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L.C. Smith Tower, ca. 1914
L.C. Smith Tower, ca. 1914
TitleL.C. Smith Tower, ca. 1914
PhotographerUnknown
Dateca. 1914
NotesCaption on image: Second Avenue and the L.C. Smith Building, Seattle.

Printed on verso: Eight elevators - two serving the tower. Six hundred offices. Six stores. Telegraph office on first floor. Barber shop. Restaurant. Buffet in basement. Thirty-fifth floor furnished in Washington fir used as an observatory. Exterior Washington granite for first two floors, above white glazed terracotta. Cost $1, 500, 000.
Subjects (LCTGM)Street railroads--Washington (State)--Seattle
Subjects (LCSH)Smith Tower (Seattle, Wash.); Office buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle; Skyscrapers--Washington (State)--Seattle; Yesler Way (Seattle, Wash.); Second Avenue (Seattle, Wash.); Central business districts--Washington (State)--Seattle
Location DepictedUnited States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Digital CollectionSeattle Photograph Collection
Order NumberSEA3048
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RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Repository CollectionSeattle Collection
Object TypePostcard
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from a postcard at 600 dpi, saved in TIFF format, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2009
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