Image: Seattle - Railroad Avenue - 1900

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Description: Railroad Avenue (now Alaskan Way) along the downtown Seattle waterfront. Photo accompanying 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 University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections; they attribute it to Anders Beer Wilse.
Title: Seattle - Railroad Avenue - 1900
Credit: 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.
Author: Anders Beer Wilse
Permission: PD-US
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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History of Seattle before 1900

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