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| Title | Frederick & Nelson department store exterior, ca. 1918 |
| Photographer | Webster & Stevens |
| Date | 1918 |
| Caption | The first Frederick & Nelson retail store opened in 1889, right after Seattle's great fire. By 1916, the company was doing so well that it built a large new store at Fifth Avenue and Pike Street, which many people thought was too far out of town. Frederick & Nelson was one of Seattle's landmark companies for over a century. It closed in the 1990s.
This photo shows Seattle's Frederick & Nelson department store building shortly after it opened. A policeman directs Seattle's increasing car traffic at the corner of Fifth and Pike. |
| Subjects | Department stores; Frederick & Nelson |
| Places | Seattle (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.1257 |
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| Credit Line | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI).; Scanned by MOHAI staff. |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 negative : nitrate, b&w ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 4.
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| Photographer's Reference Number | W&S 66, 359 |
