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View from roof of Pike Place Market, Seattle, circa 1919

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This view looking north on Pike Place from above the Main Arcade building shows bustling activity and traffic from both cars and horses on both Pike Place and Western Avenue (left side of frame). The old Armory building that was demolished in the 1960s can be seen in the distance.

Signs in image: Seattle Cabinet Wks; Mfg & Show Cases; The H. M. Cl Iron & Wire Works; Seeds; Union Fish Co; King Farm Products; Farmers Products & Poultry Co., We Pay Cash Daily for Poultry, Egg, Veal & Hogs; Livingston Hotel; Pike Place 1900; Green Lake Farmers' Ass'n; E. R. Butterworth & Sons, Undertakers; Market Paper Co., Paper Bags; The Family Shoe Market, A Cut Price Shoe Store for Workers, Our Buying Power Saves You Money; Edward L. Gomoll, Store Furniture, Show Cases, 1915 1st Ave, Red Front Furniture; Stewart Hotel.
Webster & Stevens number: 75356
ID Number: 1983.10.1659.2
Date: Circa 1919
Creator(s): Webster & Stevens, Photographer
Physical Description: 1 negative : nitrate, b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
Credit: MOHAI, PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, 1983.10.1659.2
Copyright: No Known Copyright