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Prosch Washington views photograph album, circa 1858-1903

Overview of the Collection

Collector
Prosch, Thomas Wickham, 1850-1915
Title
Prosch Washington views photograph album
Dates
circa 1858-1903 (inclusive)
Quantity
232 photographic prints in one album ; sizes vary
Collection Number
PH0028
Summary
Album of photographs, mainly of Seattle street scenes and architecture including the Seattle Fire of 1889. It also includes scenes of Wenatchee Valley, Chelan, Okanagon, Neah Bay, Snoqualmie Falls and other Washington locations.
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
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Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Son of pioneer parents, Charles and Susan Prosch, Thomas Prosch came with his family to the Pacific Coast in 1855 from Brooklyn, New York. The elder Prosch was a printer and in 1858 founded the Puget Sound Herald at Steilacoom. Thomas Prosch worked at his father's trade as well as a salesman and a logging camp hand. At nineteen he was a clerk in the State legislature and a clerk in the customs office at Port Townsend at twenty.

About 1869 Charles Prosch and his two sons, Fred and Thomas, acquired the Pacific Tribune from Randall H. Hewitt and continued its publication in Olympia. The complete ownership of the paper passed to Thomas in 1872 because of financial reasons. In 1873 Thomas moved to Tacoma where he continued publication of the paper for nearly two years and then moved it to Seattle where it continued about three years longer. He then sold the paper.

About 1879 he and Samuel L. Crawford bought the Intelligencer . Two years later the paper was merged with the Post to become the present day Post-Intelligencer . Early in 1886 Prosch sold the paper to a joint stock company.

In 1876 Prosch was appointed postmaster of Seattle by President Grant. He resigned the post after two years. He had charge of the municipal census of Seattle in 1890 and at the same time was special agent in charge of the federal census here. In the early 1890's he served three years as a member of the Seattle School Board. In 1894 he aided in platting the tidelands of Seattle and Tacoma. He was active in the Seattle Chamber of Commerce; he was secretary for three years and a member of the board of trustees for fourteen. He was member and officer of various pioneer and historical societies including the Washington Pioneer's association. His later life was devoted to historical writing and collecting. He died in 1915.

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Content Description

Album of photographs, mainly of Seattle street scenes and architecture including the Seattle Fire of 1889. It also includes scenes of Wenatchee Valley, Chelan, Okanagon, Neah Bay, Snoqualmie Falls and other Washington locations. The photographs of copies of work done by various local photographers including Boyd & Brass, Carlton Watkins, and M. P. Spencer.

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Administrative Information

Processing Note

Processed by Ashby Lee Collinson; 2006; Don Romero 2013.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

  • Prosch Washington Views Photograph Album

    • Description: Lake Wenatchee and mountains
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 1
    • Description: Upper Wenatchee valley
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 2
    • Description: Mission in Cashmere, Wenatchee Valley
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 3
    • Description: Burbank house and farm, Wenatchee Valley
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 4
    • Description: River and farmland

      Written on page: Brown's Flat, Wenatchee Valley.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 5
    • Description: Cows grazing in pasture

      Written on page: On Riverside Stock Ranch, Wenatchee Valley.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 6
    • Description: View of farm and hills

      Written on page: Wenatchee Valley and town from Lanham's.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 7
    • Description: Steamboats docked at Wenatchee
      M. P. Spencer (photographer)
      Dates: 1881
      Container: Box 1, Item 8
    • Description: Woman in tent, man standing by rocking chair

      Written on page: Campers at Chelan.

      Dates: 1903
      Container: Box 1, Item 9a
    • Description: View of Chelan
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 9b
    • Description: St. Andrew's P.E. Church covered in snow, Chelan
      Dates: January 1903
      Container: Box 1, Item 10a
    • Description: Woodin Avenue, Chelan
      Dates: 1903
      Container: Box 1, Item 10b
    • Description: Chelan Falls
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 11a
    • Description: Chelan and Columbia Rivers
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 11b
    • Description: Chelan River and Lake with bridge
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 11c
    • Description: Chelan River
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 11d
    • Description: Man in horse drawn carriage on road with fence

      Written on page: The Chelan Country.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 12a
    • Description: Steamboats on Lake Chelan
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 12b
    • Description: Lake Chelan shoreline

      Written on page: Lakeside at high water.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 13a
    • Description: Lake Chelan shoreline with buildings

      Written on page: Lakeside at high water.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 13b
    • Description: Lake Chelan waterfront with boats and dock
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 13c
    • Description: Man on horse drawn cart in field

      Written on page: Near lakeside.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 14a
    • Description: Dompky Falls
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 14b
    • Description: House surrounded by trees

      Written on page: Moore's.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 14c
    • Description: Man working next to tent

      Written on page: Camp at 25 Mile Creek.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 14d
    • Description: View of Lake Chelan from Canoe Creek
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 15a
    • Description: View of mountains

      Written on page: Chelan Scenery.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 15b
    • Description: View of mountains

      Written on page: Chelan Scenery.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 15c
    • Description: Rocky mountain peaks

      Written on page: Castle Rock.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 15d
    • Description: View of forest between large rocks

      Written on page: A Chelan gateway.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 16a
    • Description: View of Rainbow Falls

      Written on page: Rainbow Falls, one of Stehikin Valley's attractions.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 16b-c
    • Description: Close-up of wild flowers in Chelan
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 16d
    • Description: Men hanging deer carcasses

      Written on page: A Chelan deer hunting party.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 17a
    • Description: Mountain goats in snow

      Written on page: Wild goats in the mountains of Chelan.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 17b
    • Description: Victor Denny and Lawrence Lindsley on mountainside with dead mountain goat

      Written on page: Wild goats in the mountains of Chelan.

