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Image of Wooden sidewalk on Front Street, circa 1878
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Wooden sidewalk on Front Street, circa 1878

Before the 1870s, Seattle's Front Street was a rough path filled with stumps and cut by ravines. The city pulled out the stumps, filled in the gullies, and smoothed out the street. It also built a new wooden sidewalk with guard rails to keep people from falling down into the tidal flats.This photo, looking south from Madison Street, was taken…
ID Number:1983.10.6138
Date:Circa 1878
Image of Talbot Coal Company wharf and Yesler's Wharf, 1878
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Talbot Coal Company wharf and Yesler's Wharf, 1878

In the 1870s, coal from Renton was shipped from Seattle to San Francisco. Steamers loaded with coal on the trip south returned to Seattle filled with goods for the growing city.This photo, taken around 1878, shows the pier at the Talbot Coal Company's Seattle yard. The Talbot coal pier was just one of several coal docks at the Seattle waterfront…
ID Number:1983.10.6141
Date:1878
Image of Looking south from Denny Hill, 1882
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Looking south from Denny Hill, 1882

On a sunny summer afternoon in 1882, a person looking south from Seattle's Denny Hill would have had this view. Seattle was still a frontier city of wood frame houses on the recently cleared hillsides above Elliott Bay. The steamers that landed at Yesler's Wharf (right center) were the city's lifeline to the rest of the United States and to…
ID Number:1983.10.6143.1
Date:1882
Image of People under Pioneer Square pergola, Seattle, circa 1910
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People under Pioneer Square pergola, Seattle, circa 1910

The pergola in Pioneer Square was designed by Seattle architect Julian Everett. In was built in 1909 as a stop for the Yesler and James Street Cable Car Company. This photo shows pedestrians shortly after the construction of hte pergola. Webster & Stevens number: 27XCaption information source: "Truck accidentally destroys Seattle's historic Pioneer Square pergola on January 15, 2001," by…
ID Number:1983.10.6148
Date:Circa 1910
Image of Seattle waterfront, circa 1872
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Seattle waterfront, circa 1872

Around 1872, a sailor named Billy Fife painted a view of the Seattle waterfront from Elliott Bay. Sometime after 1903, Webster & Stevens photographed Fife's painting.In this photo of Fife's painting, Elliott Bay is busy with ships. Small houses dot the hillsides, and a few tall trees still line the hilltops. Original copy negative.Original: Fife, W., 1872?. Painting photographed after…
ID Number:1983.10.6167
Date:Circa 1872
Image of Exterior of Trinity Parish Church, Seattle, circa 1880
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Exterior of Trinity Parish Church, Seattle, circa 1880

Trinity Parish Church, Seattle's first Episcopal church, was established on August 13, 1865. The congregation's first church building and the rectory next door were located at Third Avenue and Jefferson Street, and were dedicated on June 11, 1871. Both buildings were destroyed in the 1889 Great Fire, and the church moved to its present site, on First Hill at 609…
ID Number:1983.10.6168
Date:Circa 1880
Image of U.S.S. Decatur, circa 1850
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U.S.S. Decatur, circa 1850

During the early 1850s, hostility grew between the Native peoples and the new settlers in the Puget Sound region. The "Decatur" and several other government ships were moved to the area to protect the settlers. On January 26, 1856, following word of a planned attack on Seattle, troops on the "Decatur" fired howitzers into the forest beyond Third Avenue where…
ID Number:1983.10.6182
Date:Circa 1850
Image of Budlong's boathouse, circa 1886
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Budlong's boathouse, circa 1886

Webster & Stevens made copies of the work of a number of earlier Seattle photographers. Some, like this one, show what Seattle looked like a few years before the great fire of 1889.This photo, taken around 1886, shows Budlong's Boathouse on Front Street (now First Avenue) at the foot of Marion Street. The sailboats and other small watercraft that crowd…
ID Number:1983.10.6184
Date:Circa 1886
Image of The start of Seattle's Great Fire, June 6, 1889
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The start of Seattle's Great Fire, June 6, 1889

Fire was a constant danger in many cities of the late 1800s because so many of the buildings were built of wood. Seattle's 1889 Great Fire wasn't Seattle's first fire, but it was definitely the worst.This photo was taken from the roof of a building at Pike Street and Second Avenue in mid-afternoon on June 6, 1889, about 45 minutes…
ID Number:1983.10.6204
Date:1889
Image of Seattle Post-Intelligencer's temporary building after Great Fire, 1889
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer's temporary building after Great Fire, 1889

This photo shows the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's temporary building at 4th Avenue and Columbia Street in 1889. Their original building was destroyed in Seattle's Great Fire, and the newspaper used this residence (owned by Post-Intelligencer owner and publisher Leigh Hunt) for a few months until moving into a new office at 2nd Avenue and Cherry Street. Despite the fire, the Post-Intelligencer…
ID Number:1983.10.6228
Date:1889
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