<p>Caption on image: Seattle, today and yesterday. Today - Elliott Bay, Seattle's great natural harbor. The Olympic Mountains in the distance. Photo by F. H. Nowell. Yesterday - The Harbor and the city in 1888. Photo by Curtis and Miller.
</p><p>On verso of image: Published by Lowman and Hanford Co., Seattle. Made in U. S. A.
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Filed in: Seattle--Panoramas<p class="mw-empty-elt"></p>
<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Then &amp; now comparisons; Piers &amp; wharves--Washington (State)--Seattle</li>
<li>Subjects (LCSH): Elliott Bay (Wash.); Waterfronts--Washington (State)--Seattle; West Seattle (Seattle, Wash.); Dwellings--Washington (State)--Seattle; Buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle; Ships--Washington (State)--Seattle; Olympic Mountains (Wash.); Seattle (Wash.)--Buildings, structures, etc.</li></ul><hr><p>Upper image appears to be photographed from the tower of King Street Station.
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahel_Curtis" class="extiw" title="w:Asahel Curtis">[Asahel] Curtis</a> and [Walter] Miller doubtless owned rights to the lower image, but were not the photographers of it. Asahel Curtis was a child in 1888. Image appears to be <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle,_1888_(CURTIS_233).jpeg" title="File:Seattle, 1888 (CURTIS 233).jpeg">File:Seattle, 1888 (CURTIS 233).jpeg</a>
<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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circa between 1886 and 1917 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1917-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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