Today’s past postcard is showing Capitol Hill’s Holy Names Academy in 1909, back when it was just built.
While the photo most likely wasn’t actually taken at night, the tint artist made the scene suitably moody.
Today, Holy Names survives as a Catholic girls’ high school and is the oldest continually running school in the state. I could definitely use some help with the transcription on this one.
Dear Mother, I am getting along fine.
I am night watchman on the Building. I worked on ???? Am down here will me to night she will stay till a bout 10 o’clock and then I will take her home.
Good by From Geo.
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| 2021 Holy Names Academy at Night — Seattle, Washington. |
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| Postcard sent August 1909 to Mrs. Etna Moore of Grants Pass, Oregon. |
Dear Mother,
I am getting along fine. I am night watchman at the building I worked on. Carrie (?) is down here with me tonight. She will stay till about 10 oclock and then I will take her home.
Goodby from Geo
It looks like it’s haunted
Whoever did the tint job did some striking work.
Just slightly older (1905), the old academy at Seventh Avenue and Jackson Street, before the Jackson Regrade: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle_(1905)_-_Academy_of_the_Holy_Names.jpg
I am currently a student at the school and am blown away by this picture. I thought it was a painting at first. The North Tower is gone now, but besides the lack of trees, the school looks pretty much the same.
wow. painting is surreal. however, it seems more like an editorial cartoon trying to portray HNA as some sort of nightmare. <–objective standpoint.
i go there and wow….looks haunted!! COUGS CLASS OF 2012 lol
As a former student, I can tell you it really is haunted!