File:Seattle - Waltham Block - 1900.jpg
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"Business houses of Spencer-Clarke Co. and Geo. B. Adair & Son" from Seattle and the Orient (1900). Text on page 36 of the same brochure indicates the Adair Company was at 309 Occidental Avenue; however, the building is the Waltham Block (the name can be vaguely made out in the overexposed sign at the top of the building), now home to the Davidson Galleries (313 Occidental Ave. S., the Spencer-Clarke space) and the Glasshouse Studio (311 Occidental Ave. S., the Adair space). Numerous other signs are legible, if barely so. Upper-level signs at left say:
Two highly legible signs say "Geo. B. Adair & Son", and one says "Spencer-Clarke Co." The sign on the building at left says "Hall & Denny / Liquor Dealers" The sign between the stores is not very legible. The only word easily made out is "Scale" in the center of the sign (with possibly a number under that), and a "G" just above that as part of the logo. The curved word at the top seems to begin with "A": possibly "Agency", like the sign on the right? The sign in the window at right says "Geo. B. Adair & Son / 309 / Manufacturers Agents / [4 illegible lines, the last three of which appear to be company names]". There is another illegible sign at the bottom of the window. The sign to the right of the Adair store says "Agency / Giant / [marginally legible, possible "Pocock"] & Co. / Judson / Giant / & [illegible] / Powders" under which is a second, largely illegible sign "[illegible] & Co. / [illegible] of / [illegible]" |
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p. 34 of Seattle and the Orient (more properly, Seattle …and the… Orient), a 1900 "souvenir" pamphlet edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen and published by The Times Printing Company (that is, the Seattle Times). Scanned at 300 dpi; images cleaned up using Picture Publisher's "remove pattern" feature. |
| Author | Book edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen. Photo is uncredited. |
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PD-US |
| Other versions | Image:Seattle and the Orient 34.jpg is the whole page; Image:Seattle - Waltham Block - 1900.jpg is just the picture. |
Similar image, taken 2008
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