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<p>Transcribed from postcard: "First Avenue South, Showing Seattle's Famous Tide Lands." The Lowman Building at 1st Ave. and Cherry St. appears in white on the left. The Colman Block and Postal Telegraph Buildings appear at the far right.
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This appears to be an almost completely fictional image. Although there are a few real buildings in it, they are not even in proper positional relation to one another.</div>
circa 1907 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1907-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16118coll3/id/2386">Record in source catalog</a></li>
<li>DPLA identifier: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dp.la/item/a8c1dfe9ba274232ef05453d0f68386b">a8c1dfe9ba274232ef05453d0f68386b</a></li>
<li>Seattle Public Library identifier: spl_pc_47012</li></ul></span>