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Transcribed from photograph: "Waterfront. 1900. Looking Northeast from the foot of Cherry St. Ships: 1. City of Seattle. 2. George W. Elder. 3. Umatilla."</div>
<p>1900 
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<hr><p>Date might be a bit earlier than 1900 because Pier A still says "Oregon Improvement Co." If that is correct, then some other images are mis-dated.
</p><p>Hard to say where this was taken from; seems too far northwest to be the King Street Coal Wharf, might have been aboard a ship but it's rather high up for that.
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Seattle Public Library attributes this to Asahel Curtis (presumably based on his mark on the photo) but at <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15015coll4/id/1392">http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15015coll4/id/1392</a> they have the same photo, differently cropped, with Boyd &amp; Braas's mark and attributed to them. It is much more likely that Asahel Curtis would have reprinted a Boyd &amp; Braas photo than vice versa.
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15015coll4/id/2222">Record in source catalog</a></li>
<li>DPLA identifier: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dp.la/item/110c9568d7031f702d9e2179ef0946f3">110c9568d7031f702d9e2179ef0946f3</a></li>
<li>Seattle Public Library identifier: spl_shp_15036</li></ul></span>