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The Territorial University, Central School and King County Courthouse can be seen in the distance. Transcribed from back of photograph: "Beautiful, enterprising, prosperous Seattle is the queen city of the Puget Sound basin, and the largest city in Washington. It is charmingly situated between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington - the former salt water, the later fresh. The city thus has two water-fronts, being spread out over the hills between the lake and the bay. Elliott Bay, being an arm of Puget Sound communicates with the Pacific, and gives the city a vast trade by great ocean steamers running to China and Japan. Lake Union and Green Lake are within the city limits. The whole city was destroyed by fire in 1889, the entire business portion being consumed except one brick building. But like Chicago, it rose from its ashes better and stronger and more enterprising than before. Its manufacturing and commercial interests, and its shipping and ship-building are already large and are increasing constantly. As a railway centre Seattle claims the first place on the Pacific Coast. The United States battleship Nebraska and the torpedo-boat Rowan were built at the great shipbuilding plant of the Moran Brothers' Company at Seattle. The population is now about 100,000 - a healthy, happy hopeful people."</div>
This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Seattle_Public_Library" class="extiw" title="w:en:Seattle Public Library"><span title="public library system serving Seattle, Washington">Seattle Public Library</span></a> as part of a cooperation project. The donation was facilitated by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Public_Library_of_America" class="extiw" title="w:Digital Public Library of America">Digital Public Library of America</a>, via its partner Northwest Digital Heritage.<span style="text-align:left">
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15015coll4/id/4338">Record in source catalog</a></li>
<li>DPLA identifier: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dp.la/item/214999868610d6be9db3263b696b13c2">214999868610d6be9db3263b696b13c2</a></li>
<li>Seattle Public Library identifier: spl_shp_41055</li></ul></span>