<p>This photo predates August of 1914, and should be 1913. You may be able to verify this through buildings, but I was looking at the clocks on 2nd Avenue. I am looking at the clocks. There is a clock with a dark face at 1010 2nd, which is on the right side of the street near a streetcar and adjacent to a "United Cigars" sign. This clock belonged to L. L. Moore, who shut down and liquidated in 1913. Albert Hansen moved here in 1914, and put a different clock in its place. You can see that clock in an 8/1914 photo at the Seattle Municipal Archives #43364. So this could be after the metal superstructure was put up in 1913, and could possibly be in 1914 but certainly is before August. (Note per researcher 1/2013)
</p><p>Shows the Hoge Building on 2nd and Cherry st.
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On verso of image: North on Second Avenue from Smith Tower, 1920s ?<p class="mw-empty-elt"></p>
<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Aerial views; Piers &amp; wharves--Washington (State)--Seattle</li>
<li>Subjects (LCSH): Second Avenue (Seattle, Wash.); Central business districts--Washington (State)--Seattle; Waterfronts--Washington (State)--Seattle; Sailing ships--Washington (State)--Seattle</li></ul><hr>
This would be a view from the Smith Tower while it was still under construction. According to <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1st_and_2nd_Aves,_looking_north_from_Yesler_Way_in_1889_and_1913_(SEATTLE_1783).jpg" title="File:1st and 2nd Aves, looking north from Yesler Way in 1889 and 1913 (SEATTLE 1783).jpg">a postcard clearly based on this photograph</a>, the picture is indeed 1913 and was taken by Frank H. Nowell. That makes sense, because Nowell took a series of photos documenting the construction of the Smith Tower.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Frank_Hamilton_Nowell" class="extiw" title="w:en:Frank Hamilton Nowell"><span title="American photographer and postcard publisher">Frank H. Nowell</span></a>
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