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Looking north across Portage Bay toward the grounds of the Alaska Pacific Yukon Exposition, viewed from from Capitol Hill, Seattle, Washington, 1909
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| Title | Looking north across Portage Bay toward the grounds of the Alaska Pacific Yukon Exposition, viewed from from Capitol Hill, Seattle, Washington, 1909 |
| Photographer | Nowell, Frank H., 1864-1950 |
| Date | 1909 |
| Notes | Printed on image: x2005
Affixed to verso is a typewritten information sheet detailing the location of buildings, streets, and geographic landmarks depicted in photograph. It reads as follows: Brooklyn and the University District as seen from the northern reaches of the Capitol Hill-North Broadway area. The street being graded in the left foreground is Boyer Avenue as it turns onto Fuhrman Avenue. You are looking directly north up 12th Avenue Northeast. Most of the fairground is visible. The lower end of the Pay Streak with the southerly central stand or booth appears between the two tallest trees at the right of the picture. Note the two tall flagpoles in front of the main gate on 15th Avenue Northeast, which is just southwest of Meany Hall. This picture is extended to the east and south east. The waterfront starts with the government life saving station which was on Portage Bay, approximately a city block east of the foot of the Pay Streak. Today the location of the life saving station would be back of the Medical College. You then see the east side of Portage Bay where we now have the Ship Canal, the Seattle Yacht Club, and the lower Montlake District. The first canal across the Montlake District, built to carry logs from Lake Washington into Lake Union shows at extreme right. This canal was some three or four blocks south of the present canal. In the far distance is the Laurelhurst District, for many years the home of the Seattle Golf and Country Club before it moved to its present location north of the city overlooking Puget Sound.
Handwritten on verso: Nowell x2002 and Nowell x2005
PH Coll 727.649b-c |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Portage Bay (Wash.); Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle, Wash.)--Buildings; Exhibition buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle; Seattle (Wash.) |
| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Panoramic Photographs
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| Order Number | PPC042 |
| Ordering Information | Restrictions apply to the ordering of this image. Please contact photos@u.washington.edu for more information. |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Frank H. Nowell Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition Photographs. PH Coll 727 |
| Object Type | Panoramic photograph |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin, b&w;7 1/4 x 24 3/4 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photograph at 400 dpi in TIFF format using a Graphtec CSX300-09, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2010. |
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