<div class="description">
<p>Transcribed from photograph: "Waterfront. About 1878. Wharves at foot of King St. and Weller St. Academy of the Holy Names at center background."
</p>
<hr>
As with <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arrival_of_the_first_log_shipment_via_the_Columbia_%26_Puget_Sound_Railroad,_Seattle,_1880_(MOHAI_9574).jpg" title="File:Arrival of the first log shipment via the Columbia &amp; Puget Sound Railroad, Seattle, 1880 (MOHAI 9574).jpg">File:Arrival of the first log shipment via the Columbia &amp; Puget Sound Railroad, Seattle, 1880 (MOHAI 9574).jpg</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_logs_on_Columbia_and_Puget_Sound_Railroad,_1880_-_DPLA_-_d1326f382a2eb090fde6076f552b3a74.jpg" title="File:First logs on Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad, 1880 - DPLA - d1326f382a2eb090fde6076f552b3a74.jpg">File:First logs on Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad, 1880 - DPLA - d1326f382a2eb090fde6076f552b3a74.jpg</a>, the claim that is the Academy of the Holy Names doesn't site easily with the ostensible date. The Academy of Holy Names at Seventh Avenue and Jackson Street was built starting in 1882 and opened in 1884. There was an earlier Academy of Holy Names at Second and Seneca 1880-1884, but it seems unlikely it would have been this similar-looking a building.</div>
1878?
This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Seattle_Public_Library" class="extiw" title="w:en:Seattle Public Library"><span title="public library system serving Seattle, Washington">Seattle Public Library</span></a> as part of a cooperation project. The donation was facilitated by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Public_Library_of_America" class="extiw" title="w:Digital Public Library of America">Digital Public Library of America</a>, via its partner Northwest Digital HeritageSeventh Avenue and Jackson Street.<span style="text-align:left">
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15015coll4/id/1580">Record in source catalog</a></li>
<li>DPLA identifier: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dp.la/item/df488dd99441776e01f68195fe5d6a6c">df488dd99441776e01f68195fe5d6a6c</a></li>
<li>Seattle Public Library identifier: spl_shp_7323</li></ul></span>