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Chinese Room interior, L. C. Smith Building, ca. 1914
Chinese Room interior, L. C. Smith Building, ca. 1914
TitleChinese Room interior, L. C. Smith Building, ca. 1914
PhotographerUnknown
Dateca. 1914
NotesCaption on image: Chinese Room, the observatory of the L. C. Smith Building, Seattle, Wash.

On verso of image: In observation tower is the Chinese Temple, cost $30, 000 to embelish. Walls and ceilings of hand carved teak wood are inset with 776 semi-porcelain discs, representing historic tablets from renowned Chinese Temples. Also 40 bronze lanterns and gorgeous Oriental furniture.

Filed in: Seattle--Buildings and Stores
Subjects (LCTGM)Interior decoration--Washington (State)--Seattle; Interiors--Washington (State)--Seattle; Postcards
Subjects (LCSH)Smith Tower (Seattle, Wash.)
Location DepictedUnited States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Digital CollectionSeattle Photograph Collection
Order NumberSEA1782
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RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Repository CollectionSeattle Postcard Collection. PH Coll 798
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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