Schooner WAWONA, 1018 Valley Street, Seattle, King County, WA
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Schooner WAWONA, 1018 Valley Street, Seattle, King County, WA
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ship, docks, navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Schooner WAWONA, 1018 Valley Street, Seattle, King County, WA
Picryl description: Public domain image of a mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Schooner WAWONA, 1018 Valley Street, Seattle, King County, WA
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ship, docks, navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Schooner WAWONA, 1018 Valley Street, Seattle, King County, WA
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ship, docks, navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Edward S. Curtis - For strength and visions--Apsaroke
Photograph shows an Apsaroke man, leaning back slightly, with strips of leather attached to his chest and tethered to a pole secured by rocks, part of the piercing ritual of the sun dance. H118531 U.S. Copyrigh... More
Georgetown Steam Plant, South Warsaw Street, King County Airport, Seat...
Significance: The Georgetown Steam Plant is an early reinforced concrete structure housing America's last operable examples of the "first generation" of large scale, vertical steam turbine electric generators. ... More
Georgetown Steam Plant, South Warsaw Street, King County Airport, Seat...
Significance: The Georgetown Steam Plant is an early reinforced concrete structure housing America's last operable examples of the "first generation" of large scale, vertical steam turbine electric generators. ... More
Georgetown Steam Plant, South Warsaw Street, King County Airport, Seat...
Significance: The Georgetown Steam Plant is an early reinforced concrete structure housing America's last operable examples of the "first generation" of large scale, vertical steam turbine electric generators. ... More
Seattle from the water front - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...
Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Edward S. Curtis - Getting water--Apache
An Apache person fills container with water while two horses wait on the banks. H33858 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 132. LC no. 68. Copyright by E.S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Lib... More
[Golden Eyes with Uncle Sam (dog)]
Illustration shows a young woman, "Golden Eyes," dressed in a khaki-colored dress and cap standing with a collie dog named Uncle Sam who holds a "Liberty bond" on his collar. A nude kewpie-like figure bangs a d... More
Fort Lawton, Double Barracks, Discovery Park, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: The second of the two-company barracks constructed on the post. Defines the southeast end of the oval parade ground opposite Officers Row. Completed March 31, 1904, from QMGO Plan No. 75-H. Ori... More
U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King ...
Significance: The U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office (Federal Building, Immigration and Naturalization Service), is significant both architecturally and culturally. Built for the Immigration and Naturaliza... More
Henry Art Gallery, Fifteenth Avenue Northeast at Northeast Campus Park...
Significance: The Horace C. Henry Art Gallery was the first public art museum in the state of Washington. Funds for the building construction and its initial collection were donated to the University of Washin... More
Henry Art Gallery, Fifteenth Avenue Northeast at Northeast Campus Park...
Significance: The Horace C. Henry Art Gallery was the first public art museum in the state of Washington. Funds for the building construction and its initial collection were donated to the University of Washin... More
Strelic Residence, 3715 South Angeline Street, Seattle, King County, W...
Significance: Built in 1892, this house is significant as one of the few remaining early residential buildings constructed in the Columbia City neighborhood of Seattle. The house is also significant as the only... More
Queen Anne Water Tank No. 1, 1410 First Avenue North, Seattle, King Co...
Significance: Queen Anne Water Tank No. 1, completed in 1901, was Seattle's first steel-and-concrete standpipe. The water tank operated in conjunction with the tank immediately adjacent, Queen Anne Water Tank N... More
Fort Lawton, Double Officers Quarters, Discovery Park, Seattle, King C...
Significance: Designed to house two captains' families, this residence was identical to a second that was removed in 1956 to make way for the Air Defense radar antennae installation on Washington Avenue. Compl... More
Fort Lawton, Double Officers Quarters, Discovery Park, Seattle, King C...
Significance: Designed to house two lieutenants' families, this duplex is identical in plan to Officers Quarters #640, #676, and #678. Completed March 31, 1904, from QMGO Plan No. 120-A. Original cost: $13,50... More
Olive Tower, 1624 Boren Avenue, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: The Olive Tower is a fourteen story modernistic apartment house, simply executed in a cream colored stucco finish with ivory colored terra cotta trim. Its vertical emphasis and Gothic treatment o... 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
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
Fort Lawton, Double Officers Quarters, Discovery Park, Seattle, King C...
Significance: One of the first three officers quarters completed, this residence was part of the original unit of buildings constructed by the contractors Nichols and Crothers. The duplex is identical in plan ... More
[Raymond, 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.
Fort Lawton, Double Non-Commissioned Officers Quarters, Discovery Park...
Significance: One of two original double NCO Quarters, this duplex is identical in plan to #905. Completed December 30, 1899, from QMGO Plan No. 82-B. Original cost: $3,218. Two and one-half story and baseme... More
Fort Lawton, Post Exchange & Gymnasium, Discovery Park, Seattle, King ...
Significance: Architecturally the most formal non-residential building on the post. Originally included amenities such as billiard room, lunch counter, reading room, store, and gym. Completed May 2, 1905, fro... More
Fort Lawton, Double Officers Quarters, Discovery Park, Seattle, King C...
Significance: Designed to house two lieutenants' families, this duplex is identical in plan to Officers Quarters #642, #676, and #678. Completed May 31, 1904, from QMGO Plan No. 120A. Original cost: $13,500. ... More
Fort Lawton, Double Officers Quarters, Discovery Park, Seattle, King C...
