<p>Just over two years after Seattle's Great Fire, Seattle's July 4, 1891 parade vehicles gathered at the Northern Pacific Railroad's waterfront warehouses. Local businesses, including a bank and a boot store, sponsored some of the carriages. Newsboys from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ride in the large flag-draped vehicle to the lower left. Photographer Frank LaRoche's wagon is in the upper center.
A portion of the Elliott Bay tidelands can be seen in the upper right of the image. The long, wood-framed Northern Pacific warehouses shown here were located at the foot of Third (now S. Third) Avenue, where it intersects with Lane Street. </p>
<p>Handwritten on mount: July 4, 1891

Signs in image: W. W. Buchanan &amp; Sons; S. T. Co.; Post-Intelligencer News Boys; Emmanuel Myer, Prop.; La Roche, Photographer; P. V. Styer &amp; Bros. Gas and Electric Furnitures; The Red Front Clothing House; Northern Pacific Railroad Co.</p>
<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Fourth of July celebrations; Northern Pacific Railroad Company; Parades &amp; processions--Washington (State)--Seattle; Piers &amp; wharves--Washington (State)--Seattle</li></ul><hr>
This is looking toward Beacon Hill. All of this area is long since filled in; Lane Street no longer makes it this far west; this would now be roughly the northeast corner of the football stadium, Lumen Field.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Frank_La_Roche" class="extiw" title="w:en:Frank La Roche"><span title="American photographer, 1853-1934">Frank La Roche</span></a>
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Taken on 4 July 1891
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