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| Title | Union Mercantile Co. building, Hillman City, 1904 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1904 |
| Caption | This building stood on the northwest corner of Rainier and Orcas. The company had two telephone numbers because the two competing phone companies could not transfer calls. |
| Notes | Lettering on building reads: Real Estate Office. Homes Built. Easy Payments. Montana Addition. Union Mercantile Co. Phones East 6386, Ind. 77. Gen. Merchandise. Blasting Powder, Hardware. Candies, Fruit. Groceries & Hardware. Cigars & Tobacco.
Advertisements on building read: Pearline, the modern soap. Arm & Hammer Soda.
Signs on buildings to right read: The Annex. R.E. Wood's Real Estate Office for Rainier Valley Transfer Co., Express/Baggage, Daily trips to/from city. Loans & Insurance. Now is the time to buy, Houses built on easy terms, R.E. Wood.
Handwritten on verso: 1904. Old Toby Bldg 1904. N.E. [sic] Corner of Rainier & Orcas. Later torn down & rebuilt. 3/74 checked with Tom Toby OK.
Caption taken from RVHS records. |
| Subjects | Grocery stores--Washington (State)--Seattle
Hardware stores--Washington (State)--Seattle
Real estate business--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Hillman City (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Rainier Valley Historical Society Photograph Collection |
| Accession Number | 93.001.004 |
| Ordering Information | To order a copy of this photograph, please email Rvhsoffice@aol.com and mention the Accession Number. |
| Repository | Rainier Valley Historical Society, Seattle |
| Repository Collection | Hall-Summers Collection |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print: b&w; 6 x 8 in. |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned 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. |
