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| Advertisement | Richmond Beach Real Estate (1904) |
| Company/Advertising Agency | G.A Virtue; McKinley & Watson |
| Publication Source | Seattle news-letter, Vol. 5 (5), p. 12 |
| Publisher | News-Letter Company |
| Publisher Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Publication Date | July 2, 1904
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| Advertisement Text | Camp on your own ground and improve it and in a few years you will have one of the most beautiful villa sites to be found anywhere on Puget Sound, where you can spend the summer months and be built up in body, soul and mind while you feast your beautiful eyes on the beautiful landscape...On your own terms, if you are one of the first twenty-five buyers, half acre tracts only $250. |
| Contextual Notes | Richmond Beach started out as a 98-acre tract of land deeded to George Fisher in 1872. Landowner C.W. Smith allegedly named it after the town of Richmond, England.
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| Category | Real estate and land development
Entertainment and leisure activities
Cost and standard of living |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Real estate development--Washington (State)--Richmond Beach; Private camps |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Investments |
| Geographic Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Digital Collection | Early Advertising |
| Digital ID Number | ADV0324 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Pacific Northwest Collection. 979.743 SEN |
| Object Type | Advertisement |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original drawing in RGB at 400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, changed to indexed color, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2008. |
