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Seattle waterfront, on a hand-colored panoramic postcard, Washington, ca. 1923
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| Title | Seattle waterfront, on a hand-colored panoramic postcard, Washington, ca. 1923 |
| Photographer | Nowell, Frank H., 1864-1950 |
| Date | ca. 1923 |
| Notes | Printed on image: Panorama view of Seattle Waterfront. Copyright Frank H. Nowell.
Printed on verso: Published by Lowman & Hanford Co., Seattle, Wash. [A description of the Port of Seattle immediately follows the publisher's credit].
PH Coll 900 |
| Contextual Notes | The Lowman & Hanford Stationery and Printing Company, later the Lowman & Hanford Company, was a printing company and retail stationery business operating in the Pioneer Square area of Seattle beginning around 1885. The firm advertised themselves as booksellers, stationers, printers and binders but also sold typewriters, sewing machines, pianos and organs. The new company added large presses and printed all the city's newspapers until their establishment was destroyed in the Great Fire of June 1889. The company returned to the "burnt district" after the fire, building both the Lowman & Hanford Printing and Binding building on Washington Street and the Lowman & Hanford building at 616 First Avenue. Judging by entries in city directories, the retail store appears to have gone out of business in the 1960s, with the printing company ceasing operations some years before. |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Seattle (Wash.); Waterfronts--Washington (State)--Seattle; Elliott Bay (Wash.); Buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle; Steamboats--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Order Number | PPC032 |
| 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 |
| Object Type | Postcard |
| Physical Description | 5 1/2 x 34 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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