      Lawrence Denny Lindsley (photographer)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 17c
    • Description: Black bear behind boulder

      Written on page: Chelan game.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 18a
    • Description: Two trout

      Written on page: Chelan game.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 18b
    • Description: Lynx caught in trap in the snow

      Written on page: Chelan game.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 18c
    • Description: Wood rat on tree stump caught in trap

      Written on page: Chelan game.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 18d
    • Description: Nespelem Falls, Okanagan County

      Written on page: In summer.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 19a
    • Description: Nespelem Falls, Okanagan County

      Written on page: In winter.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 19b
    • Description: Nespelem Falls, Okanagan County

      Written on page: In spring.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 20
    • Description: Interior of St. Andrews Church, Chelan

      Written on page: House built of logs, furniture to match.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 21
    • Description: Steamboats at dock

      Written on page: Steamboats at Lakeside.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 22
    • Description: Lake Chelan with mountains in background

      Written on page: View of Lake Chelan and Mountains from Moore's.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 23
    • Description: Snow-covered street with storefronts and sleigh

      Written on page: Lakeside's business street.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 24
    • Description: The Wentworth Sanitarium in Chelan with snow on ground
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 25
    • Description: Men working on mining equipment

      Written on page: Hydraulic mining in Sultan River district

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 26
    • Description: Man spraying water at mining operation

      Written on page: Mining for gold at De Soto mine, Sultan River District, Cascade Mountains.

      Dates: 1902
      Container: Box 1, Item 27a
    • Description: Group with cook in front of buildings

      Written on page: Mining for gold at De Soto mine, Sultan River District, Cascade Mountains.

      Dates: 1902
      Container: Box 1, Item 27b
    • Description: Mt. Rainier viewed from Tacoma
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 28a
    • Description: Snoqualmie Falls

      Written on page: An early day photograph.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 28b
    • Description: Snoqualmie Falls

      Written on page: From a painting by T. A. Harrison in 1876.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 28c
    • Description: Group portrait taken in the woods

      Printed on photo: Souvenir of excursion of the State Press Association. From Seattle to Snoqualmie.

      Dates: September 27, 1893
      Container: Box 1, Item 29a
    • Description: Greek Church in Sitka, Alaska
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 29b
    • Description: U.S. Penitentiary at McNeil Island
      Dates: 1877
      Container: Box 1, Item 29c
    • Description: Men sitting on large felled cedar tree

      Written on page: A fallen giant-cedar.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 29d
    • Description: Rocky shoreline of west coast of Destruction Island
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 30a
    • Description: Lighthouse under construction on Destruction Island
      Dates: 1877
      Container: Box 1, Item 30b
    • Description: Rocky shore near Neah Bay
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 31a
    • Description: Tall boulders and cliff at Cape Flattery
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 31b
    • Description: Tall boulders at Cape Flattery
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 31c
    • Description: Tatoosh lighthouse
      Dates: 1877
      Container: Box 1, Item 31d
    • Description: Suspension bridge over Fraser River
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 32a
    • Description: Man holding saw and axe in front of small building

      Written on page: The beginning of a Puget Sound farm or town.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 32b
    • Description: Railroad bridge over Fraser River
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 32c
    • Description: Floating dry dock at Port Hadlock
      McMurray Photo (photographer)

      Written on photo: 325 feet long, 100 feet wide.

      Dates: March 14, 1891
      Container: Box 1, Item 32d
    • Description: View of Yale, British Columbia
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 33a
    • Description: Steamer George E. Starr in Victoria Harbor, British Columbia
      Dates: 1882
      Container: Box 1, Item 33b
    • Description: View of Fraser River and New Westminster, British Columbia
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 33c
    • Description: Houses in Victoria, British Columbia
      Dates: 1882
      Container: Box 1, Item 33d
    • Description: Main Street, Olympia
      Dates: 1873
      Container: Box 1, Item 34a
    • Description: Mill and log boom at Port Gamble, Washington
      Dates: 1877
      Container: Box 1, Item 34b
    • Description: Residence street in Port Gamble, Washington
      Dates: 1877
      Container: Box 1, Item 34c
    • Description: Buildings and water view in Union, Washington
      Dates: 1877
      Container: Box 1, Item 34d
    • Description: Buildings on waterfront in Tumwater, Washington
      Dates: 1877
      Container: Box 1, Item 34e
    • Description: Ships docked at Railroad wharf in Tacoma, Washington
      Dates: 1882
      Container: Box 1, Item 35a
    • Description: May Day picnickers in Tacoma
      Dates: 1875
      Container: Box 1, Item 35b
    • Description: Territorial Insane Asylum at Fort Steilacoom
      Dates: 1870s
      Container: Box 1, Item 35c
    • Description: St. Peters Church, Rectory, and Prosch house in Tacoma
      Dates: 1875
      Container: Box 1, Item 35d
    • Description: The Crawford, Harrington and Yesler wharves with steamship Dakota at dock
      Dates: 1878
      Container: Box 1, Item 36a
    • Description: Steamship Mexico
      Dates: 1880
      Container: Box 1, Item 36b
    • Description: Seattle Harbor
      Dates: 1880
      Container: Box 1, Item 36c
    • Description: Trinity S.S. picnic on steamer Zephyr at Port Madison
      Dates: 1876
      Container: Box 1, Item 36d
    • Description: Steamer Dakota at Yesler Wharf
      Dates: 1882
      Container: Box 1, Item 37a
    • Description: Post Building, which housed offices of the Post-Intelligencer
      Moore Photo (photographer)
      Dates: between 1880 and 1890
      Container: Box 1, Item 37b
    • Description: Five stern wheelers docked at Yesler wharf
      Dates: 1880
      Container: Box 1, Item 37c
    • Description: Seattle wharf and waterfront
      Dates: 1882
      Container: Box 1, Item 38a
    • Description: Crowd of people in front of Occidental Hotel, Seattle

      Written on page: Scene of the funeral obsequies of President Garfield in front of Occidental Hotel.

      Dates: October 1881
      Container: Box 1, Item 38b
    • Description: First Avenue viewed from Yesler North, Seattle
      Dates: 1878
      Container: Box 1, Item 38c
    • Description: First Avenue South near Washington Street, Seattle
      Dates: 1878
      Container: Box 1, Item 38d
    • Description: Steamship Queen of the Pacific entering the harbor

      Written on page: Celebration at Seattle September 16, 1883, of the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and driving of the last (gold) spike, in Montana some days before. Twelve following pictures.

