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1983.10.1407.5
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Women in working in kitchen at Frederick & Nelson, Seattle, circa 1920

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The first Frederick & Nelson retail store opened in 1889, right after Seattle's great fire. By 1916, the company was doing so well that it built a large new store at Fifth Avenue and Pike Street, which many people thought was too far out of town. Frederick & Nelson was one of Seattle's landmark companies for over a century. It closed in the 1990s.

This photo shows women working in the kitchens around 1920.

Handwritten on sleeve: F&N Interiors
Webster & Stevens number: 72592
ID Number: 1983.10.1407.5
Date: Circa 1920
Creator(s): Webster & Stevens, Photographer
Physical Description: 1 nitrate negative : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Credit: MOHAI, PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, 1983.10.1407.5
Copyright: No Known Copyright
Subjects: Retail and Department Stores, Restaurants, Labor and Labor Unions

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