<p>On a sunny summer afternoon in 1882, a person looking south from Seattle's Denny Hill would have had this view. Seattle was still a frontier city of wood frame houses on the recently cleared hillsides above Elliott Bay. The steamers that landed at Yesler's Wharf (right center) were the city's lifeline to the rest of the United States and to Canada.</p>
<p>Original copy negative.</p>
<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Cities &amp; towns; Houses; Waterfronts</li></ul>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Theodore_Peiser" class="extiw" title="w:en:Theodore Peiser"><span title="American Photographer">Theodore E. Peiser</span></a>
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1882<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1882-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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