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| Title | Providence Hospital, Seattle, ca. 1911 |
| Photographer | Nowell, Frank H., 1864-1950 |
| Date | ca. 1911 |
| Caption | Between 1907 and 1912, Seattle's Providence Hospital built a large new brick building, at a cost of one million dollars. Designed by Somervell & Cote, it was a full-service hospital with six operating rooms and a nursing school. Patients were moved into the new building in September 1911.
This postcard shows Providence Hospital, now Providence Seattle Medical Center, at Seventeenth Avenue and Jefferson Street. The building with the smokestack (right) is a power plant. |
| Notes | Caption on image: New Providence Hospital, Seattle U.S.A. Photo by F.H. Nowell.
Caption on verso: New Providence Hospital, Seattle, Wash. Six stories high, 306 feet long. Accomodation [sic] for 300 patients.
Caption by MOHAI staff. |
| Subjects | Hospitals--Washington (State)--Seattle; Power plants--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Central District (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 2002.48.869 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Postcard Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 postcard: color; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original postcard as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
