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Columbia Hotel addition under construction, Columbia City, 1904
Columbia Hotel addition under construction, Columbia City, 1904
TitleColumbia Hotel addition under construction, Columbia City, 1904
PhotographerPinney
Date1904
CaptionThe Columbia Hotel is being doubled in size by addition of a wing to the south side. The brick veneer front and the mansard roof were carefully duplicated to preserve the appearance of the original building. A pig pen is at the back of the building. Swill for the pigs was carried from the saloons at Renton in half hogs-heads on streetcar platforms. Columbia City prohibited saloons. At Ferdinand Street streetcars paused while roustabouts unloaded the pig food. The spectators all seemed to be schoolchildren. The mud on the planks on Rainier Avenue suggest it was a typical, drizzly Seattle morning.
NotesCaption on mount: Pinney.

Handwritten label on mount: Columbia Hotel 1904.

Handwritten on verso: Columbia Hotel. SE corner of Ferdinand St & Ra Ave. First section built in 1892, 2nd in 1904.

Caption taken from RVHS records.
SubjectsHotels--Washington (State)--Seattle
Building construction--Washington (State)--Seattle
PlacesUnited States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Columbia City (Seattle, Wash.)
Digital CollectionRainier Valley Historical Society Photograph Collection
Accession Number93.001.091
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; 10 3/4 x 13 3/4 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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