File:Downtown Seattle looking north from James Street, Seattle, ca 1900 (MOHAI 278).jpg

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English: Downtown Seattle looking north from James Street, Seattle, ca. 1900   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Seattle Photographic Co.
Title
English: Downtown Seattle looking north from James Street, Seattle, ca. 1900
Description
English:

For this view, the photographer stood atop a building situated between Western Avenue and Post Alley. The impressive structure in the right background is the Denny (later Washington) Hotel. Seattle Hardware Company at 819-823 First Avenue is in the Colman Building on teh right. Railroad Avenue is visible on the left; the smoke appears to be coming from one of the stacks near the waterfront.

Original photo was copied by Webster & Stevens. Signs in image: Commission Merchants. Tents. Schwabacher Bros. & Co. - Wholesale Grocers. Wilson Grain Co. Geo. W. Childs - 5 Cent Cigar. Northwestern Iron Works. Renton Coal. Far Famed Gen. Arthur Cigar. The Miner Hotel. Collins Sherman Foley Co. Stable. [...] Lumber [...] Co. - Lumber Yard, Planing Mill. The Arlington. Hotel Diller. Northwest Fixture. Standard Furniture. Campbell Block. Seattle Hardware Co. Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle panorama (143010).

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Business districts--Washington (State)--Seattle; Waterfronts--Washington (State)--Seattle; Piers & wharves--Washington (State)--Seattle
Depicted place
English: United States--Washington (State)--Seattle

Puget Sound (Wash.)

Elliott Bay (Wash.)
Date circa 1900
date QS:P571,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: 1 glass negative: b&w
Dimensions height: 6.5 in (16.5 cm); width: 8.5 in (21.5 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,6.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,8.5U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
278
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
Permission
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Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
Credit Line
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PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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