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Walter H. Tiedeman collection of photographs and other material, 1896-1927
Overview of the Collection
- Collector
- Tiedeman, Walter H.
- Title
- Walter H. Tiedeman collection of photographs and other material
- Dates
- 1896-1927 (inclusive)18961927
1914-1924 (bulk)19141924 - Quantity
- .42 cubic feet, (1 box, including 221 photographs)
- Collection Number
- 2009.55 (accession)
- Summary
- Photographs of public works projects in Seattle, mostly street paving, and personal photographs of Tiedeman, plus some papers and ephemera
- Repository
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Museum of History & Industry, Sophie Frye Bass Library
P.O. Box 80816
Seattle, WA
98108
Telephone: 2063241126 x102
library@mohai.org - Access Restrictions
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The collection is open to the public by appointment.
- Languages
- English.
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Walter Tiedeman was the son of German immigrants Theodore and Hannah Tiedeman, who came to the United States in 1855 and eventually settled on North Street and Second Avenue in Ballard around 1891. Tiedeman graduated from the School of Mines at the University of Washington in 1901 with a Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering; that same year he ran on the Democratic ticket for City Treasurer in Ballard. Tiedeman was hired in 1902 as computer for the City of Seattle City Engineer's Department, and promoted in 1904 to 2nd grade draughtsman. In 1905, he was appointed to the position of District Engineer, with a transfer to the position of Principal Assistant City Engineer in 1912.
Tiedeman was married in June 1906 to Anna Gertrude Madison in St. Johns, Oregon. She is listed as Tiedeman's widow beginning with the 1928 city directory.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The collection consists largely of photographs of public works projects taking place in Seattle during the period that Tiedeman worked for the City Engineer's office, largely depicting street paving and regrade activities. Many of the photographs depict paving in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood. Also includes an album of photographs from Tiedeman's days as a University of Washington undergraduate, circa 1898-1901, and a few other photographs of Tiedeman. The collection also includes correspondence related to Tiedeman's hiring for various positions in the City Engineer's office, ephemera from his UW days, an invitation to his wedding, and photocopies of newspaper articles in which he is mentioned.
Most of the photographers were taken by James P. Lee, photographer for the City of Seattle's Engineering Department.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
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Restrictions on Use
The Museum of History & Industry is the owner of the materials in the Sophie Frye Bass Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from MOHAI before any reproduction use. The museum does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.
Preferred Citation
Walter H. Tiedeman Collection of Photographs and Other Material, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Arranged in 3 series:
- Photographs
- Photograph albums
- Papers
Location of Collection
3a.4.6Acquisition Information
Source: Ravenna Rare Books, July 2009
Processing Note
One album was disassembled for preservation purposes; the pages have been foldered individually in their original order.
For the photographs taken by City of Seattle photographer James P. Lee, the photographer's number (written on the front of each photograph) is given in the inventory.
Separated Materials
These materials are part of a donation that also included an artifact, a badge marked "City Engineer Ballard." The artifact is cataloged and stored separately by MOHAI’s Collections Department.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
Photographs, 1896-1927Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Public works projects |
1921-1927 | |
Photographs by James Lee
James Patrick Lee worked as a photographer for the Seattle Engineering Department, recording the
developments that shaped the city's landscape in the first half of the 20th century.
The photographer's number is given for each photograph.
