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Image of Waterfront and downtown, Seattle, circa 1887
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Waterfront and downtown, Seattle, circa 1887

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Label on verso: Warner & Davis, Landscape Photographers, Front & Cherry Sts., Seattle, Wash. Ter.
Typed on verso: Seattle looking south showing waterfront and railroad tracks before the fire 1889.

SHS category: Views
ID Number: SHS1376
Date: Circa 1887
Creator(s): Warner & Davis, Photographer
Credit: MOHAI, SHS1376
Copyright: All Rights Reserved
Subjects: Washington Territory, European American Settlement, Railroads, Puget Sound
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