnets, on horseback. H104313 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2483-07. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American India... More
Edward S. Curtis - [Apache medicine cap and fetish]
H104254 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1945-07.. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, suppl., v. 1, p. 40.
Edward S. Curtis - Qahatika women resting in Harvest Field--Qahatika
Three Qahatika women sitting on ground with kiho carriers and pot nearby, saguaro cacti and mountains in background. H102117 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress) Curtis no. 2... More
Edward S. Curtis - The Oath--Apsaroke
Three Apsaroke men gazing skyward, two holding rifles, one with object skewered on arrow pointed skyward, bison skull at their feet. H118535 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2627-08. Men identified by Library ... More
Hiawatha. Out of childhood into manhood
Reenactment of Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, showing young man dressed as Hiawatha. Possibly photographed by F.E. Moore, Middletown, Ohio. No. 20.
Edward S. Curtis - The mythic tree
Tree in field. No. 2814-08. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, suppl. v. 4, p. 188.
[Sluiskan Falls, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington] / Asahel Cur...
No. 21807. National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
War game-Naval Reserve going ashore
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More
War game-10 in. gun practice- SEATTLE
Photo shows the USS Washington which was renamed the Seattle in Nov. 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)
Mrs. Marie L. Baldwin - Public domain portrait print
Photograph shows lawyer Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin (1863-1952), a Chippewa Indian who was the first Native American to graduate from the Washington College of Law in 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Log dump at Pysht, Clallam Co., Washington
Photograph shows crane dumping logs into the water.
Senator Harreld & Rep. Montgomery with Osage Indians, 2/25/26
A group of people standing in front of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Altocknei "Lone Teppee" at Museum, [3/16/26]
Public domain photograph of indigenous native people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Edward S. Curtis - Wichita grass-house
J293348 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, Suppl. v. 19, p. 654.
Alice in Wonderland - Public domain poster, Music division, Library of...
Text on Poster: Seattle Children’s Theatre Presents U. of W. Puppeteers in “Alice in Wonderland” A Full Length Puppet Play with Music Saturday Matinees 2:00 p.m Beginning Apr. 9th Federal Theatre Rainier... More
President gets huge invitation to attend National Rally of young democ...
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ah Wilderness! - Public domain poster, Music division, Library of Cong...
Text on Poster: Federal Theatre Metropolitan Theatre “Ah, Wilderness!” By Eugene O’Neill 4 Days Mar 29 to Apr. 1 Inc. 2 Shows Daily Matinees 2 p.m. Evenings 8:30 p.m. (Content)
An old black and white photo of a man. America during Great Depression...
To identify this image it may help to search for images that have neighboring call numbers, are similar in appearance, and have titles. There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist. Transfer; Un... More
Painting "The Effects of Good and Bad Government" at the William Kenzo...
Artist: Caleb Ives Bach, 1985. Oil on canvas on masonite board. Building built in 1939-1940 by Architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood in Modernistic style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Ser... More
A black and white photo of an airplane in a hangar. Office of War Info...
Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More
Boeing aircraft plane, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flyin...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flyin...
Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Fast, expert workers at the Boeing plan...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F(Flying...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flyin...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flyin...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flyin...
Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Pulling a plaster pattern from a mold f...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Production. B-17F heavy bomber. Tubing bent to specified shapes and re...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of street life, food vendor, city market, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Boeing aircraft plane, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17 (Flying...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Production. B-17F heavy bomber. Raw material for the building of B-17F...
Public domain photograph related to Germany, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Production. B-17 heavy bomber. The bombardier's compartment in the nos...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Production. B-17 heavy bomber. An Army sentry guards new B-17F (Flying...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A black and white photo of a propeller plane. Office of War Informatio...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939
To identify this image it may help to search for images that have neighboring call numbers, are similar in appearance, and have titles. There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist. Transfer; Un... More
International Women's Day, 1976, Sat. 6 Mar
Posters are variants; colors differ. Duplicate of POS 6 - US, no. 955. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.
Duwamish Drive-In, Seattle, Washington
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Theaters. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph... More
One of what were 55 street clocks in Seattle, Washington, which was kn...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
One of what were 55 street clocks in Seattle, Washington, which was kn...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Han Yang Teriyaki Restaurant, Seattle, Washington
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Food. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph arc... More
Sculpture "Pillar Arc" located at the exterior of the U.S. Courthouse,...
