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First & Cherry After The Fire

March 12th, 2008 @ 10:42 am by Cliffe | Sorted Photo Exposureborder
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.
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Looking up Cherry St. from First, Seattle, Wash., July 1889. Image courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

2 Responses:

  1. Brian Lutz wrote:

    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…

  2. Courtney Cooper wrote:

    This is a great shot - My first job out of college was on that corner ..on the second floor….

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