      Dates: September 16, 1883
      Container: Box 1, Item 39a
    • Description: Steamship Queen of the Pacific at dock

      Written on page: Same ship arriving at the wharf, with guests on board of President Henry Villard.

      Dates: September 16, 1883
      Container: Box 1, Item 39b
    • Description: Group portrait of the town band on First Avenue, Seattle
      Dates: September 16, 1883
      Container: Box 1, Item 40a
    • Description: Archway with banners on First Avenue South near Yesler, Seattle
      Dates: September 16, 1883
      Container: Box 1, Item 40b
    • Description: Group portrait of Knights of Pythias at First Avenue South and Marion Street, Seattle
      Dates: September 16, 1883
      Container: Box 1, Item 40c
    • Description: University building with welcome banner

      Written on page: The University bedecked for the celebration.

      Dates: September 16, 1883
      Container: Box 1, Item 41a
    • Description: People posing with cattle

      Written on page: Exhibition of old time logging team.

      Dates: September 16, 1883
      Container: Box 1, Item 41b
    • Description: Crowd in exhibition structure

      Written on page: View from cupola of University of this occasion.

      Dates: September 16, 1883
      Container: Box 1, Item 41c
    • Description: Men cooking beef on large rotisseries

      Written on page: The two Barbecues-one of meats by the whites, and one of clams and fish by the Indians.

      Dates: September 16, 1883
      Container: Box 1, Item 42a
    • Description: Native Americans cooking clams and fish

      Written on page: The two Barbecues-one of meats by the whites, and one of clams and fish by the Indians.

      Dates: September 16, 1883
      Container: Box 1, Item 42b
    • Description: Crowd of people at the eating area
      Dates: September 16, 1883
      Container: Box 1, Item 43a
    • Description: Crowd of people at the speaking area
      Dates: September 16, 1883
      Container: Box 1, Item 43b
    • Description: View of Seattle waterfront

      Written on page: Two views of the same scene taken four years apart.

      Dates: 1882
      Container: Box 1, Item 44a
    • Description: View of Seattle waterfront

      Written on page: Two views of the same scene taken four years apart.

      Written on photo: Seattle showing Mt. Rainier.

      Dates: 1886
      Container: Box 1, Item 44b
    • Description: Seattle's first stone buildings at First Avenue South and Washington Street.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 45a
    • Description: Seattle waterfront
      Dates: 1887
      Container: Box 1, Item 45b
    • Description: Sailing ship Bark Memnon tipped over on her side at dock

      Written on page: Bark Memnonon her beam ends at Stetson & Post wharf in 1885.

      Dates: 1885
      Container: Box 1, Item 45c
    • Description: Two men standing near fence with buildings in background

      Written on page: Looking southeast from Pike Street near First Avenue.

      Dates: 1883
      Container: Box 1, Item 45d
    • Description: Snow-covered logs in water

      Written on page: Real winter in Seattle, 1884-5.

      Written on page: From coal bunkers, foot of King Street, looking south and east.

      Dates: circa 1884-1885
      Container: Box 1, Item 46a
    • Description: Snow-covered docks and buildings

      Written on page: Real winter in Seattle, 1884-5.

      Written on page: From same place, looking north and east.

      Dates: circa 1884-1885
      Container: Box 1, Item 46b
    • Description: People standing in snow-covered street

      Written on page: From First Avenue South, and Yesler, looking east.

      Dates: circa 1884-1885
      Container: Box 1, Item 47a
    • Description: Steamers City of Kingston and North Pacific in Puget Sound

      Written on page: Steamer City of Kingston with 200 Chamber of Commerce excursionists on board, leaving Seattle on morning of December 26, 1890, to meet the new steamer City of Seattle at Port Townsend, excursionists returning on new steamer in evening. Two old-time Puget Sound favorites.

      Dates: 1890
      Container: Box 1, Item 47b
    • Description: Crowd in street looking at clouds of smoke coming from buildings

      Written on page: Nineteen pictures representing the great fire of June 6, 1889, in which all the main business portion of Seattle was burned over, thirty blocks, houses and contents, with losses in all aggregating $15,000,000.

      The fire began as here shown on southwest corner First Avenue and Madison Street about 2pm in a paint shop, caused by the overturned contents of a glue pot igniting.

      Dates: June 6, 1889
      Container: Box 1, Item 48a
    • Description: Cloud of smoke coming from burning building

      Written on page: An early view of the fire, while yet confined to the block in which it originated, from Pike street

      Dates: June 6, 1889
      Container: Box 1, Item 48b
    • Description: Smoke over the Seattle, Lakeshore & Eastern Depot, west end of Columbia Street

      Written on page: Depots, warehouses, wharves, sidewalks, railroads, even the streets, were destroyed.

      Dates: June 6, 1889
      Container: Box 1, Item 49a
    • Description: Charred remains of the Occidental Hotel

      Written on page: This fine building went as if it were made of boards and paper. The people then gave up hope, and allowed the fire to burn until all was gone that would burn.

      Dates: June 6, 1889
      Container: Box 1, Item 49b
    • Description: People standing in front of the remains of Post Building after the Seattle fire

      Written on page: This was the Post Building; erected in 1881, occupied then and for eight years by the Post Intelligencer . It stood on Yesler Way, where the Mutual Life house now is.

      Dates: June 6, 1889
      Container: Box 1, Item 50a
    • Description: Charred ruins of buildings

      Written on page: Here were the Post, Yesler, and Yesler-Leary Buildings, facing 160 feet on Yesler Way.

      Dates: June 6, 1889
      Container: Box 1, Item 50b
    • Description: Charred ruins of the Safe Deposit, Poncin, Union and San Francisco buildings

      Written on page: The finest lot of business houses in the city, in 1888-89, were those represented by these ruins. The block extended from Yesler Way to Columbia Street, 550 feet, and then down Yesler 160 feet more. The people were proud of this great block. The fire wiped it out in an hour.

      Dates: June 6, 1889
      Container: Box 1, Item 51a
    • Description: People cleaning street and house debris on First Avenue
      Dates: June 6, 1889
      Container: Box 1, Item 51b
    • Description: Charred ruins looking south from Second and Marion Streets

      Written on page: Second Avenue in June, 1889, had but two brick buildings. North of Columbia it was used for residence purposes only. Its shade trees checked the flames. Not a house was left standing on its west side from Spring Street south.

