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Old Forestry Building being demolished, University of Washington, 1930
Old Forestry Building being demolished, University of Washington, 1930
TitleOld Forestry Building being demolished, University of Washington, 1930
PhotographerUnknown
Date1930
NotesOriginally built in 1908 as the Forestry Building for the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition. The general construction both inside and outside was of natural fir trees with the bark left on and exposed. The building was wrecked in 1930.

Handwritten on verso of companion image: This lot shows the world famous structure in various stages of demolition.

The building had to be demolished because it was being destroyed by beetles.

PH Coll 778.32
Subjects (LCTGM)Demolition--Washington (State)--Seattle
Log buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle
Universities & colleges--Washington (State)--Seattle
Subjects (LCSH)Forestry Building (Seattle, Wash.)
University of Washington--Buildings
College buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle
Location DepictedUnited States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Digital CollectionUniversity of Washington Campus Photographs
Order NumberUWC0159
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Negative NumberUW19803z
RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Repository CollectionPost AYPE Building Collection. PH Coll 778
Object TypePhotograph: b&w; 5 x 7 in.
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color or 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 or 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3.
Image File NameSC000430.tif
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