Looking north. San Francisco Store (Toklas and Singerman, props.) and Squire's Opera House on the right; the New England Hotel, Clore &amp; Wunder (furniture), miner's supplies, and beer hall on the left. Waddell &amp; Miles hardware store in distance, at intersection of 1st Ave. S. and Yesler Way.
<p>Original photograph by Peterson and Bros. PH Coll 284.12a ; copied by Theodore Peiser.
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<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Streets--Washington (State)--Seattle; Business districts--Washington (State)--Seattle; Opera houses--Washington (State)--Seattle; Hotels--Washington (State)--Seattle</li>
<li>Subjects (LCSH): First Avenue (Seattle, Wash.); Squire's Opera House (Seattle, Wash.); New England Hotel (Seattle, Wash.)</li></ul><hr><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle%27s_downtown_before_the_Great_Fire,_Seattle,_1883_(MOHAI_3542).jpg" title="File:Seattle's downtown before the Great Fire, Seattle, 1883 (MOHAI 3542).jpg">File:Seattle's downtown before the Great Fire, Seattle, 1883 (MOHAI 3542).jpg</a> says 1883, sourced from <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/imlsmohai/id/3542">http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/imlsmohai/id/3542</a>; <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1st_Ave._north_from_Main_St.,_1879_-_DPLA_-_03f3205e75a52e80b0e04a8796235462.jpg" title="File:1st Ave. north from Main St., 1879 - DPLA - 03f3205e75a52e80b0e04a8796235462.jpg">File:1st Ave. north from Main St., 1879 - DPLA - 03f3205e75a52e80b0e04a8796235462.jpg</a> says 1879, sourced from Seattle Public Library.
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Peterson &amp; Brothers</div>
circa 1880 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>, probably 1883
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://content.lib.washington.edu/curtisweb/index.html">Asahel Curtis Photo Company Photographs</a>