Fifty Reasons Why Seattle is a Good Place for Investment Compliments of the Washington Hotel

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12mo. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs of Seattle and nearby sights. Bound in wraps with a black & white photograph of the Seattle waterfront on front cover and photograph of "A Portion of the Rotunda of The Washington [Hotel]" (sic) on rear cover. Pencil notation on cover regarding measurements of "paper on wall" on front cover; stains and age-toning; edge-wear, with a closed quarter-inch tear on last leaf and rear cover. Text by Will Parry, who was president of the Seattle City Council and a key figure in Seattle and Lake Washington Waterway Company, which advocated for and indeed implemented the initial stage of sluicing Beacon Hill to connect Elliott Bay with Lake Washington via the tideflats where the Sodo neighborhood now stands.Well-illustrated with excellent, uncommon photos that seem to depict Seattle of an earlier era: The view of downtown from Queen Anne, for instance, shows very few buildings at all. One photo depicts a rowing crew on the water, likely from the University of Washington; another the Steamer Cyrene, which ran along Madison, Madrona and Leschi Parks.Rare, with OCLC identifying only one copy, at the Washington State Library, Olympia. Not found in SMITH. N° de ref. del artículo 7661

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Título: Fifty Reasons Why Seattle is a Good Place ...
Editorial: (The Metropolitan Press), (Seattle)
Año de publicación: 1903
Encuadernación: Printed wrappers
Condición: Good
Edición: First edition.