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| Title | Sherman Clay & Co., Seattle, 1944 |
| Photographer | Webster & Stevens |
| Date | 1944 |
| Caption | Sherman Clay & Company opened its first music store in San Francisco in 1870, selling music and musical instruments. By 1910, it had stores in Tacoma and Seattle as well. Sherman Clay later moved its downtown Seattle store from Second Avenue to its current Fourth Avenue location near The Bon Marche. By the late 1940s, the company was also selling radios, record players, and television sets. |
| Notes | Signs in image: Sherman Clay & Co. - Pianos, Radios - Everything in Music. Up & Up Tavern - Cigars. Carpenters Hall. Hotel Ritz. [...] Food - The Pit. United [S...] [S...] Club. Pacific Liquidators. Ben Paris Recreation - Sporting Goods. [Jean?] Hall Feminine Apparel.
Handwritten on sleeve: Sherman Clay Co.
Caption by MOHAI staff. |
| Subjects | Music stores--Washington (State)--Seattle; Commercial streets--Washington (State)--Seattle; Business districts--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.17195 |
| 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 | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 safety film negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | 44-1062 |