|
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Beacon Hill regrade at Dearborn Street 9 photographs
Lee, James (photographer)
|
1923-1924 | |
Box/Folder | ||
1/1 | 1: Ninth Avenue S. and Dearborn regrade area in snow 2 photographs in panorama
Lee 4708
|
1922 November 15 |
1/1 | 2: Ninth Avenue S. regrade area, showing bridge at Dearborn Street and
12th Avenue 2 photographs in panorama
Lee 4804
|
1923 May 9 |
1/1 | 1923 May 9 | |
1/1 | 4: Dearborn Street and bridge at 12th Avenue
Lee 4810
|
1923 June 18 |
1/1 | 5: Bridge across Dearborn Street at 12th Avenue
Lee 4811
|
1923 June 18 |
1/1 | 6: Man using power house at regrade site
Lee 4848
|
1923 October 22 |
1/1 | 1923 October 22 | |
1/1 | 8: Man standing near Koehring Company shovel
Lee 4852
|
1923 October 22 |
1/1 | 9: View of houses and businesses along Dearborn Street
Lee 4909
|
1924 March 6 |
1/1 | 10: Dearborn Street showing bridge
Lee 4913
|
1924 March 21 |
Seattle streets and neighborhoods |
1921-1927 | |
Box/Folder | ||
1/2 | 11-12: Rainier Avenue paving, McClellan Street east of Rainier Avenue,
showing sprinklers 2 photographs
Lee 4560, 4561
|
1921 September 25 |
1/3 | 13: Construction work at Elliott Avenue, south of bay, looking
southeast
Lee 4606
|
1922 June 6 |
1/3 | 14: Construction work at Elliott Avenue, Western Avenue south of
junction with Elliott Avenue, looking north
Lee 4607
|
1922 June 6 |
1/3 | 15: Elliott Avenue, south of Junction with Western Avenue, looking
south
Lee 4608
|
1922 June 6 |
1/4 | 16: Brick paved street near East Olive Place with regrade activity
visible
Lee 4845
|
1923 September 14 |
1/5 | 17: Elliott Avenue
Lee 4862
Bay View Laundry Co. on right
|
1923 October 22 |
1/5 | 18: View of junction of Western and Elliott Avenues showing new paving
on Elliott and streetcar tracks on Western Avenue
Lee 4863
|
1923 October 22 |
1/5 | 19: View of paving on Elliott Avenue
Lee 4864
|
1923 October 22 |
1/5 | 20 : Cobblestone street with streetcar tracks, probably Western
Avenue
Lee 4865
|
1923 October 22 |
1/6 | 21: Street with streetcar tracks, probably East Madison
Street
Lee 4914
|
1924 March 21 |
1/6 | 22-23: View of East Madison Street showing laying of bridge
decking
Lee 4915-4916
|
1924 March 21 |
1/7 | 24-27: Unidentified Seattle streets 4 photographs
Lee 4917-4920
These photographs appear to document paved streets and paving operations. Streetcar tracks are
visible on some of the streets. Possibly same area depicted in following photograph, NE 40th Street near Ninth
Avenue.
|
1924 March 21 |
1/7 | 28: NE 40th Street near Ninth Avenue NE, showing train
tracks
Lee 4921
|
1924 March 21 |
1/8 | 29-31: West Spokane Street bridge
Lee 5402, 5403, 5405
|
1924 |
1/9 | 32: Eastlake Avenue at Harrison Street looking north, showing streetcar
tracks and streetcar in distance
Lee 5909
|
1927 September 15 |
1/9 | 33: Eastlake Avenue at Lynn Street looking north
Lee 5910
|
1927 September 15 |
Photographs by Asahel Curtis
The photographer's number is given for each photograph.
|
undated | |
Box/Folder | ||
1/10 | 34: Newly paved street with sprinklers running
Curtis 42305
|
undated |
1/11 | 35: Man smoothing wet concrete on newly paved street
Curtis 42359
|
undated |
1/12-13 | 36-37: Image of men smoothing wet concrete, ca. 1930s Image of men smoothing wet concrete, ca. 1930s 2 photographs
Curtis 42360, 42362
|
undated |
Other photographs |
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Box/Folder | ||
1/14 | 38: Four men in suits watching man jack hammering on East Marginal
Way
Written on verso: Removing land - cement cushion on E. Marg Way - St Dept
|
1921 |
1/14 | 39-40: Views of raised road and road supports 2 photographs
Negatives on file
|
undated |
Walter Tiedeman and family |
1896-1919 | |
Box/Folder | ||
1/15 | 41: Group portrait of Elks members, including Walter Tiedeman
Caption on photo: Officers of the Washington State Elks Association. Annual Midwinter Meeting.
