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.
SR 520 from overpass near MOHAI, October 13, 1963
Seattle; Wash. View east from overpass at Museum of History and Industry; Laurelhurst upper left
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00044
Date: 1963-10-13
View this itemWestside of 1400 block of 1st Ave., May 1976
Seattle - 1400 block - 1st Av. west side near Market entrance - View N.W.
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00169
Date: 1976-05
View this itemI-5 construction near Montlake Bridge, November 1962
Seattle; Wash. approach to 2nd Lake Wash. Bridge; To left is former entrance to Museum of H&I View from overpass
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00086
Date: 1962-11
View this itemView NE on Madison St. from Federal Building, April 20, 1975
Seattle; View from 32nd floor of Federal Building - Madison St. bisects area of important cultural & business buildings.
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00402
Date: 1975-04-20
View this itemFord billboard, February 7, 1959
Seattle; Wash. Commercial poster
Identifier: spl_wl_bil_00042
Date: 1959-02-22
View this itemPractical joke on Chief Maquinna, 1785
Parker McAllister, born in 1903 in Massachusetts, was a Seattle Times artist from 1924 to 1965. McAllister started his career as an illustrator at 14 for a Spokane publication; he joined the art staff at the Seattle Times in 1920. His first Sunday magazine cover was a poster-type illustration celebrating the University of Washington crew races in spring 1924. During McAllister's career, he created illustrations depicting “local color” events and situations now routinely handled by photographers. As the technology improved, he expanded his repertoire - he illustrated articles, drew covers for special sections and the weekly Seattle Sunday Times Magazine, and drew diagrams, comics, cartoons, and portraits for the Times’ editorial page. In 1956, an exhibition of his watercolor and oil paintings of Pacific Northwest scenes and historical incidents - including some paintings from the “Discovery of the Pacific Northwest” series - were exhibited at the Washington State Historical Society Museum in Tacoma. He was also a member of the Puget Sound Group of Men Painters. McAllister retired from the Seattle Times in 1965; he passed away in Arizona in 1970.
Identifier: spl_art_291985_15.141
Date: 1955
View this itemView north from Union St. and 5th Ave., June 1958
Seattle; Wash. Union & 5th Ave. looking north; New Logan Bldg. at N.E. corner going up.
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00285
Date: 1958-06
View this itemSummer afternoon in Occidental Park, August 1973
Seattle; Occidental Park on a summer noontime; View N.W.
Identifier: spl_wl_sqr_00048
Date: 1973-08
View this itemCalla lily [?] planted in a toilet, April 1977
Seattle - Tillicum Place - Impromptu planning in newly reconstructed place minus flowers
Identifier: spl_wl_mnc_00040
Date: 1977-04
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
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