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.
Blue Max Steak House Menu
Located right by Boeing Field, the Blue Max, an aeronautically themed restaurant, was part of the Red Baron Steakhouse chain in California. It held lip-sync contests every Saturday night from 1979 until it closed in 1988.
Identifier: spl_menu_00065
View this itemOrpheum Theater wreckage with stage, September 1967
Seattle; Orpheum Theatre being demolished view N.W.
Identifier: spl_wl_thr_00099
Date: 1967-09
View this itemI-5 construction on Olive Way, November 1961
Seattle; Wash. freeway looking north from Olive Way.
Identifier: spl_wl_fnh_00072
Date: 1961-11
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