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| Title | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Building, 1948 |
| Photographer | Webster & Stevens |
| Date | 1948 |
| Caption | The Seattle Post-Intelligencer started publishing in 1881. In the late 1940s, the newspaper held a nationwide competition for an architect for a new building on Wall Street. The design included a large, revolving globe with an eagle on top, which stood above the entryway. The streamlined style of the building, with its glass and flat surfaces, was very popular during the 1930s and 1940s.
This photo shows the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Building in 1948, at about the time the building opened. Two men are cleaning the windows. The PI moved again in the 1986, and took the globe along to its new location on Elliott Avenue. The building in the photo became a branch clinic of the Group Health Cooperative. |
| Subjects | Newspaper industry; Commercial facilities |
| Places | Seattle (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.16879.2 |
| 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 negative: safety film, 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. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | W&S 483, 315 |