Artist: Ming Fay, 2004. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Car... More
The "clockhouse" building at Goddard College's Greatwood Campus in Pla...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. With predecessor institutions dating to 1863, Goddard was founded in 1938 as an experimental and non-traditional educational instituti... More
Some of the more than 40,000 plants within the Amazon Spheres, three s...
Designed by NBBJ, the glass domes are covered in pentagonal hexecontahedron panes. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 201... More
Aerial view of downtown Seattle, Washington, bisected by several lanes...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More
Fishing boats, moored at Seattle, Washington's, Fishing Terminal Docks
Many of the boats anchored here regularly fish in waters as far away as Alaska, more than 1,700 miles to the northwest. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Caro... More
Aerial view of the Seattle, Washington, skyline
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More
Aerial view of the Seattle, Washington, waterfront and downtown skylin...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More
Aerial view of Seattle, Washington, with a focus on the Hiram M. Chitt...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More
Boats at the Fishermen's Terminal docks in Seattle, Washington
Many of the boats moored here ply the waters of distant Alaska and bring back catches of wild salmon and other seafood to this large Pacific Northwest city. Title, date and keywords based on information provide... More
Boats at the Fishermen's Terminal docks in Seattle, Washington
Many of the boats moored here ply the waters of distant Alaska and bring back catches of wild salmon and other seafood to this large Pacific Northwest city. Title, date and keywords based on information provide... More
Aerial view of a Seattle, Washington, shipyard
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More
A Washington toothpick-Ship mast being shipped from Port Blakely Mills...
H45521 U.S. Copyright Office No. 13619. Copyright 1904 by B. L. Singley.
Second Ave. from Yester Way, Seattle
J237942 U.S. Copyright Office No. 13721. Copyrighted by Keystone View Company.
One Third of a Nation - theatrical playbill, public domain image
A playbill (program or brochure that is distributed to theater patrons prior to or during a performance that contains information about the play, its cast, and crew, as well as other details such as the theater... More
See How They Run - theatrical playbill, public domain image
A playbill (program or brochure that is distributed to theater patrons prior to or during a performance that contains information about the play, its cast, and crew, as well as other details such as the theater... More
Fort Lawton, Double Officers Quarters, Discovery Park, Seattle, King C...
Significance: The first captains' quarters constructed on the post and the largest of the Double Officers Quarters. The only duplex with a fully finished third floor. Completed December 30, 1899, from QMGO Pl... More
Fort Lawton, Double Barracks, Discovery Park, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: The largest and one of the first buildings completed on the post. The older of the two-company barracks, first occupied in July of 1901. Served as barracks for the Women's Army Corps in World Wa... More
Sand Point Naval Station Puget Sound, Building No. 26 South, 7400 Sand...
Survey number: HABS WA-224-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sand Point Naval Station Puget Sound, Building No. 26 South, 7400 Sand...
Survey number: HABS WA-224-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sand Point Naval Station Puget Sound, Building No. 26 South, 7400 Sand...
Survey number: HABS WA-224-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sand Point Naval Station Puget Sound, Building No. 26 South, 7400 Sand...
Survey number: HABS WA-224-B Public domain photograph of attic, house frame, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fox Theater, Seventh Avenue & Olive Way, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: The Music Hall Theatre in Seattle was an outstanding example of the golden age of the American picture palace. Designed in an eclectic Spanish Renaissance idiom, the theatre was considered the fi... More
Fox Theater, Seventh Avenue & Olive Way, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: The Music Hall Theatre in Seattle was an outstanding example of the golden age of the American picture palace. Designed in an eclectic Spanish Renaissance idiom, the theatre was considered the fi... More
Fox Theater, Seventh Avenue & Olive Way, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: The Music Hall Theatre in Seattle was an outstanding example of the golden age of the American picture palace. Designed in an eclectic Spanish Renaissance idiom, the theatre was considered the fi... More
Fox Theater, Seventh Avenue & Olive Way, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: The Music Hall Theatre in Seattle was an outstanding example of the golden age of the American picture palace. Designed in an eclectic Spanish Renaissance idiom, the theatre was considered the fi... More
Fox Theater, Seventh Avenue & Olive Way, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: The Music Hall Theatre in Seattle was an outstanding example of the golden age of the American picture palace. Designed in an eclectic Spanish Renaissance idiom, the theatre was considered the fi... More
Fox Theater, Seventh Avenue & Olive Way, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: The Music Hall Theatre in Seattle was an outstanding example of the golden age of the American picture palace. Designed in an eclectic Spanish Renaissance idiom, the theatre was considered the fi... More
[Seaton, Seattle Team, baseball card portrait]
Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.