Seattle from New Washington Hotel, 1929 – Vintage Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Seattle from New Washington Hotel, 1929 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: View from the New Washington Hotel, a portion of greater Seattle
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Seattle from New Washington Hotel, 1929
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Seattle in 1929 was a city of roughly 365,000 people, still shaped by its lumber mills, shipping trade with Alaska and the Orient, and the Port of Seattle on Elliott Bay. The city had only recently recovered from the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 and rebuilt on higher ground; by the late 1920s it was ready to assert itself as a regional center, and the Pacific Northwest's fortunes rode on logging, fishing, and Boeing's early aircraft work just across the Lake Washington corridor. The view from the New Washington Hotel looks out over the downtown streets toward the waterfront, where ferries, freight docks, and the rail yards of the period tied the city to the Northern Pacific and Great Northern lines. A few months after this photograph, the stock market crash of October 1929 would begin to cut into the city's shipping and timber earnings.
| Created / published | 1929 |
|---|---|
| Creator | pierson photo co. (seattle, wash.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Washington |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 974 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View from the New Washington Hotel, a portion of greater Seattle |
| Reference | WA 1929a Seattle from New Washington Hotel |
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