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<p>Transcribed from photograph: "Fire. June 6, 1889. Reconstruction. City of tents. Looking South from Second Ave. and Columbia St."
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<hr><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bohemian_(O%27Brien_and_Mullen,_props),_Seattle,_ca_1902_(CURTIS_2048).jpeg" class="image"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Bohemian_%28O%27Brien_and_Mullen%2C_props%29%2C_Seattle%2C_ca_1902_%28CURTIS_2048%29.jpeg/220px-Bohemian_%28O%27Brien_and_Mullen%2C_props%29%2C_Seattle%2C_ca_1902_%28CURTIS_2048%29.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Bohemian_%28O%27Brien_and_Mullen%2C_props%29%2C_Seattle%2C_ca_1902_%28CURTIS_2048%29.jpeg/330px-Bohemian_%28O%27Brien_and_Mullen%2C_props%29%2C_Seattle%2C_ca_1902_%28CURTIS_2048%29.jpeg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Bohemian_%28O%27Brien_and_Mullen%2C_props%29%2C_Seattle%2C_ca_1902_%28CURTIS_2048%29.jpeg/440px-Bohemian_%28O%27Brien_and_Mullen%2C_props%29%2C_Seattle%2C_ca_1902_%28CURTIS_2048%29.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="3974" data-file-height="2501"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bohemian_(O%27Brien_and_Mullen,_props),_Seattle,_ca_1902_(CURTIS_2048).jpeg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The buildings in the foreground were torn down to build the Alaska Building, completed 1904. Here they are toward the end of their existence.</div></div></div>
June 6, 1889 isn't the date of the photo, it's the date of the Great Seattle Fire. This is clearly weeks afterward.</div>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15015coll4/id/1758">Record in source catalog</a></li>
<li>DPLA identifier: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dp.la/item/62aa12754675db1ef9de6c1bd15d29b0">62aa12754675db1ef9de6c1bd15d29b0</a></li>
<li>Seattle Public Library identifier: spl_shp_14613</li></ul></span>