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Description

Railroad Avenue (now Alaskan Way) along the downtown Seattle waterfront. Photo accomanying essay "Seattle: Its Past, Present and Future" by Alden J. Blethen, Editor in Chief, Seattle Daily Times. Illustrated essay constitutes p. 7–11 of brochure Seattle and the Orient.

The same image (differently scanned) appears on the site of the Univesity of Washington Libraries Digital Collections; they attribute it to Anders Beer Wilse.

Source

p. 9 of Seattle and the Orient (more properly, Seattle …and the… Orient), a 1900 "souvenir" pamphlet edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen and published by The Times Printing Company (that is, the Seattle Times).

Scanned at 300 dpi; images cleaned up using Picture Publisher's "remove pattern" feature.

Date

1900

Author

Book edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen; article by Alden J. Blethen; photo credited to "Seattle Eng Co" (Seattle Engineering Company)

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