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This is an image of a building or other location within the Pioneer Square-Skid Road Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The district has been successively enlarged, and hence has multiple NRHP IDs: 70000086, 78000341, and 88000739

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Railroad Avenue (now Alaskan Way) along the downtown Seattle waterfront. Photo accompanying essay "Seattle: Its Past, Present and Future" by Alden J. Blethen, Editor in Chief, Seattle Daily Times. Illustrated essay constitutes p. 7–11 of brochure Seattle and the Orient.

The same image (differently scanned) appears on the site of the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections; they attribute it to Anders Beer Wilse.
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p. 9 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.
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Book edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen; article by Alden J. Blethen; photo credited to "Seattle Eng Co" (Seattle Engineering Company). Photo, according to http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/imlsmohai&CISOPTR=3096&REC=5, is by:

Anders Beer Wilse  (1865–1949)  wikidata:Q144339
 
Anders Beer Wilse
Description Norwegian photographer
father of Robert Charles Wilse
Date of birth/death 12 June 1865 Edit this at Wikidata 21 February 1949 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Flekkefjord Municipality Edit this at Wikidata Oslo Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1900–49
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Kristiania (Oslo), Kragerø, Seattle
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creator QS:P170,Q144339
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