Seattle Municipal Archives
Kiehl-Mann Photograph Collection
Kiehl-Mann Photographers
9945-01
3.5 cubic feet
12 boxes
68 digital image files
1891-1987
English
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The original Kiehl negatives and photograph albums are at the University of Washington Special Collections. Most of Kiehl's photographs were taken while he was stationed at Fort Lawton although images include ones of his family at Fort Lawton, Port Townsend and other locations. Photographs of the family camping, the children posing, and automobile trips, are included with photographs of buildings and work at Fort Lawton. The material documenting Fort Lawton was collected and donated by Sara Smith, the granddaughter of H. Ambrose Kiehl. Copy negatives of Ambrose Kiehl's glass plate negatives are included, along with an index in the form of a photocopy of his photo notebook. The originals are at the University of Washington Special Collections. The material was in the hands of another photographer who lived on Bainbridge Island, Frederick Mann, for a time. Mann's photographs for Fort Lawton taken in the 1970s during the adaptive reuse planning are also included in this collection. Mann's work as an architect for Millegan Jaddi Architectural Engineers of the Yesler Way Incline Bridge is included in this collection. Photographs and background material on Fort Lawton and Discovery Park, from various sources, is included in this collection as well. Copy negatives of buildings in Olympia and buildings in California from the mid-1950s are also in this collection.
H. Ambrose Kiehl was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1865 and attended Ohio State University in the 1880s trained to be a civil engineer. He opened an engineering office (Kiehl & Hogg) in Port Townsend, Washington. Kiehl married Louisa Jean Stock; their first child, Laura Adele Kiehl, was born in 1892. Their second child, Lorena Miriam Kiehl, was born in Seattle in 1895.
In 1895, Kiehl began work with the US Army in Seattle, as his business in Port Townsend was suffering from the 1893 depression. Kiehl was employed to survey the land under consideration for a military post on Magnolia Bluff. He also supervised clearing and grading, laid out the road and building locations, and supervised construction of what was to be Fort Lawton. Kiehl completed assignments at Forts Worden, Flagler and Casey at Admiralty Inlet, Forts Columbia, Canby and Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River, and at Fort William Henry Seward near Haines, Alaska. Louisa Kiehl died of cancer in 1917. In the early 1920s, Kiehl was transferred to Wyoming. He died in September, 1942.
The Kiehl photographs were in the care of Laura Kiehl who lived in Port Townsend. She loaned the collection to the Frederick Mann with the understanding it would be made available to the public at Discovery Park. Frederick Mann was a Seattle architect hired by the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department to photograph the buildings at Fort Lawton. His subsequent interest in the site led to his collection of prints and other historical material.
Records are open to the public.
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Arranged by subject: Seattle Parks, Seattle City Views, Seattle Buildings, Pike Place Market, Seattle Bridges, Seattle City Light Dams, Washington Outdoors, Washington People and Places (not Seattle), Other States, Other Countries, and Art and Business.
[Item and date], Kiehl-Mann Photograph Collection, Record Series 9945-01 Box [number], Folder [number]. Seattle Municipal Archives.
Collection donated by Sara Smith in 2003.
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Kiehl, H. Ambrose
Seattle (Wash.)
Seattle
Discovery Park (Seattle, Wash.)
Fort Lawton (Seattle, Wash.)
Kiehl Photo Collection Grant Report for King County Cultural Resources Division
1994
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Fort Lawton
Fort Lawton Adaptive ReUse
1973-1984
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Fort Lawton
Kiehl Collection - Printing Notes
1987
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Mann Collection - Printing Notes
1984
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Kiehl Photo Notebook (photocopy) and Index Key
1891-1917
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Fort Lawton - Background
1996-2002
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6
Fort Lawton - Newspaper Clippings and Screened Prints
1973-1995
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Fort Lawton - copy of Land donation Claim
1855-1856
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Fort Lawton - Copy of record book
1906
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Salmon Bay - Ole Shillestad - Background
undated
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10
Salmon Bay Charley - Background and prints
undated
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Kiehl 4x5 Copy negatives N-1 to N-257 Missing: 51, 74.96, 105, 106, 144, 201-207, 245-247
1891-1917
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Kiehl 4x5 prints of N-1 to N-256 and others (3 folders)
undated
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Frederick Mann - 4x5 negatvies of Fort Lawton Buildings: 640, 642, 644, 670, 672, 676, 676, 678, 901-907, 909
1984
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Frederick Mann - Fort Lawton - 28 color transparencies: buildings, Daybreak Star ceremony, copy work
1984
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Frederick Mann - Yesler Way Incline Bridge for Millegan Jaddi Architectural Engineers - 40 4x5 negatives
1984
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Frederick Mann - Fort Lawton Building 640 West Elevation - 4x5 Negatives
1987
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Frederick Mann - Fort Lawton Historic District Buildings - 11x14 prints mounted on 16x20 board with descriptions and printing notes
1974
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Fort Lawton and Discovery Park 2.5 x 2.5 color transparency slides : maps and aerial photos 8 slides
undated
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Fort Lawton and Discovery Park 2.5 x 2.5 color transparency slides : Indian ceremony / parking 3 slides
undated
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Fort Lawton and Discovery Park 2.5 x 2.5 color transparency slides : Comfort Stations 4 slides
1974
