File:Seattle, looking southeast, ca 1914 (SEATTLE 3167).jpg
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English: Seattle, looking southeast, ca. 1914 ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Webster and Stevens, published in The Argus |
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English: Seattle, looking southeast, ca. 1914 |
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English: From the L.C. Smith Building (Smith Tower) while that was under construction. Shows the King Street Station and Union Station at 4th Ave. and Jackson St. Caption on image: W&S 27088
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Depicted place | Seattle | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1913 date QS:P571,+1913-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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English: Seattle Photographs |
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Order Number InfoField | SEA1399 |
Annotations InfoField | This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons |
Beacon Hill
This is the street now known as Airport Way S.
This is where Second Avenue Extension now cuts through. Many buildings were torn down to build it (in 1929); some were sliced through and got new façades.
Armour Building, Demolished 1930 for 2nd Avenue Extension
New Richmond Hotel, later Northern Pacific Hotel, now (2020) Downtowner Hotel, 308 4th Ave., S
Rex Hotel, still extant 2020
Alps Hotel, still extant 2020
sign: "Stewart & Holm[es]"
sign: "J.W. Fales Paper"
sign: "Pacific Coast Biscuit Co."
sign: "Frye & Co."
sign: "Wild Rose Lard"
sign: "The Vulcan Iron Works"
sign: "W.F. Jahn & Company Grain"
sign: "Fairbanks Morse & Co."
sign: "Puget Sound Wagonworks"
sign: "Seattle Mattress & Upholstery Co."
sign: "Hotel Yakima"
sign: "Cassidy's Place" and ad for Bull Durham Tobacco.
sign "G.N.N.P" on tower (Great Northern — Northern Pacific)
sign: "Northern Express" on freight depot
sign: "Great Northern — Northern Pacific"
sign: "King Street Station"
sign: "Oregon-Washington Station"
clock showing time 2:15
sign: "Hotel Idaho"
sign: "Hotel"
sign: "Rooms"
Streetcar on Fourth Avenue that just came around the bend from Jackson
ad in window for Lovera cigars
small hotel sign, name not legible.
streetcar rounding the corner from Main onto Fourth
sign on awning "New Chicago Restaurant"
signs in windows advertising a sale
sign: "Storage"
sign: "J. Arine's Branch [illegible] Store"
vertical signs saying "Storage"
sign: "For Rent. G.(?) A. Hull"
sign for a tailor shop
small streetcar powered from overhead wire
Metropolitan Building
Fire Department headquarters / Fire Station No. 10. Built 1903; third story (new Fire Alarm Office) added 1912; destroyed to make way for Second Avenue Extension.
sign: "Stewart & Holmes Drug Co."
Washington Iron Works
sign: "[Polson] Implement [Warehouse]"
New Central Hotel, still extant 2020
This is presumably the building still extant 2020 as the Hong Kong Building
Corner of Fifth & Dearborn
Not legible here, but this is the Fremont Hotel
Furuya Building
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