File:Seattle and the Orient 33.jpg

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Page 33 of brochure Seattle and the Orient. This page includes text plus a photo captioned "Store of Polson Implement Hardware Co." Top row of signs on the store says (from left to right):

  • [CO]FFEE ROASTERS / [M]ANUFACTURERS OF / [?]CES EXTRACTS.
  • FARM MACHINERY
  • PA[?]

Next row says:

  • FARM WAGONS
  • AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS
  • BUGGIES / SPRING WAGONS, ETC

Bottom row says Signs on awnings say:

  • FARM MACHINERY (again)
  • PUMPS & WINDMILLS
Text on the previous page indicates that the building was at 806 and 808 Western Avenue (which would be between Columbia and Marion Streets).
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p. 33 of Seattle and the Orient (more properly, Seattle …and the… Orient), a 1900 "souvenir" pamphlet edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen and published by The Times Printing Company (that is, the Seattle Times).

Scanned at 300 dpi; images cleaned up using Picture Publisher's "remove pattern" feature.
Author Book edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen. At the bottom of page 47 is a credit "Francis Rotch"; it's not clear where the portion of text written by Rotch begins. Photo is uncredited.
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Other versions Image:Seattle and the Orient 29.jpg is the whole page; Image:Seattle - Polson-Wilton - 1900.jpg is just the picture.

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