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Fort Lawton and Discovery Park 2.5 x 2.5 color transparency slides : Record Book 17 slides
undated
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Fort Lawton and Discovery Park 2.5 x 2.5 color transparency slides : Early views 5 slides
undated
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Fort Lawton and Discovery Park 2.5 x 2.5 color transparency slides : Buildings FMM Series 21 slides
undated
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Fort Lawton and Discovery Park 2.5 x 2.5 color transparency slides : Fort construction, parade grounds, troops, general 31 slides
undated
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Discovery Park 2.5 x 2.5 color transparency slides : Trails 31 slides
1974
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Discovery Park 2.5 x 2.5 color transparency slides : Shilestad Scheurman Indian Charlie 7 slides
undated
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Discovery Park 2.5 x 2.5 color transparency slides : Parking areas 6 slides
1974
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10
Discovery Park 2.5 x 2.5 color transparency slides : Graphics 32 slides
1974
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Discovery Park 2.5 x 2.5 color transparency slides : Matching views 9 slides
1974
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Other Forts - Buildings 2.5 x 2.5 slides 9 slides
undated
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Fort Lawton - Early Settlers 2.5 x 2.5 slides 5 slides
undated
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Fort Lawton - Logging, land clearing 2.5 x 2.5 slides 4 slides
1935
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State Parks - Interpretive Centers 2.5 x 2.5 slides 37 slides
undated
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Fort Lawton slide presentations
1974
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17
West Point photographs from Chittendon Report
1908
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Fort Lawton : Photographs from Theodore Peiser Collections, UW Special Collections (photocopies)
1902
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Fort Lawton : Photographs of Land Clearing from UW Special Collections (prints and photocopies)
1930-1935
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Fort Lawton : Buildings and Activities, 6th Engineers, donated by Harry Kelly
1932-1937
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Fort Lawton : Navy Buildings
1984
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Fort Lawton: Building demolition and site restoration, 8x10 color prints
1975-1985
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Fort Lawton: Various subjects from various sources, 8x10 black and white prints
1935-1975
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Fort Lawton : Buildings by Frederick Mann, 8x10 and 4x6 black and white prints
1974
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Fort Lawton : Aerial photographs
1923-1987
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Discovery Park : Stabilization Plans / Maps, 8x10 black and white transparencies
1979-1990
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10
Discovery Park : Maps and Signage
1973-1979
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Fort Lawton Building : Water Color - Powell
1975
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Tree / Cedar Timber, King County, WA : 8x10 black and white transparency from Morris Komedal
undated
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"Fort Lawton's Military Architecture" Photos by Frederick Mann, Seattle Times Sunday Pictorial
1976
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Fort Lawton : Gates / Entrances : US Army Signal Corps, 11x14 black and white prints
1946
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Fort Lawton: Scheurmann
undated
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Fort Lawton : various topics and sources, 11x 14 prints
undated
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Fort Lawton : Kiehl prints, mounted on 11x14 board, N25, 122, 201, 203
undated
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Fort Lawton: Buildings and scenery, 11x14 black and white prints
1974
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Fort Lawton : Buildings, 11x14 black and white prints
1900
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Discovery Park : Program plans / maps, 11x14 black and white prints
1975
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Fort Lawton : Buildings and grounds, 11x14 black and white prints mounted on board
1907-1974
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Fort Lawton : Buildings 11x14 black and white prints mounted on board
1974
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Fort Lawton : Aerial photographs 16x20 black and white prints, mounted and unmounted
1934-1946
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Fort Lawton : West Point Lighthouse /Roswell C Heins, excerts from letter and 11x 14 black and white prints
undated
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Fort Lawton : Ships - Callista, Aleutian, Nippon Marh, 11x14 black and white prints
1922-1957
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Fort Lawton : Hospital and Officers Quarters from 1908 Chittenden report, 11x14 prints mounted on board
1908
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Fort Lawton : Seattle Harbor, Shilshole Bay and Salmon Bay, copies of maps and charts
undated
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Seattle : early skyline and waterfront, 2 11x14 black and white prints, Wilse No 645 and others
1881
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Seattle : skyline
1970
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Olympia - Capital Campus - Temple of Justice - interior and Exterior - 4x6 copy negatives
1986-1987
English.
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California buildings: Douglass House, Holy Innocents church, other businesses, churches, residences, and miscellaneous buildings in Healdsburg California and other towns - 3x4 copy negatives
1954
English.
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Olympia - Capital Campus - Legislative building - 8x10 copy negatives
1988
English.
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Group of women sitting on grass- number 51; bridge construction - number 53 - 2 glass plate negatives 8x10 undated
1900
English.
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