Seattle's oldest newspaper, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, was founded in 1863 as the weekly Seattle Gazette, when Seattle was little more than a sawmill, a few dozen wooden buildings, and a couple of hundred people. This image shows the paper's new building, constructed in 1874 by Henry Yesler at Front Street (now First Avenue) and Cherry Street. The name on the building is the Intelligencer, indicating the image was taken after 1876, when that name was adopted, and before 1881, when The Intelligencer merged with the Seattle Post and moved into the newly completed Post building, on the northeast corner of Yesler Way and Post Street. The paper survived the Great Fire of 1889, the Panic of 1893, the Depression of the 1930s, and decades of cutthroat competition with its cross-town rival, The Seattle Times, until it became an online-only publication in 2009.
Photographer's number: Peiser '82
Caption information source: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-post-intelligencer-a-brief-history Caption information source: "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1863-2009)," by Cassandra Tate, HistoryLink.org Essay 8956
ID Number: SHS252
Date: Circa 1876
Physical Description: 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard: b&w ; 4 x 6.5 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.
