An Older View of Washington State

Clyde Grainger 1909 Topographical Map of Washington State

From research I have gleaned that Grainger did this map while working after college for the Washington State in putting together various projects on the geology, topography, and road materials of the state. Some of this work was collected in the Washington Bulletin of 1911, The Road Materials of Washington, by Henry Landes, assisted by Olaf Stromme and Clyde Grainger.

Soon after this project, Grainger moved on to drafting for architect Harlan Thomas in Seattle.

From Thomas’ biography with Pacific Coast Architecture Database:

https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/architects/2255/

“About 1910, Thomas entered into the first of several partnerships which would be the focus of his professional career thereafter:
Thomas, Russell and Rice
Thomas and Grainger
Thomas, Grainger and Thomas (with Clyde Grainger (1887–1958) and his own son, Donald P. Thomas (1898–1970)).

Among the best known of the projects of these partnerships are the Corner Market Building (1911–12) in the Pike Place Market, and (in joint venture with W. Marbury Somervell) several branch libraries in Seattle—Queen Anne, Columbia, and Henry L. Yesler (now Douglass-Truth). The best-known project of the Thomas, Grainger and Thomas partnership is the Art Deco-influenced Harborview Hospital (1929–31).

Pikes place design:
The 3-story Corner Market building (Harlan Thomas & Clyde Grainger 1912; rehabilitation by Karlis Rekevics, 1975) sits on the right as one enters the Market along Pike Street. In its early years it included daystalls, and the businesses facing onto First Avenue were open-fronted. The Three Girls Bakery, the first known business in the Corner Market, is now located in the adjacent Sanitary Market. The basement was home to Patti Summers’ jazz club for over two decades before becoming Can Can in 2006; the building is also home to anarchist bookstore Left Bank Books, as well as numerous other businesses.[139][142][143]

Following his career as an Architect, Grainger served on the Seattle Planning Commission.

In December 1951 the Wedgwood District Community Club appealed to the Seattle City Planning Commission to disapprove applications for the construction of duplex houses at 7518 43rd Ave NE and 4303 NE 77th Street. The three-man committee of the Planning Commission which took the arguments under study, was headed by architect Clyde Grainger. Grainger certainly was familiar with Wedgwood as he, along with architect Harlan Thomas, had designed Albert Balch’s original Wedgwood-development houses in 1940. Clyde Grainger lived in View Ridge one block over from Albert Balch’s own home on 50th Ave NE. By the late 1940’s Harlan Thomas had retired, but Grainger still worked at their architectural office and Grainger continued to contribute to the development of Wedgwood. In the period 1948 to 1951 Grainger’s architectural firm, which included Harlan Thomas’ son Donald Thomas, designed Balch’s office buildings from 8014 to 8050 35th Ave NE.

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The World's Principal Air Routes 1920

The World's Principal Air Routes 1920

From Retronaut.com  comes this wonderful map of the Principal Air Routes for the year 1920.

This map is originally from The People’s Atlas, produced by the London Geographical Institute.
One amusing aspect of this map is that hardly any these international air routes actually existed in 1920! The Atlantic wasn’t crossed by air until 1927.*** The Pacific was much later. Air routes in 1920 were more along the lines of London-Paris, or perhaps San Francisco-Los Angeles. So these are essentially “air routes of the future.”
I especially like the notation of how long it would take to get from London to any point on the map, if you were going 100 miles per hour. The images of the latest airplanes are also pretty cool.
UPDATE NOTE: ***A reader correctly points out:
“The first transatlantic flight had in fact occurred by the time of this map’s publication. The US Navy’s NC-4 flew across the Atlantic with a refueling in the Azores in May of 1919 It’s pictured above as the Curtiss Seaplane.. And see that R34 airship in the picture? That vessel made the trip a month later. While most of the transoceanic routes depicted were only notional in 1920, it’s not as if the Atlantic was some uncrossable barrier. In 1927, Lindbergh made the first solo non-stop flight, but plenty of other planes had made the journey before him.”

Source : AirMinded: Airpower and British Society, 1908-1941