<p>Lewis and Wiley were the hydraulic contractors.
Caption on image: Lewis and Wiley Inc. Dearborn St. regrade. 6th and Dearborn looking E. Sept. 18 -09. #T 16252</p>
<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Stores &amp; shops--Washington (State)--Seattle; Apartment houses--Washington (State)--Seattle</li>
<li>Subjects (LCSH): Dearborn Street (Seattle, Wash.); International District (Seattle, Wash.); Bridges--Washington (State)--Seattle; Grading (Earthwork)--Washington (State)--Seattle</li></ul><hr><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle_-_Street_work_at_7th_%26_Dearborn,_1927_(33189144472).jpg" class="image"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Seattle_-_Street_work_at_7th_%26_Dearborn%2C_1927_%2833189144472%29.jpg/220px-Seattle_-_Street_work_at_7th_%26_Dearborn%2C_1927_%2833189144472%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Seattle_-_Street_work_at_7th_%26_Dearborn%2C_1927_%2833189144472%29.jpg/330px-Seattle_-_Street_work_at_7th_%26_Dearborn%2C_1927_%2833189144472%29.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Seattle_-_Street_work_at_7th_%26_Dearborn%2C_1927_%2833189144472%29.jpg/440px-Seattle_-_Street_work_at_7th_%26_Dearborn%2C_1927_%2833189144472%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="796"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle_-_Street_work_at_7th_%26_Dearborn,_1927_(33189144472).jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Here's a post-regrade photo from about one block east in 1927.</div></div></div>
This has to be a pre-regrade photo: undeveloped mudflats at Sixth Avenue, Hill rising at about Ninth or Tenth Avenue (which would eventually be flattened, with a bridge going across from 12th (at the north end) to 14th (at the south) an altitude roughly comparable to the hill shown here.
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Taken on 18 September 1909
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