File:G B Sanborn business card, circa 1895 (MOHAI 11593).jpg

Gustavus B. Sanborn (1848-1902) moved to Seattle's Ballard neighborhood in 1889 and began a successful hardware business. In 1901, Sanborn build a new brick and stone building for his business; the Sanborn Building still stands, as of 2018, at 5325 Ballard Avenue N.W. This business card for one of Mr. Sanborn's Ballard Avenue stores gives its address as simply "Ballard Ave., Ballard, Washington, near terminus of motor line."

Caption information source: "Two Ballard Men Are Dead," The Seattle Daily Times, June 12, 1902, p. 7. Caption information source: https://web6.seattle.gov/DPD/HistoricalSite/QueryResult.aspx?ID=2147015896.

• Subjects (LCTGM): Business people--American--Washington (State)--Seattle; Hardware stores--Washington (State)--Seattle