Image: Seattle Hardware Co. - 1900

Description: "Exterior Seattle Hardware Co." from the brochure Seattle and the Orient (1900). Seattle Hardware Co. had several buildings over the years. Right at the corner over the ground floor in this photo appears to be a number "823" (also on top of the building toward the back at right) so this must be the building at 819-823 First Avenue, mentioned in the caption of Downtown Seattle looking north from James Street, Seattle, ca. 1900 in the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections. This is part of what is now known as the Colman Building. See http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/5279/ : "…the building took many years to complete between 1889-1904. … [the] original section of the building had arched windows separated by piers on the second floor, cast iron columns on the first … In 1904 … all arched windows were replaced with trabeated ones …"
Title: Seattle Hardware Co. - 1900
Credit: p. 76 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. Photo is uncredited.
Permission: PD-US
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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