For the past few weeks Vintage Seattle reader Kristin Kennell
has been scanning and sending in photos from her family’s photography studio Kennell-Ellis.
Check out the exterior shot from the 1950′s
here and even earlier photos
here. This time Kristin treats us to a look inside the Kennell-Ellis Studio on Union Street from 1929.
Thanks Kristin!

Interior of the Kennell-Ellis Studio, downtown Seattle in the Gary Building on Union Street, 8/2/1929. Photograph courtesy Kristin Kennell.

Interior of the Kennell-Ellis Studio, downtown Seattle in the Gary Building on Union Street, 8/2/1929. Photograph courtesy Kristin Kennell.
What gorgeous spaces. Where exactly is this building, and is it still standing?
It looks like an Italian villa inside!
SO elegant… to match people coming to the studio for a portrait in their “Sunday finest.”