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East side of Columbia City, 1896
East side of Columbia City, 1896
TitleEast side of Columbia City, 1896
PhotographerUnknown
Date1896
CaptionEast Columbia City from about 39th and Brandon. Rainier Avenue and the tracks of the Seattle & Rainier Beach Railway run diagonally southeast across the center of the image. At the extreme left the small white building is probably Hepler's Grocery. In the center are the buildings of Dudley and Sons, building contractor and fuel dealer. The street immediately to the left of Dudley and Sons is Dawson Street. At the right are parts of a street which later became 42nd Avenue.
NotesHandwritten label on image: Columbia City 1895. Car Barns lower right. Lk. Washington. Bellevue in distance NNE.

Handwritten on verso: Picture of Columbia City about 1895-1896.
Happy New Year.

Caption taken from RVHS records.
SubjectsStreet railroad tracks--Washington (State)--Seattle
Neighborhoods--Washington (State)--Seattle
PlacesUnited States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Columbia City (Seattle, Wash.)
Digital CollectionRainier Valley Historical Society Photograph Collection
Accession Number93.001.102
Ordering InformationTo order a copy of this photograph, please email Rvhsoffice@aol.com and mention the Accession Number.
RepositoryRainier Valley Historical Society, Seattle
Repository CollectionHall-Summers Collection
Physical Description1 photographic print: b&w; 8 x 10 in.
TypeImage
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned 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.
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