      Dates: June 6, 1889
      Container: Box 1, Item 52a
    • Description: Charred ruins of buildings

      Written on page: Desolation, wreck, ruin. In the heart of the devastated district. Scene from Washington Street and Occidental Avenue

      Dates: June 6, 1889
      Container: Box 1, Item 52b
    • Description: Ruins of the Washington Iron Works

      Written on page: Though all but the iron here was burned and destroyed, the Washington Iron Works have since risen greater in every respect than before.

      Dates: June 1889
      Container: Box 1, Item 53a
    • Description: Charred ruins in distance looking north from transfer stables

      Written on page: Here, where it encountered the bay, and less material, the fire ceased of sheer necessity.

      Dates: June 1889
      Container: Box 1, Item 53b
    • Description: Charred ruins on the waterfront

      Written on page: The waterfront from Main to Madison, also First Avenue, a few days after the fire.

      Dates: June 1889
      Container: Box 1, Item 54a
    • Description: Charred ruins with new construction in foreground

      Written on page: First Avenue from Madison Street north, as seen from wharves, with houses to the east on Second, Third and Fourth Avenues.

      Dates: June 1889
      Container: Box 1, Item 54b
    • Description: The burned blocks between First and Second Avenues, Columbia and James streets

      Written on page: This is as it looked a week or two after the fire. The debris was being removed, tents were everywhere, and new brick houses were constructing. It was a tented city later.

      Dates: June 1889
      Container: Box 1, Item 55a
    • Description: People and tents near Third and Jefferson looking to the south and west
      Dates: June 1889
      Container: Box 1, Item 55b
    • Description: Dexter Horton Bank building

      Written on page: The first stone houses in Seattle. They withstood the fire almost successfully, and were the only buildings in the burned section used after the fire. In 1891 they gave way to a new and more pretentious structure.

      Dates: June 1889
      Container: Box 1, Item 56a
    • Description: Group gathered under Tacoma Relief Bureau Tent

      Written on page: Third Avenue, where Federal Building now stands. Tacoma people raised $20,000 which they gave to the Seattle Committee for relief of the destitute and suffering. With part of the money lodgings and meals were furnished free to the needy for some weeks.

      Dates: 1889
      Container: Box 1, Item 56b
    • Description: People standing next to tent with buildings in background

      Written on page: A Bureau of found goods was established in the Denny yard at Third and Union, on the present Government building ground, and which Bureau is here represented.

      Dates: 1889
      Container: Box 1, Item 57a
    • Description: Ships docked in Seattle

      Written on page: President Harrison visited Seattle in June, 1891, arriving on the steamerCity of Seattleamid whistle blowing, flag flying, cannon firing, band playing and people shouting. The day was cloudy and some rain fell, marring the enjoyment considerably.

      Boyd and Brass, Seattle (photographer)
      Dates: June 1891
      Container: Box 1, Item 57b
    • Description: Crowd gathered near Occidental Square

      Written on page: These three views are of the Presidential party and populace on Yesler Way and First Avenue. After a drive through the city, short speeches and a reception were indulged in on the University ground.

      Dates: June 1891
      Container: Box 1, Item 58a
    • Description: Crowd gathered in front of South park Land Company building.

      Written on photo: President Harrison passing through the arch, Occidental Square.

      Boyd and Brass, Seattle (photographer)
      Dates: June 1891
      Container: Box 1, Item 58b
    • Description: Crowd on street watching parade

      Written on page: First Avenue from Cherry Street north.

      Dates: July 4, 1888
      Container: Box 1, Item 59a
    • Description: Crowd on street under large American flag

      Written on page: First Avenue from Cherry Street north.

      Dates: July 4, 1888
      Container: Box 1, Item 59b
    • Description: Group of pioneers at Madison Park Pavilion

      Written on page: Pioneers at the reunion of 1899.

      Dates: 1899
      Container: Box 1, Item 60
    • Description: Group of pioneers in front of Washington Pioneers building

      Written on page: At the Pioneer reunion. Before the session.

      Dates: June 21, 1904
      Container: Box 1, Item 61a
    • Description: Group of pioneers in front of Washington Pioneers building

      Written on page: At the Pioneer reunion. After the session.

      Dates: June 21, 1904
      Container: Box 1, Item 61b
    • Description: View of Seattle from Denny Hill

      Written on page: As Seattle looked three years after the great fire of 1889. The last business quarter had then been replaced by streets and houses greater, finer and in every way more suitable.

      Dates: 1892
      Container: Box 1, Item 62a
    • Description: View of Seattle from Denny Hill

      Written on page: As Seattle looked three years after the great fire of 1889. The last business quarter had then been replaced by streets and houses greater, finer and in every way more suitable.

      Dates: 1892
      Container: Box 1, Item 62b
    • Description: Seattle viewed from the harbor
      Dates: circa 1895-1896
      Container: Box 1, Item 63a
    • Description: City of Seattle ship near docks

      Written on page: Popular passenger carriers.

      Dates: circa 1895-1896
      Container: Box 1, Item 63b
    • Description: Fleetwood ship in Puget Sound

      Written on page: Popular passenger carriers.

      Dates: circa 1895-1896
      Container: Box 1, Item 63c
    • Description: Trinity Church at Eighth and James Streets

      Written on page: Destroyed by fire Jan. 1902.

      Gow (photographer)
      Dates: 1900
      Container: Box 1, Item 64a
    • Description: Ships, including the Olympian, at the Columbia and Puget Sound railroad docks

      Written on page: This group of nine pictures is illustrative of Seattle in 1888. All the wharves and all the fine houses shown but one were burned on the 6th of June, 1889.

