March 12th, 2008 @ 10:42 am by Cliffe | Sorted Photo Exposure
This photo was taken just a month after the
Great Seattle Fire in 1889. The vantage point is 1st and Cherry and you can see the rebuilding process just starting. All because of an overturned glue pot. The silver lining, however, is our collection of brick buildings downtown. Click on the thumbnail for a larger version.
|
|
Looking up Cherry St. from First, Seattle, Wash., July 1889. Image courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
|
RSS 2.0 Feed.
You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
March 13th, 2008 @ 8:10 pm
Don’t forget the fact that that city full of new brick buildings came in handy around the time that a steamship loaded with Klondike gold showed up in the harbor. in 1898 and set off the Gold Rush…
March 17th, 2008 @ 9:43 pm
This is a great shot - My first job out of college was on that corner ..on the second floor….