Significance: Designed to house two lieutenants' families, this duplex is identical in plan to Officers Quarters #642, #676, and #678. Completed May 31, 1904, from QMGO Plan No. 120A. Original cost: $13,500. ... More
Fort Lawton, Band Barracks, Discovery Park, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: Band Barracks has undergone only superficial alteration, retaining a strong sense of original interior spaces and finish. Exterior remains virtually intact. Completed March 31, 1904, from QMGO P... 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
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
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
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Elmer Dixon oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Seat...
Elmer Dixon discusses his childhood in Chicago, Illinois and Seattle, Washington, where he marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., and heard Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leader Stokely Carmich... 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
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
Start of Seattle fire, June 6, 1889, cor. First and Madison
Photograph shows crowd on street watching buildings burn; black smoke billowing up from fire fill the sky. Copyright 1912 by McManus.
Precipice, Porcupine Hill, Skaguay Trail
3 men on trail. Photo copyrighted by LaRoche, Seattle, Wash. No. 2066. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Camps; Gold Rush Klondike; Geogr.; Toll bridges.
Skagua (sic), Alaska / LaRoche, photo, Seattle, Wash.
View of bay and mountains. 49179C U.S. Copyright Office. No. 368.
S.S. "Williamette" leaving for Klondike /
"Shows the steamer backing out from the docks of the Northern Pacific R.R. Co. at Seattle Wash., with its immense load of passengers waving adieux to relatives and friends"--F.Z. Maguire & Co. catalog. 60556 U.... More
Second Avenue, Seattle's principal thoroughfare
H 103659 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr; Street R.R.
Making new ground for a growing city (earth from hills above,) Seattle...
H96058 U.S. Copyright Office No. 9865; U-104556. Copyright 1907 by Underwood & Underwood.
Hiawatha. With him dwelt his dark-eyed daughter
Reenactment of Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, showing girl dressed as Indian. Possibly photographed by F.E. Moore, Middletown, Ohio. No. 24.
Edward S. Curtis - Kalispel scene. Book illustration from Library of C...
Canoes in water, buildings along shore, mountains in background. J139678 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 3130-10. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seat... More
Aberdeen, Wash., 1912, looking west from Dabney Hill, (Grays Harbor)
J169103 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Lon Lewis; May 10, 1912. Photographer's address: Seattle, Washington.
Edward S. Curtis - On Shoalwater Bay. Book illustration from Library o...
Four canoes on large body of water. J182564 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 3444-12. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curti... More
Edward S. Curtis - [Preparing cedar bark--Nakoaktok]
J197400 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 3570. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, v. 10, p. 16.
Mrs. Charlotte V. Gulick - Public domain portrait print
Photograph shows Charlotte Vetter Gulick (1865-1938) who with her husband Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick (1865-1918) founded the Campfire Girls in 1910. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)
Lucy Burns at Seattle - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Photograph shows suffragist Lucy Burns with aviator Terah "T.T." Maroney (1880-1919) in an airplane. Burns threw suffragist literature from the airplane as it flew over Seattle. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)
Far Western delegates to Woman's Party conference. L to R: Miss Emma W...
A group of women standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Edward S. Curtis - Grinding wokas--Klamath
Klamath woman kneeling, preparing wokas on stone slab. J262606 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress) Curtis no. 3936-B. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Cur... More
Indian Republican club from Rosebud Reservation, S.D., 3/10/25
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Bankers offer President cooperation on banking problems. Washington, D...
A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of two men working on a boat, Great Depression...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A black and white photo of a propeller plane. War Production FSA/OWI P...
Annotation on original negative jacket. 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 imag... More
A black and white photo of a large hangar. War Poduction. Office of Wa...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A black and white photo of two men working on a boat. Office of War In...
Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More
A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Informatio...
Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More
Production. B-17 heavy bomber. A skilled team of men and women workers...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Production. B-17 heavy bomber. A Kellar machine duplicating a die for ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17 (Flying...
Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Production. B-17 heavy bomber. A nearly complete B-17F (Flying Fortres...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Fast, expert workers at the Boeing plan...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Production. B-17 heavy bomber. 1200-horsepower Wright engines for B-17...
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-17 (Flying...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flyin...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less
Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17 F (Flyi...
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 person on a skateboard. Office of War Inf...
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
Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Lubricating and servicing a new B-17F (...
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 a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Seattle, Washington. Boeing aircraft plant. Production of B-17F (Flyin...
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 an airplane. Office of War Information Phot...
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
Aaron Copland with Walter Piston, 1960
Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of composer or musician, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
One of what were 55 street clocks in Seattle, Washington, which was kn...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
William Kenzo Nakamura U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, Washington
Built in 1939-1940 by Architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood in Modernistic style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided ... More
View of Space Needle, Seattle, Washington
Public domain photograph of city skyline, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sculpture "Freedom" at the Jackson Federal Building, Seattle, Washingt...
Artist: Philip McCraken, 1979. Cast bronze. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Ph... More
Painting "Three Sets of Twelve" at interior main lobby of the U.S. Cou...
Artist: Michael Fajans, 2004, acrylic on panel; 3 paintings, 9' x 80' each. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by t... More
Sculpture "Pillar Arc" located at the exterior of the U.S. Courthouse,...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of antique sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Painting "Three Sets of Twelve" at interior main lobby of the U.S. Cou...
Artist: Michael Fajans, 2004, acrylic on panel; 3 paintings, 9' x 80' each. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by t... More
Art in the U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, Washington
Artist: Ed Carpenter. Architectural Arts: aluminum, stainless steel, dichronic glass, and stone. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subje... More
Art in the U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, Washington
Artist: Ed Carpenter. Architectural Arts: aluminum, stainless steel, dichronic glass, and stone. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subje... More