Looking south on 1st Ave. from Spring St. Minneapolis Art Studio (photo studio) at right.
<hr><p>There seems to be some question of the authorship of this photo. 
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<ul><li>Seattle Public Library <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15015coll4/id/1432">attributes it to Theodore E. Peiser</a>.</li>
<li>Museum of History and Industry <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/imlsmohai/id/9284">gives no attribution</a></li>
<li>University of Washington Library, in its Asahel Curtis Collection <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/curtis/id/168">attributes a cropped version to * Asahel Curtis</a>; he is probably responsible for printing that crop, but not for the original photo, taken when he was about 15 years old.</li>
<li>University of Washington Library, in its Boyd and Braas Collection, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/boydBraas/id/17">attributes it to William F. Boyd</a>.</li></ul>
The Boyd and Peiser attributions are both plausible.
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Boyd and Braas</div>
Taken on 6 June 1889
<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.sos.wa.gov/legacy/washington-1889/assets/sea-of-fire/seattle-fire-1200.jpg">https://www.sos.wa.gov/legacy/washington-1889/assets/sea-of-fire/seattle-fire-1200.jpg</a>; see also <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.sos.wa.gov/legacy/washington-1889/sea-of-fire.aspx">https://www.sos.wa.gov/legacy/washington-1889/sea-of-fire.aspx</a>