File:1st Ave looking north from Pioneer Square, Seattle, ca 1903 (WARNER 610).jpeg
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English: 1st Ave. looking north from Pioneer Square, Seattle, ca. 1903 ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: 1st Ave. looking north from Pioneer Square, Seattle, ca. 1903 |
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English: Signs in image include: Starr-Boyd . Lowman & Hanford Stationery and Printing Co . New York Dentists . Warner 3015
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Depicted place | Seattle | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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circa 1903 date QS:P571,+1903-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 before 1906date QS:P571,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Before 1906 is certain because the Lowman Building to the left of the Lowman & Hanford Building had not yet been built. |
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English: b&w |
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height: 5.7 in (14.6 cm); width: 7 in (17.7 cm) dimensions QS:P2048,5.75U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,7U218593 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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Order Number InfoField | WAR0123 |
Annotations InfoField | This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons |
Scheuerman Block / Scheurman Block / 110 Cherry Street / 700 1st Avenue, still extant as of 2018.
Lowman & Hanford Building, still extant as of 2018.
Howard Building, still extant as of 2018.
Sullivan Block, long gone.
Starr-Boyd Building (in foreground) and others. Most of this was demolished mid-20th-century.
Sign: 614 First Ave | New York Dentists
Sign: A. Hansen Jeweler and Silversmith in this building
Sign: Starr-Boyd
Sign on window: Morrison's
Sign: 625 Kline Rosenberg
Lower portion of sign barely legible, appears to say something about "Dr. Jensen's"
Sign: Billiards
Sign: Florence Dental Co.
Sign: Louis D'Ella & Co.
Sign: ...mes Drug Co.
Sign on wagon: Standard Furniture Co. | L. Schoenfeld & Sons | 1012-14-16-18 [illegible, possibly First Ave]
119 on tram
128 on tram
Clock shows time as 11:44
Sign on wagon begins "Reduced freight rates"
Sign: Furnished Rooms
Several signs at number 620 for Ottingers Cut-Rate Ticket Office.
Sign: Lowman & Hanford Stationery and Printers
Sign: Tickets | Great Northern Railway | Short Line | [more, not legible]
Sign: Hotel Stevens
So this would be the site of the present-day Henry M. Jackson Federal Building
Sign appears to say "Palace Hotel"
Sign: Billiards
Sign: "Dr. Edmonds"
Sign: Hotel, name not fully legible, appears to begin with "S"
Sign, not full legible, includes the word "Navigation"
Sign on wagon: Cigars
Sign on wagon: Laundry
Sign: [D]rugs
Sign: Northwest [illegible] Bank
Partially legible sign, something about "Dental parlors"
Sign: "Royal" (rest of sign is obscured)
Sign appears to say "The American Cigar | S. Ashelm"
Sign: "Prin[ter]" or "Prin[ting]"
Sign for Great Northern Railway ticket office
Sign: [illegible] Theatre
This was later the site of the Tivoli Theatre, but that wasn't built until 1913. This must be its predecessor, variously known as the "Madison Street", "Alcazar", or "Star" Theatre, but the sign doesn't obviously appear to say any of those.
Original Pioneer Square totem pole
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- First Avenue, Seattle
- Sullivan Building
- Good Arts Building
- Starr Boyd Building
- Lowman & Hanford Building
- Howard Building
- Buildings in Seattle
- Destroyed buildings in Seattle
- Original Pioneer Square totem pole
- Wooden utility poles in Seattle
- History of streetcars in Seattle
- Pioneer Square, Seattle, Washington
- Time 11:44
- Seattle, Washington in the 1900s
- Black and white photographs of Seattle