File:Yesler Way and 2nd Ave, looking northeast, between 1905 and 1909 (SEATTLE 3140).jpg
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English: Yesler Way and 2nd Ave., looking northeast, ca. 1898
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English: Yesler Way and 2nd Ave., looking northeast, ca. 1898 |
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English: Shows the Seattle City Hall, fire station and police headquarters at 3rd Ave. and Jefferson St. The King County Court House on First Hill is in background.
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between 1905 and 1909 date QS:P571,+1905-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1905-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1909-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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English: Seattle Photographs |
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Order Number InfoField | SEA1552 |
Annotations InfoField | This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons |
King County Courthouse
Seattle City Hall ("Katzenjammer Castle")
Seattle City Light Yesler Substation, built 1904-05
Trinity Parish Church (Episcopal), completed 1902, still extant 2020.
sign: "Rooms | Pioneer Hotel. | 509 5th Ave."
sign, partially obscured: "Mansfield". Hotel Mansfield.
sign, partially obscured: "Up·to·date signs"
sign, partially obscured: "Carpenter | Jobber"
House on cribwork blocking Jefferson street, presumably part of a regrade.
sign: "[Bohemi]an Beer"
sign: "The Hot Scotch"
Partially legible sign for a tailor
sign: "[…]. Kulies"
sign "[T]he best … cigars … city … & retail"
sign on wagon partially legible; the big part says, "Cash Market".
Street being paved with bricks
I'm not certain, but believe this was the building of the Seattle-Tacoma Power Company, later bought by Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power, which eventually evolved into the present-day Puget Sound Energy.
Church of Our Lady of Good Help (Roman Catholic), southeast corner of 5th Ave and Jefferson Street. Built 1905.
sign: "Seals & Stencils"
sign: "Key fitters"
sign: "Plumbing"
sign: "Plumbing"
sign: "Henry the Fourth Cigars"
Rainier Beer ad: "You can't fool a good judge."
painted on brick: "Pure Whiskies Brandies Gin etc."
sign on brick, not entirely legible, includes the word "Wines". "Cigars" written diagonally over the re sign.
sign on brick appears to be "Tyee Saloon" written over some older sign.
sign: "Triangle Bar | Restaurant | Meals 10¢"
sign: "Triangle Bar | Rainier Beer | Meals 10¢"
sign: "Seatt[le] Mea[t…]"
sign: "Grand Union Hotel"
The Prefontaine Building would open here in 1909
sign: "Smoke only Skookum Club & [less legible, apparently 'H.H.K. Cigars']"
sign: "Table & board | Meals 15¢"
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