<p>The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the descendant of two early newpapers. The Weekly Intelligencer began publishing in 1867 and became a daily newspaper in 1876. The Post was started in 1878 and merged with the Intellligencer in 1881.
This photo of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's first building was taken on Mill Street around 1881. Mill Street is now called Yesler Way. The tower of Providence Hospital can be seen in the background.</p>
<p>Original copy negative.

Original photograph: ca. 1881. Copied after 1902 by Webster &amp; Stevens</p>
<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Newspaper industry; Office buildings</li></ul><hr>
The statement about this being the Post-Intelligencer's first building, and on Mill Street, is almost certainly wrong. Other sources (e.g. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15015coll4/id/3188">http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15015coll4/id/3188</a>) say this was the home of Leigh and Lizzie Hunt on 4th Avenue and Columbia, where the P-I was temporarily based right after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fourth_and_Marion,_1914_(3290167769).gif" title="File:Fourth and Marion, 1914 (3290167769).gif">File:Fourth and Marion, 1914 (3290167769).gif</a> shows this house  (in rather dilapidated condition) in 1914, after it had been moved a block.
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unknown, copied by Webster &amp; Stevens</div>
circa 1881 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1881-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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