File:First Avenue South, Seattle, 1911 (MOHAI 1562).jpg

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English: First Avenue South, Seattle, 1911   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Webster & Stevens
Title
English: First Avenue South, Seattle, 1911
Description
English:

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the area south of Seattle's Yesler Way was a seedy, rough neighborhood, notorious for its gambling and other forms of vice.

Signs in image: Chicago Bar. Chicago House. Baths 15 cents, 2 for 25 cents. Laundry. Union Saloon. Clark-Miller Co. - Blow [Piping?]. Drug Co. Laundry. [...egert] Machine Works. Restaurant. Covey Bros. Sheet Metal Works. Karl Kiefer Cleaning Dyeing and Repairing Works. Old Clothes. Handwritten on sleeve: First Ave So. 1911. Caption by MOHAI staff.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Commercial streets--Washington (State)--Seattle
Chicago House was at 508 Commercial (now First Avenue South) just south of King Street, so that positions this pretty precisely.
Depicted place
English: United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Date 1911
date QS:P571,+1911-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium
English: 1 glass negative: b&w; sulfiding
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
1562
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.
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PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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