      Gazzam and Company, Seattle (photographer)
      Dates: 1888
      Container: Box 1, Item 64b
    • Description: Print of Seattle waterfront
      Dates: circa 1888
      Container: Box 1, Item 65a
    • Description: Print of coal bunkers and ships
      Dates: circa 1888
      Container: Box 1, Item 65b
    • Description: Print of Yesler Block and Schwabacher Brothers buildings
      Dates: circa 1888
      Container: Box 1, Item 65c
    • Description: Print of building on Front street, looking north
      Dates: circa 1888
      Container: Box 1, Item 65d
    • Description: Print of Toklas & Singerman Block buildings
      Dates: circa 1888
      Container: Box 1, Item 65e
    • Description: Print of Frye's Opera House
      Dates: circa 1888
      Container: Box 1, Item 65f
    • Description: Print of Boston Block and Post Office building
      Dates: circa 1888
      Container: Box 1, Item 65g
    • Description: Print of Union Block buildings
      Dates: 1888
      Container: Box 1, Item 65h
    • Description: Print of ships near Seattle,viewed from harbor

      Written on page: Seattle in 1887. Sixteen pictures. It's people numbered about 12,000. It was then the largest town in Washington Territory.

      Dates: 1887
      Container: Box 1, Item 66a
    • Description: Postcard-style print of Mount Baker, from Lake Washington
      Dates: 1887
      Container: Box 1, Item 66b
    • Description: Print of Seattle, from Capitol Hill

      Written on page: From Second Avenue and Steward Street.

      Dates: 1887
      Container: Box 1, Item 66c
    • Description: Print of Olympic Mountain Range, from Seattle Harbor
      Dates: 1887
      Container: Box 1, Item 66d
    • Description: Print of Schwabacher Bros & Co. and Fry's Opera House buildings

      Written on page: These were the large, fine business houses of the city. Such houses relatively were greater than like houses in later days.

      Dates: 1887
      Container: Box 1, Item 67a
    • Description: Print of the Arlington House building
      Dates: 1887
      Container: Box 1, Item 67b
    • Description: Print of a Front Street business block
      Dates: 1887
      Container: Box 1, Item 67c
    • Description: Print of Occidental Hotel
      Dates: 1887
      Container: Box 1, Item 67d
    • Description: Print of Bell's Hotel, North Seattle; Squires Building, W.D. Scott & Co., M. Densmore buildings
      Dates: 1887
      Container: Box 1, Item 67e
    • Description: Print of Yesler-Leary Block buildings
      Dates: 1887
      Container: Box 1, Item 67f
    • Description: Print of Sullivan's Block and the Golden Rule Bazaar buildings
      Dates: 1887
      Container: Box 1, Item 68a
    • Description: Print of Territorial University and Central School buildings

      Written on page: Of these school houses the people were proud. They were the best yet built.

      Dates: 1887
      Container: Box 1, Item 68b
    • Description: Print of North School and Sisters Academy buildings
      Dates: 1887
      Container: Box 1, Item 68c
    • Description: Print of homes of Jas. McNaught, M.V. Stacy, H.L. Yesler, and John Leary

      Written on page: These were the costly, elegant dwellings of the city.

      Dates: 1887
      Container: Box 1, Item 68d
    • Description: Print of homes of S. Gatzert, O.J. Carr, M. Densmore, and D.B. Ward
      Dates: 1887
      Container: Box 1, Item 68e
    • Description: Print of homes of Fred E. Sander, Joseph F. McNaught, G.C. Phinney, and George W. Hall
      Dates: 1887
      Container: Box 1, Item 68f
    • Description: Print of the Pioneer Building, Chief Seattle, King County Court House, people picking hops, Angeline, daughter of Chief Seattle, and the New York Building
      Dates: 1893
      Container: Box 1, Item 69a
    • Description: Print of the Denny Hotel, Bailey Building, Haller Building, Front Street, Hotel Rainier, and the Burke Building
      Dates: 1893
      Container: Box 1, Item 69b
    • Description: Print of Seattle waterfront and harbor with sailing and steamships, Section 1

      Written on page: These views represent Seattle as it was in 1893. The changes of the preceding few years were among the most remarkable in the experiences of the cities of the world. This photo is in two parts, section 2 is on page 71.

      Dates: 1893
      Container: Box 1, Item 70a
    • Description: Print of Seattle waterfront and Olympic Mountains as seen from Court House, Section 1

      This photo is in two parts, section 2 is on page 71.

      Dates: 1893
      Container: Box 1, Item 70b
    • Description: Print of Seattle waterfront and harbor with sailing and steamships, Section 2

      Written on page: During the six years from 1887 to 1893 Seattle increased its inhabitants four times and more, from 12,000 in number to 55,000.

      This photo is in two parts, section 1 is on page 70.

      Dates: 1893
      Container: Box 1, Item 71a
    • Description: Print of Seattle waterfront and Olympic Mountains as seen from Court House, Section 2

      This photo is in two parts, section 1 is on page 70.

      Dates: 1893
      Container: Box 1, Item 71b
    • Description: Print of Mount Rainier; view of Second Street, north from Yesler Avenue
      Dates: 1893
      Container: Box 1, Item 72a
    • Description: Print of homes of Otto Ranke and H. L. Yesler; Central School; Congregational School; Academy of the Holy Names
      Dates: 1893
      Container: Box 1, Item 72b
    • Description: Print of Snoqualmie Falls; a cedar stump with 72 persons on top; railcar with logs
      Dates: 1893
      Container: Box 1, Item 72c
    • Description: H.L Yesler's residence

      Written on page: Below is a photograph copied from another preserved by Mr. Yesler; also photographic copy of his certificate to the authenticity of the picture. Mrs. Yesler, in old style hoopskirt is depicted on the porch.

      This view was taken from the intersection of First Avenue, James Street and Yesler way, in 1860. The house on the front was that of the Yeslers. It was enlarged later. The sawmill was across First Avenue from it. Seattle's first water enterprise is shown in the V-shaped flume on poles on James street. The house on the right was that of Captain S.D. Libby, afterwards of Dr. H.A. Smith. Between Smith's and Yeslers is the Hillory Butler house. The other dwelling is that of L.V. Wyckoff. The other houses are Yesler's barns. The timber line then was the present Third Avenue. Yesler's maples had just been planted.

      Dates: 1860
      Container: Box 1, Item 73
    • Description: Seattle waterfront

      Written on page: As Seattle looked in 1871. From a painting by Fife. It is difficult now to conceive that the land east of Third Avenue was so broken as here depicted. Prominently shown are the University, Central School, Brown, White and Catholic Churches, Denny, Brown, Shoudy, Young.

