<p>Caption on image: Seattle today and yesterday. Today: A bird's eye view over part of the business district taken from Third Ave. and Pine St., Seattle. Yesterday: As it looked in 1882.
</p><p>On verso of image: Published by Lowman and Hanford Co., Seattle. Made in U. S. A.
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Looking southeast<p class="mw-empty-elt"></p>
<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Then &amp; now comparisons; Panoramic views</li>
<li>Subjects (LCSH): Third Avenue (Seattle, Wash.); Pine Street (Seattle, Wash.); Central business districts--Washington (State)--Seattle; Dwellings--Washington (State)--Seattle; Buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle; Seattle (Wash.)--Buildings, structures, etc.</li></ul><hr><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Denny_Hill,_Seattle_(CURTIS_1087).jpeg" class="image"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Denny_Hill%2C_Seattle_%28CURTIS_1087%29.jpeg/220px-Denny_Hill%2C_Seattle_%28CURTIS_1087%29.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="117" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Denny_Hill%2C_Seattle_%28CURTIS_1087%29.jpeg/330px-Denny_Hill%2C_Seattle_%28CURTIS_1087%29.jpeg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Denny_Hill%2C_Seattle_%28CURTIS_1087%29.jpeg/440px-Denny_Hill%2C_Seattle_%28CURTIS_1087%29.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="408"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Denny_Hill,_Seattle_(CURTIS_1087).jpeg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The lower image appears to be based on this photo by Carleton E. Watkins, the copyright of which was indeed owned by Asahel Curtis at the time of this postcard.</div></div></div>
The upper image, at least, is not really <i>from</i> Third and Pine: Third and Pine is the intersection at left foreground.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Carleton_Watkins" class="extiw" title="w:en:Carleton Watkins"><span title="American photographer">Carleton Watkins</span></a>
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circa between 1882 and 1914 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1882-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1914-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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