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Photo of map of Seattle before fire, 1889
Seattle in the 1880s was a rapidly growing city, aided in no small part by the 1883 connection with the Northern Pacific Railway Company. Lumber and coal were the primary industries, but the growth of fishing, wholesale trade, shipbuilding, and shipping also contributed to the town's economic expansion and population growth. The Seattle City Census of 1888 records population at…
ID Number:SHS483B
Date:1889
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Regrading on Third Avenue near Spring Street, Seattle, 1906
Seattle's hills are steep, but they used to be steeper. During various regrading projects, the city tried to make the streets and avenues more level. Some areas were raised and some were lowered. Nearby buildings were raised or lowered too. Others were torn down or moved away.This photograph was taken during the regrading project on Third Avenue in downtown Seattle.…
ID Number:SHS503
Date:1906
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Pike Street, looking east from west of Second Avenue, Seattle, circa 1898
At the turn of the 19th century, businesses near the intersection of Second Avenue and Pike Street included a laundry, a barber shop, a hotel, a tobacco store, a restaurant, and a public bath. One sign of the future is the one-story Bon Marche Department Store (center right, beyond the awning), which opened at the southwest corner of Second and…
ID Number:SHS644
Date:Circa 1898
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Third Avenue, looking south from Pike Street, Seattle, circa 1900
By the turn of the 19th century, multi-story brick buildings had begun to spring up along Seattle's Third Avenue, and city streets were being repaved. In this image, the Abbott Hotel occupies the southeast corner of Third Avenue at Pike Street. In the near distance is Plymouth Congregational Church, at the corner of Third and University. The camera technology of…
ID Number:SHS645
Date:Circa 1900
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Counterbalance streetcar on 3rd Ave, Seattle, 1903
Denny Hill once stood north of what is now Seattle’s central business district, between Second and Fifth Avenues. Between 1889 and 1906, the Denny (later Washington) Hotel dominated its southern slope. The hill was so steep that the hotel’s second owner James Moore built a counterbalance streetcar on Third Avenue to carry guests up the two blocks from Pine Street.…
ID Number:SHS727
Date:1903
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Baseball fans on Yesler Way cable car, 1912
This photograph shows the busy intersection of Yesler Way and Second Avenue in Seattle's Pioneer Square in 1912. In the foreground, the Leschi Park and Lake Washington cable car heads east on Yesler Way, loaded to capacity with passengers. A sign on the front of the car reads "Northwestern League Base Ball Today! Take this car." The baseball fans overflowing…
ID Number:SHS758
Date:1912
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Third Avenue looking north from Jefferson Street, circa 1916
This view looks up Third Avenue from Pioneer Square, showing the northward spread of Seattle's downtown neighborhood as it grew, with the proliferation of multi-story brick buildings, cars and streetcars, and pedestrians. The newly constructed County-City building (King County Courthouse and Municipal Building) is in the foreground at right. Businesses in image: Hotel Seward; California Oyster House; The Drexel; Levinson's;…
ID Number:SHS776
Date:Circa 1916
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Second Ave. and Spring St. during regrade, circa 1909
This image shows the corner of Second Avenue and Spring Street, looking east up Spring, during one of Seattle's regrading projects. The Lincoln Hotel is at upper right, on the corner of 4th Avenue, with the roof of the Seattle Public Library visible just behind. The cross of Providence Hospital is just visible above the Library. Horses and a cart…
ID Number:SHS911
Date:Circa 1909
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Madison Street Cable Railway at 3rd Avenue, Seattle, 1907
The Madison Street Cable Railway provided public transportation along one of Seattle's busiest thoroughfares from 1890 to 1940. Built to connect downtown Seattle with Lake Washington, Madison Street was Seattle's steepest cable line, terminating downtown at a turntable on West Street (now Western Avenue), near the present-day ferry terminal on Puget Sound. In this image a Madison Street Cable Railway…
ID Number:SHS915
Date:1907
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Shorey's Books at 3rd Ave. and Cherry St., Seattle, circa 1895
Legendary Seattle bookstore Shorey's was founded by newspaperman Samuel Fernald Shorey (1851-1932) in 1890 as a small magazine and cigar store at Third and James. Sam's great-nephew John W. "Bill" Todd Jr.(1914-2007) bought the store in 1939, and it was later run by his son, Jim Todd. Shorey's maintained its huge inventory even though the store had to move several…
ID Number:SHS1317
Date:Circa 1895