Seattle, Jan. 30, 1919.
|
1919 January 30 |
1/16 | 42: Tiedeman family home in Ballard
H.(?) W. Stedman , Ballard, Washington (photographer)
Writing on verso: Teidemann's [sic] at home (Ballard) View North Side - Nov-1-96
|
1896 November 1 |
1/17 | 43: Portrait of Walter Tiedeman
Bushnell , Seattle (photographer)
|
circa 1900 |
1/18 | 44-45: Unidentified family groups 2 photographs
Possibly Tiedeman's family (parents and siblings). One photo shows a group outdoors, the other grouped
around a Christmas tree
|
1900-1902 |
Photograph albumsReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
---|---|---|---|
46: Album 1 114 photographs on 68 pages
|
circa 1914-1922 | ||
Box/Folder | Page | ||
1/19-21 | 1-6 | 46.1-46.23: Los Angeles 23 photographs
Images of paved streets and a paved (with brick??) bridge, pipe construction, and tunnels, many of
which are labeled on verso as depicting areas of Los Angeles.
|
undated |
1/22 | 7 | 46.24: Retaining wall along Eastlake Avenue, showing streetcar
tracks |
1913 October 24 |
1/22 | 7 | 46.25: Curbstones and retaining wall at Grand Avenue |
1913 October 24 |
1/22 | 7 | 46.26: Dirt road and retaining wall along 3rd Avenue West |
1913 October 24 |
1/22 | 7 | 46.27: Men working near lumber lined trench |
undated |
1/22 | 8 | 46.28-31: Repaving along Second Avenue 4 photographs
Includes 2 photographs of construction along street and 2 detail views of rail tracks
|
1914 August-September |
1/23 | 9 | 46.32-34: Close views of curb defect (?) 3 photographs
|
undated |
1/23-25 | 10-13 | 46.35-57: Detail and microscopic (?) views of various metals
A handwritten inventory to these photographs is included in the album.
|
1913 February 6; 1915 January 5; undated |
1/25 | 14 | 46.58: Ship canal looking east
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 2589
|
1914 October 7 |
1/26 | 15 | 46.59: Construction along the north shore of the Lake Washington ship
canal
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 2587
|
1914 October 7 |
1/26 | 16 | 46.60: Construction near Lake Washington ship canal
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 2588
|
1914 October 7 |
1/27 | 17 | 46.61: Streets being prepared for paving, probably in Ballard
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 2586
|
1914 October 7 |
1/27 | 18 | 46.62: Dirt road near rail tracks, south on Leary Way from 48th
Street
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 2582
|
1914 October 7 |
1/28 | 19 | 46.63: Rail tracks looking north on Leary Way from 11th NW
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 2583
Magnolia Milling Co. and a lumberyard visible along tracks. |
1914 October 7 |
1/28 | 20 | 46.64: Leary Way from 11th NW, showing men working on rail tracks
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 2581
|
1914 October 7 |
1/29 | 21 | 46.65: Construction, looking east on Leary Way from 17th NW, lumberyard
visible to right
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 2584
|
1914 October 7 |
1/29 | 22 | 46.66: Street being prepared for paving, Ballard
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 2585
|
1914 October 7 |
1/30 | 23 | circa 1915 | |
1/30-31 | 24-25 | 46.68-73: Small stones on ground and in mixer (possibly used as aggregate in
concrete) |
1916 March 15-16 |
1/31-32 | 26-28 | 46.74-76: Men working on crack in concrete base beneath brick paved road, 12the
Avenue and Spring Street
Frank H. Nowell (photographer)
Nowell 16661-16663
|
1916 July 12 |
1/33-35 | 29-34 | 46.77-82: Various paved areas with ruler or other measurement markers |
undated |
1/36 | 35 | 46.83: Second Avenue NE showing paved street and curb
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 4162
|
1919 January 13 |
1/36-37 | 36-37 | 46.84-85: Section of piling with teredo (worm) holes
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 4037-4038
|
1918 April 1 |
1/37 | 38 | 46.86: Broken pieces of pipe on ground |
undated |
1/38 | 39 | 46.87: Construction, possibly on embankment of Montlake cut
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 2601
|
1914 October 14 |
1/38 | 40 | 46.88: Construction, probably paving, at South Lake Union, looking east on
Valley from Boren
James P. Lee (photographer)
Showing rail tracks and Ford Motor Company building at Fairview and Valley
Lee 2590
|
1914 October 7 |
1/39-40 | 41-43 | 46.89-91: Paving operation showing mixer and use of subgrade
templates |
undated |
1/40 | 44 | 46.92: Elliott Avenue at West Mercer Place looking south, showing wood plank
road near railroad tracks
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 4544
|
1921 August 3 |
1/41 | 45 | 46.93: Elliott Avenue at West Mercer Place looking south, showing railroad
tracks
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 4545
|
1921 August 3 |
1/41 | 46 | 46.94: Near Elliott Avenue, looking north (?)
