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Fire ruins on 1st Ave., north of Occidental Square, June 1889 (

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Creator



Alternative names	John Payson Soule
Description	American photographer and postcard publisher
Date of birth/death	1828	1904
Authority file	: Q6251707 VIAF: 23784863 ISNI: 0000000032919450 ULAN: 500036826 LCCN: n91108304 WorldCat

Title

Fire ruins on 1st Ave., north of Occidental Square, June 1889

Description

Transcribed from photograph: "Fire. June 6, 1889. Ruins. Front Street [1st Ave.]. Looking North from Occidental Square."

"Occidental Square" in the title was more or less today's Pioneer Square, not Occidental Park. The first ruin on the left is the Yesler-Leary Building.

Date

Taken in June 1889

Collection

Seattle Public Library

	Location	Seattle , United States of America
	Coordinates	47° 36′ 24″ N, 122° 19′ 58″ W
	Established	1890
	Website	www.spl.org
	Authority file	: Q7442157 VIAF: 147059007 ISNI: 0000000107435179 LCCN: n50059684 NRHP: 82004253 GND: 4841883-3 WorldCat

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This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by Seattle Public Library as part of a cooperation project. The donation was facilitated by the Digital Public Library of America, via its partner Northwest Digital Heritage.

Record in source catalog
DPLA identifier: c870a2aad61094efd4c6f2eec7cb695d
Seattle Public Library identifier: spl_shp_5051

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The author died in 1904, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

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.

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