      Dates: 1871
      Container: Box 1, Item 74a
    • Description: Home of Dr. D.S. Maynard

      Written on page: This photograph is from a painting by Coombs. It represents the house built by Dr. D.S. Maynard on the NW corner of First Avenue South and Main Street, in 1852. Here he lived and did business as a merchant and salmon packer. Of course, the picture is only an approximate likeness.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 74b
    • Description: Photo of a drawing depicting the Battle of Seattle in 1856

      Written on page: This also from a sketch, or painting, by Clarence Hanford. It is somewhat inaccurate. The west row of houses stood on the beach, the tide under several of them. The mill was opposite the first house near it. The house to south was on the point. Bark Brontes and U.S. ship Decatur are the vessels.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: circa 1880s
      Container: Box 1, Item 75a
    • Description: Seattle waterfront

      Written on page: Seattle, from Marion Street to Union, in 1870. The prominent buildings are Woodwards warehouse, Amos Brown's dwelling, M.P. Church, Central School, University, John Denny, W.H. Shoudy and other dwellings.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: circa 1870s
      Container: Box 1, Item 75b
    • Description: Seattle street showing businesses including the Pony Saloon

      Written on page: These two pictures, about 1871, were taken from Main Street, looking north. They show among other houses Yesler's Hall, the Masonic Hall, Central School and University, M.E. Church, the main business section of the town, and the homes of L.B. Andrews, D. N. Hyde, Wm. Meydenbauer, O.C. Shorey and C.D. Emory. The timber line is about Fifth Avenue.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: circa 1871
      Container: Box 1, Item 76a
    • Description: Seattle street showing businesses including the Cosmopolitan Hotel
      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: circa 1871
      Container: Box 1, Item 76b
    • Description: Buildings on Fourth Avenue

      Written on page: Fourth Avenue, in 1872, from Seneca South. The dwellings on east side are those, beginning at north, of D.S. Lacey, O. Jacobs, H.B. Bagley, H. Burnett and S. P. Randolph, on the west side L. B. Andrews, I.M. Hall, D.R. Lord, H.A. Atkins and S.W. Russell. The churches are the Baptist and Catholic.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: circa 1872
      Container: Box 1, Item 77a
    • Description: Buildings viewed from Pike and Third Streets

      Written on page: From Pike and Third in 1874. Among the dwellings on Third Avenue are those of Dr. Calhoun, Captain Nickels, John Denny, A. Makintosh and Dexter Horton.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: circa 1874
      Container: Box 1, Item 77b
    • Description: Ships and docks in Seattle

      Written on page: The waterfront of Seattle from Columbia street north in 1876. The buildings are those of the North Pacific Brewery; the hulk that of the barkWindward; the wharf that of the S.C. & T Co. foot of Pike Street, and the steamship the City of Panama

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: 1876
      Container: Box 1, Item 78a
    • Description: Seattle street showing storefronts

      Written on page: Seattle, from the New England Hotel, Main Street and First Avenue South, in 1875. The Horton Bank (stone) and the Schwabacher brick are to be seen on the left; but not the Colman, 1875, brick on the right.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: 1875
      Container: Box 1, Item 78b
    • Description: Log house on hill

      Written on page: Jacob Galer's log house. The location of this house was the NW corner of Highland Drive and Fifth Avenue North, on Queen Anne Hill.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: 1900
      Container: Box 1, Item 79a
    • Description: Wood-framed house

      Written on page: The oldest house in Seattle. Built by Thomas Mercer in 1853, and occupied by him and family as home on his donation claim in north part of city.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: 1900
      Container: Box 1, Item 79b
    • Description: Charles Plummer house

      Written on page: This house was built by Charles Plummer in 1859. It was one of the best business houses in Seattle. It stood on the southwest corner of First Avenue South and Main Street. The wharf in the rear was also Plummer's. The water in the V shaped flume came from a spring near Washington Street and Third Avenue South. The store was for a time conducted by Plummer alone; later by Plummer & Harris, Plummer & Deshaw and Plummer & Hinds. On the upper floor was a popular hall. The Tremont Hotel was kept in it during its later years. It was burned June 6, 1889.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 80
    • Description: E.M. Sammis house

      Written on page: This house was built by E.M. Sammis, photographer, in 1865. The location was on south side of Yesler Way, between First Avenues South and Occidental. His gallery was on upper floor; A.S. Pinkham's Variety Store, and Kellogg Brother's drug store below. In the 70s Dr. H.B. Bagley had the upper floor, and M.R. Maddocks drugstore the lower.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 81
    • Description: Captain Leonard M. Felker house

      Written on page: August 4th, 1853, D.S. Maynard sold to Captain Leonard M. Felker block 4 for $350. It was surrounded by Jackson and King Streets, First and Railroad Avenues. Felker at once built this house, the finest in Seattle for a number of years. In it the District Court was held, public meetings, and fine social affairs. M.R. Maddocks, John Leary, Bailey Gatzert, A.C. Anderson, J.S. Hill, S. Kermey, and other pioneers lived in it with their families. Burned June 6, 1889. Mrs. Conklin, otherwise known as "Mother Damnable" was, perhaps the most noted tenant. The house cost Felker $4500. He sold the property to A.C. Anderson in 1861 for $2000. Anderson held it about thirty years, getting for it, out of three different transactions, $51,000.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 82a
    • Description: Charles Plummer house

      Written on page: The Charles Plummer house built 1858, on northeast corner Jackson street and Occidental Avenue. The picture was taken about 1885, the house having been enlarged and improved in the meantime. Many of Seattle's prominent citizens roomed here in the 70s and 80s.

      Dates: circa 1885
      Container: Box 1, Item 82b
    • Description: Seattle waterfront and buildings

      Written on page: This picture, or pair of pictures, represents Seattle as it was in 1871. They were taken from a point just north of Pike Street near Second Avenue. Steamer Black Diamond is alongside the Yesler wharf. The most prominent dwelling is that of Arthur A. Denny. The Frank Guttenberg Garden, on Second Avenue north of Madison street, shows up. The Methodist Protestant Church is seen; also the Catholic. The dwellings include those of Goodburn, Mackintosh, Fisher, Guye, Smith (D.S.), Whitworth, Bagley (H.B.) and others. The line of tall timber was then about Fifth Avenue.