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 4546
|
1921 August 3 |
1/42 | 47 | 46.95: Elliott Avenue and Fifteenth Avenue West
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 4547
|
1921 August 3 |
1/42 | 48 | 46.96: Fifteenth Avenue NW at Leary Way
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 4547
|
1921 August 3 |
1/43 | 49 | 46.97: Streetcar tracks and paving in progress, Fourteenth Avenue NW at Leary
Way
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 4549
|
1921 August 3 |
1/43-44 | 50-52 | 46.98-100: NE 40th Street near Pasadena Place
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 4517-4519
Same street shown in 4918-4920 |
1921 May 12 |
1/45 | 53-54 | 46.101-102: Rainier Avenue paving, McClellan Street east of Rainier Avenue, showing
sprinklers
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 4560-4561
|
1921 September 26 |
1/46-48 | 55-60 | 46.103-108: Paving on 10th Avenue NE (Roosevelt Way) near NE 61st Street
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 4562-4567
|
1921 September 28 |
1/49-51 | 61-66 | 46.110-114: Views of Elliott Avenue from Denny to Garfield
James P. Lee (photographer)
Lee 4590-4595
|
1922 January 4 |
Box | |||
1 | 47: Album 2
62 photographs 3.25 x 3.25 inches
Photographs from Tiedeman's student days and graduation at University of Washington, mostly photographs
of friends, and also views of campus. Also includes photographs of the battleship Iowa,
native hop pickers, the ship Stimson, and views of Seattle.
|
circa 1899-1901 |
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
1/52-54 | 48-50: Employment papers 3 folders
Includes correspondence regarding Tiedeman's eligibility for and appointments as computer (1902) and
draughtsman (1904) for the City of Seattle; and District Engineer (October 1908); and Principal Assistant City Engineer
(1912).
|
1902-1923 |
1/55 | 51: Real estate 1 folder
Includes a deed and correspondence about sale of Seattle property.
|
1922-1924 |
1/56-58 | 52-54: Ephemera 4 folders
Includes a 4 page flyer by petitioners to the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity at UW, of which Tiedeman was a
member; invitation and dance cards for UW dances; dance cards for other dances; and an invitation to Tiedeman's
marriage to Anna Gertrude (1906).
|
1899-1906 |
1/59 | 55: Photocopies of clippings from scrapbook 1 folder
These clippings were photocopied from a scrapbook created by Tiedeman which is not part of the
collection.
|
1898-1912 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Concrete--Washington (State)--Seattle
- Construction--Washington (State)--Seattle
- Grading (Earthwork)--Washington (State)--Seattle
- Pavements--Washington (State)--Seattle
- Road Construction--Washington (State)--Seattle
Personal Names
- Tiedeman, Walter H..--Photographs
Geographical Names
- Ballard (Seattle, Wash.)
- United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Form or Genre Terms
- Photograph albums
- Photographs
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Curtis, Asahel, 1874-1941 (photographer)
- Lee, James Patrick (photographer)