Koenig, Lena: Photos from her Scrapbook, 1920s - 1950s

By Heather MacIntosh
Posted 1/01/2000
HistoryLink.org Essay 2310

Lena Koenig was born in Spokane in 1911. Here she shares her personal scrapbook of photographs from the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, featuring a 1920s plane ride from Spokane to Seattle.

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Lena Koenig getting ready for a flight to Seattle from Spokane, late 1920s.

Courtesy Lena Koenig

Lena Koenig and friend stopping off in Wenatchee during an air trip across Washington, 1920s

Courtesy Lena Koenig

Boeing field, 1920s

Courtesy Lena Koenig

Downtown Seattle looking east from Railroad Avenue, now Alaskan Way, in the late 1920s.

Courtesy Lena Koenig

Rose garden, Woodland Park, Seattle, late 1940s.

Courtesy Lena Koenig

Inside the Koenig residence, Seattle, ca. 1950

Courtesy Lena Koenig

Sailing preparations, Lake Union, Seattle, early 1950

Courtesy Lena Koenig

Lena Koenig and her husband Florian, Spokane, 1940s

Courtesy Lena Koenig

Lena rented a pair of hiking pants reinforced with a metal guard sewn into the seat, visible in this photograph. Lena Koenig hiking up Mt. Rainier, late 1920s

Courtesy Lena Koenig

Lena Koenig, University of Washington campus, Seattle, late 1920s.

Courtesy Lena Koenig

The Koenigs won this boat from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Lake Washington, Seattle, early 1950s.

Courtesy Lena Koenig

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