      Dates: circa 1871
      Container: Box 1, Item 83a
    • Description: Buildings and fenced properties in Seattle
      Dates: circa 1871
      Container: Box 1, Item 83b
    • Description: Seattle street and buildings

      Written on page: Seattle in 1872. View from Main Street and Occidental Avenue, looking north. Occidental Hotel is the conspicuous building in center. The Central School, then the only schoolhouse in town, is to be seen; also the M.E. Church tower, and the dwellings of the Emory, Hyde, Meydenbauer, Shorey, Atkins and Terry families.

      Dates: circa 1872
      Container: Box 1, Item 84a
    • Description: Seattle buildings and water view

      Written on page: Seattle in 1872, as seen from the cupola of the University. The Yesler, Horton and Plummer wharves are the most noteworthy objects. Yesler's mill and the steamer Zephyr are seen. Third Avenue is shown from Seneca south to near Madison Street. The changes of later years have caused the disappearance of much of the bay shown in pictures of the olden times.

      Dates: circa 1872
      Container: Box 1, Item 84b
    • Description: Snow-covered street and buildings in Seattle

      Written on page: The deepest snow on record. Four feet on the level; five feet in drifts. Date: January 1880. View is from First Avenue east on Cherry street. On the right are Yesler's Hall, Wyckoff dwelling and Baptist Church; on the left are business houses, and dwellings of J.R. Lewis and A.C. Anderson.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: 1880
      Container: Box 1, Item 85a
    • Description: Seattle street and buildings

      Written on page: First Avenue looking north from Cherry Street in 1878. Parts of the Kenney, Hall, Maddocks, Brown and Denny dwellings are shown.

      Peterson & Bro (photographer)
      Dates: 1878
      Container: Box 1, Item 85b
    • Description: People on snow-covered street

      Written on page: The same view in January 1880, with four feet of snow on the ground.

      Dates: 1880
      Container: Box 1, Item 85c
    • Description: Buildings and ships at Seattle waterfront

      Written on page: These two views together represent the city of Seattle as it looked in 1878. The camera stood at Pike Street and Second Avenue.

      Peterson Brothers (photographer)
      Dates: 1878
      Container: Box 1, Item 86a
    • Description: Seattle houses and buildings
      Peterson Brothers (photographer)
      Dates: 1878
      Container: Box 1, Item 86b
    • Description: Marching band on Second Avenue in Seattle

      Written on page: The east side of Second Avenue from near Cherry street looking north in 1886.

      Dates: 1886
      Container: Box 1, Item 87a
    • Description: Large building on First Avenue in Seattle

      Written on page: This was the finest business block in the Territory of Washington on the 6th of June, 1889. At 6 o'clock that evening it was a burning, smouldering mass of ruins. It was supposed to be safe against fire. It was the west side of First Avenue north from Yesler.

      Dates: June 1889
      Container: Box 1, Item 87b
    • Description: People walking on wooden sidewalk in Seattle

      Written on page: The great fire of June 6, 1889, started in the basement of the Pontius building, and burned every house standing on the ground shown in this picture, not including the hill beyond. Many of the houses here had been replaced with large and finer structures. Piece of building on right is Pontius house, corner Madison Street. Next is the Woodward flour mill, corner of Marion. Next the North Pacific Brewery, corner of Columbia. Third story of Arlington Hotel shows in center of picture. A.W. Piper and son are in the foreground, Beacon Hill in background.

      Dates: 1880
      Container: Box 1, Item 88
    • Description: Photo of a drawing of the execution of James Sullivan, William Howard and Benjamin Payne

      Written on page: For the murder of George B. Reynolds January 17th, 1882, James Sullivan and William Howard were hung by the people the day following. At the same time Benjamin Payne was hung for the murder of David Sires. The two named first were given examination before Justice Coombs. This photograph is copy of a drawing by A.W. Piper. It is very accurate, and easily recognized by eyewitnesses of the transaction. This event occurred on James Street, near First Avenue, on the south side of the Yesler dwelling. The trees were maples planted in 1859. H.L. Yesler and William Gross are plainly seen in the foreground, Gross in lower right hand corner, Yesler with knife and stick in hand. Gross weighed 400 pounds. Atkins, Jordan, Kellogg, ?, Green, Wyckoff were prominent actors in this affair.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 89
    • Description: Parade on Commercial Street, now First Avenue South

      Written on page: In this picture are shown bits of the three-story wooden buildings known as the Brunswick, Arlington and New England Hotels; also W.D. Scott's store. The brick and stone buildings are Schwabacher's, Horton's, Marshall's, Parker's, Colman's and McNaught's. This was then the best business part of Seattle.

      Souvenir Art Studio (photographer)
      Dates: 1887
      Container: Box 1, Item 90
    • Description: Houses and water tower in Seattle

      Written on page: Block bounded by Cherry and Columbia Streets, Ninth and Terry Avenues, Seattle. The houses shown were built by Charles Coppin in the 70s and 80s. The tower was used as a tank in connection with the Coppin water works. The property passed from Coppin to Harrington & Smith.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 91
    • Description: Ships docked at Yesler wharf

      Written on page: The outer end of the Yesler wharf in the later 70s, where Railroad Avenue now is. The sawmill fronted in Post Street. The building near center on right was used at first as a coal bunker, afterwards as a workshop and warehouse.

