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| Advertisement | Seeing Seattle Car Tour (1905) |
| Company/Advertising Agency | Seattle Electric Company |
| Publication Source | Westerner, Vol 3 (3), p. 38 |
| Publisher | Westerner Company |
| Publisher Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Publication Date | July 1905
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| Advertisement Text | To see Seattle and its suburbs, take a ride over the Seattle Railway System of the Seattle Electric Company in their new observation cars. On of these cars makes a three-hour trip daily over various lines, leaving Second Avenue and Pike Street at 2:00 p.m...Fare 50c, Children 25c. |
| Contextual Notes | In 1901, the Seattle Electric Company owned all 22 of the city's streetcar lines. In 1919, the city of Seattle purchased the entire streetcar system for $15 million, forming the Seattle Municipal Street Railway.
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| Category | Railroad travel
Transportation and communication
Tourism and travel
Cost and standard of living |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Railroad observation cars--Washington (State)--Seattle; Passengers-Washington (State)--Seattle; Sightseers--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Seattle Electric Company |
| Geographic Coverage | United States
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| Digital Collection | Early Advertising |
| Digital ID Number | ADV0379 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Pacific Northwest Collection. 979.505 WES |
| Object Type | Advertisement |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from text at 200-400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2008 |
