The image is looking southwest on Holgate Avenue at the Plum Street intersection, from 9th Avenue. This area south of downtown Seattle was originally made up of tidal flats; soil dredged from the Duwamish River and sluiced from the Denny triangle and Beacon Hill regrades was used to create this industrial area needed by area businesses and railroads.
This photo is from an album of photographs documenting Beacon Hill and construction around Seattle in 1923, probably of projects by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company (later Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company), a major contributor to the construction of the Pacific Northwest. All of the photos were taken by noted Seattle photographer Asahel Curtis.
Signs visible in photo: The Bon Apartments, Furnished, Housekeeping and Sleeping, Rooms $1.25 a week, Free Gas & Lights; For Rent; Kelley, Councilman; Climax Plug, The Grand Old Chew; 1917 Holgate Avenue; Holgate Ave. (street sign on post); Plum St. (street sign on post). Inscribed on photo: Office, Looking southwest at 9th Ave. S. & Plum St, 5-22-23. Photographer's number: 20.
Physical Description: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 7.75 x 9.75 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. View the finding aid for this collection at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv31817
Credit: MOHAI, Lockheed Shipbuilding & Construction Company Photographs and Publications, Lib1988.13.7.2.20, photo by Asahel Curtis