      Peterson Brothers (photographer)
      Dates: 1878
      Container: Box 1, Item 92a
    • Description: Buildings on First Avenue in Seattle

      Written on page: East side of First Avenue from Cherry Street to Columbia in 1880. The houses from left to right were W.W. White's, Leonard Reinig's, John Sullivan's and Chris Scheurman's.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: 1880
      Container: Box 1, Item 92b
    • Description: R.W. Pontius house

      Written on page: The home of the Pontius family, on their farm midway between Seattle bay and Lake Union. House was erected by R.W. Pontius about 1870. Mrs. Margaret J. Pontius stands in front. Picture was taken about 1890. A few years later a fine new home nearby was occupied.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: circa 1890
      Container: Box 1, Item 93a
    • Description: Group of buildings and homes in Seattle

      Written on page: The central property here shown was the W. N. Bell residence block as it was in 1886. The most central building is the Bell home. The largest house is the Bell Hotel, erected 1884. Block is surrounded by Bell and Battery Streets First and Second Avenues.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: 1886
      Container: Box 1, Item 93b
    • Description: Arthur A. Denny house

      Written on page: The dwelling of Arthur A. Denny, built in 1865, but enlarged and beautified in 1880. Location-First Avenue, east side, between Union and University Streets. When built it was one of the finest houses in Seattle. Mr. Denny died here in 1899. This house was torn down in 1906, to make room for a new large modern business block.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: 1900
      Container: Box 1, Item 94a
    • Description: J.J. McGilvra house

      Written on page: The J.J. McGilvra home, known as "Laurel Shade," built on Lake Washington. Before the extension of Madison Street, it was the landing and shipping place for that neighborhood, the Portage and Yesler's being the other two on the west side of the lake.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: 1900
      Container: Box 1, Item 94b
    • Description: Charles C. Terry house built in 1865

      Written on page: The dwelling of Charles C. Terry, built in 1865, on Third Avenue, between James and Cherry. It was moved in 1889 to the rear, and fronted on James Street, where (in 1906) it still stands. For twenty years it was one of Seattle's finest houses. Since above was written, this house was torn down, to make room for a large business block-February, 1906.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: circa 1900s
      Container: Box 1, Item 95a
    • Description: Itas F. Roberts house

      Written on page: This house was built in 1869 on the southeast corner of Fourth and Madison streets, by and for Itas F. Roberts, the first Protestant Episcopal minister in Seattle. It still stands, in the midst of houses that are many times larger, and in some cases a hundred times more costly. Roberts did not live long here. He was one of the earliest of his denomination in Oregon or Washington.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: 1900
      Container: Box 1, Item 95b
    • Description: Robert Russell house

      Written on page: The house of Robert Russell, built about 1870, on the southeast corner of Fourth Avenue and James Street. The two lots were sold by the family in 1900 for $80,000. In 1906 they were sold again for $110,000.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: circa 1900s
      Container: Box 1, Item 96a
    • Description: Steamship Alida docked in Seattle

      Written on page: Seattle from the Yesler wharf looking to the northeast in 1870. Steamer Alida is at the foot of Columbia street, about Post. The most showy dwelling is at Second and Marion, where Burke building now is. It was then C.P. Stone's home. The Alida then was a new boat, owned by Starr Brothers, and for a time was a favorite. She ran out of Seattle a number of years.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: 1870
      Container: Box 1, Item 96b
    • Description: View of Seattle buildings and homes

      Written on page: Seattle north of Columbia Street in 1880. The bay then came up to First Avenue, which on the west side, was held up by a wall of logs. The building on the left over the water was the Pontius, in which the fire of June 6, 1889 started. Next to it on the right was a house built for a flour mill by Woodard after whom the house was long known.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: 1880
      Container: Box 1, Item 97a
    • Description: Seattle houses and on Pike Street

      Written on page: A view from Pike Street and Second Avenue to the southeast in 1880. The dwellings shown include John T. Jordan's, A.W. Piper's, John Denny's, Harmon's, Whitworth's and other of well known people of that time.

      Photo is a Peiser copy of Peterson Brothers original.

      Peterson Brothers (photographer)
      Dates: 1878
      Container: Box 1, Item 97b
    • Description: Buildings along First Avenue

      Written on page: First Avenue from Yesler Way North looked like this in 1880. On the right was first Yesler's home, east of the shade trees, and next to it was the Masonic Hall; just beyond the steps indicating Yesler's Hall. Across the street were the Malson Meat Market, Doane's Baths, Chilberg and Roe groceries, Boyd, Poncin & Young dry goods store, and the Intelligencer newspaper.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: 1880
      Container: Box 1, Item 98a
    • Description: Construction site with sign reading: Denny & Hoyt, Town Site

      Written on page: In this picture is shown the beginning of Fremont, May, 1888. It became quite a town, but in 1891, was annexed to Seattle. It is on Lake Union, at the outlet or canal. It was named after Fremont in Nebraska.

      Dates: May 1888
      Container: Box 1, Item 98b
    • Description: Elevated railroad tracks above the water

      Written on page: The Seattle lake shore and Eastern Railroad in 1888, from Union Street north. The houses on the highland are the Ingraham, Root, Coombs and other dwellings between First and Second Avenues. The houses below are those of fishermen, beachcombers and other undesirable classes.

      Peiser (photographer)
      Dates: 1888
      Container: Box 1, Item 99a
    • Description: The Intelligencer office building

      Written on page: The location was on First Avenue at the west end of Cherry Street.

      Dates: 1874
      Container: Box 1, Item 99b
    • Description: View of Seattle across the water from Marion Street North
      Dates: 1870
      Container: Box 1, Item 99c
    • Description: The first court house for King County

      Written on page: The first courthouse of King County, at the corner of Jefferson street and Third Avenue, built in 188[?] The second story of the county jail appears on the right or south. Sold to the city of Seattle in 1891, and used since with many changes and additions for a City Hall. The house on the hilltop is the dwelling of Beriah Brown, on Seventh Avenue and Terrace Street. Three blocks to the west is the M.S. Booth dwelling.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 100a
    • Description: D.R. Lord house

      Written on page: House built by D.R. Lord in 1868. It was occupied as a dwelling by the Lord family that of M.S. Booth, David Kellogg and L.S.J. Hunt. After the great fire of 1889, the P.I. for a time was issued from it add a tent in the rear. Location: Northwest corner of Columbia street and Fourth Avenue. In the picture are to be seen the front of the A.B. Young house, the rear of B.F. Briggs house and the top of Providence Hospital.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Item 100b

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Subject Terms

  • Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)

Personal Names

  • Prosch, Thomas Wickham, 1850-1915--Photographs
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