File:Seattle - King County Courthouse - 1900.jpg
Summary
| Description | The 1890 King County Court House at Seventh Avenue and Jefferson Street on Seattle, Washington's First Hill (which became known as "Profanity Hill" for the miserable climb up from downtown). This was the courthouse until 1917, and was torn down in the 1930s. The location would now be roughly between Harborview Medical Center and Interstate 5. |
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p. 29 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. Lettering at the lower right of the photo says "Wilse / No 151. "Wilse" is presumably Anders B. Wilse. |
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PD-US |
| Other versions | Image:Seattle and the Orient 29.jpg is the whole page; Image:Seattle - King County Courthouse - 1900.jpg is just the picture. |
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