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| Title | Fremont Avenue looking north, Seattle, ca. 1907 |
| Photographer | Webster & Stevens |
| Date | ca. 1907 |
| Caption | Seattle's Fremont neighborhood, northwest of Lake Union, was named after a town in Nebraska where some of its early promoters hailed from. Fremont started in the 1880s as a settlement around a sawmill, and grew to a town of 5, 000 before it became part of Seattle in 1891. |
| Notes | Signs in image: Mabel E. Canney - Piano. [...] Laundry. Fremont Drug Co. - Candies, Drugs. Look Out for the Cars. [Ice] Cream. The Hotel [Dixon?].
Handwritten on sleeve: Fremont Ave Business District.
Caption by MOHAI staff. |
| Subjects | Commercial streets--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Fremont (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.7777 |
| 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 glass negative: b&w; 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made 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 | 6808 |
