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Description: "Exterior of building occupied by the Northwest Fixture Co.", from brochure Seattle and the Orient (1900). According to accompanying text, this was "…probably the largest electrical supply concern on the [West] Coast", and occupied "the entire four stories of the building at 1018 First Avenue and three floors of the Starr building across the street". A large sign on the building says "The Northwest / Fixture and / Electric Co." The building is now known as the Holyoke Building, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, ID #76001888.
Title: Seattle - Northwest Fixture and Electric Co. - 1900
Credit: p. 149 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.
Author: Book edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen. The photo is uncredited.
Permission: PD-US
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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