File:Intelligencer building at 1st and Cherry, circa 1876 (MOHAI 9513).jpg

Seattle's oldest newspaper, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, was founded in 1863 as the weekly Seattle Gazette, when Seattle was little more than a sawmill, a few dozen wooden buildings, and a couple of hundred people. This image shows the paper's new building, constructed in 1874 by Henry Yesler at Front Street (now First Avenue) and Cherry Street. The name on the building is the Intelligencer, indicating the image was taken after 1876, when that name was adopted, and before 1881, when The Intelligencer merged with the Seattle Post and moved into the newly completed Post building, on the northeast corner of Yesler Way and Post Street. The paper survived the Great Fire of 1889, the Panic of 1893, the Depression of the 1930s, and decades of cutthroat competition with its cross-town rival, The Seattle Times, until it became an online-only publication in 2009.

Caption information source: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-post-intelligencer-a-brief-history Caption information source: "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1863-2009)" by Cassandra Tate, HistoryLink.org Essay 8956

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