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Seattle from Pike Street and Second Avenue, 1878
By 1878, Seattle had over 2,000 residents. Shown here is the area bounded by Pike and Union Streets and Second and Third Streets (now Avenues), some distance north of the town's active lumber mill and commercial district. The large building in the upper left is the Territorial University, founded in 1861. Only a few of the area's big trees remain…
ID Number:1971.5202.19
Date:1878
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Panorama of Seattle, 1878
This image of Seattle faces southeast across Pike Street, toward Mount Rainier, which is just visible beyond Beacon Hill. According to "Choir's Pioneer Directory," at the time of this photo Seattle had 4,681 residents, 586 buildings, and seven miles of wooden sidewalks. The large square building in the upper left corner of the frame is the Territorial University, built in…
ID Number:1980.6923.38
Date:1878
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Henry Yesler, circa 1885
Henry Yesler arrived in Seattle in 1852 looking for a waterfront sawmill location. Other settlers moved the boundaries of their land claims to accomodate space for the mill, its pier, and a skid road, now Yesler Way. Yesler's sawmill, the first steam-powered mill on Puget Sound, started operation in the spring of 1853. In addition to his mill, Yesler owned…
ID Number:SHS1582
Date:Circa 1885
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Waterfront, Seattle, circa 1875
Handwritten on mount: Seattle Scenery.Handwritten on verso: Peterson & Bros View. Early 1870s.Typed on verso: Seattle from the waterfront in the early day. For a stereoscope.SHS category: Waterfront
ID Number:SHS2951
Date:Circa 1875
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Waterfront from near Yesler's wharf, Seattle, circa 1882
Caption on mount: Peterson & Bro., Seattle, Wash. Ter.Caption on verso: Seattle Art Gallery, Peterson & Bro., Photograph Artists, Front Street, Seattle, King Co. Washington Territory.Typed on verso: View looking north from near Yesler, early 1880's.SHS category: Waterfront
ID Number:SHS3506
Date:Circa 1882