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Postal Telegraph Building

Washington Building

Union Block

Campbell Block (left), Knipe Building (right)

Colman Building, still extant 2019

Hotel Rainier Grand

Time: 9:32

This was the clock for Albert Hansen Jewelers, and it appears to say "Albert Hansen's Time"

sign: "Albert Hansen's Jewelry Factory"

sign: "Treen Shoe Co."

Inscribed over entrance: "Washington"

sign: "Lowman & Hanford, Stat'y & Printing Co's | Paragon Horn Annex | Come in and hear the wonderful horn. Room 120"

705 (address number; same on other side of entrance)

sign: "Dr. [illegible] Van Dyke"

signs in windows: "[Dr. Van] Dyke | [Ph]ysician. | [S]urgeon. | [Dr.] Van Dyke"

signs in windows appear to be for a "Dr. Putnam … Dentist"

signs in window for a "physician"; name not legible

sign on window: "[Do]ctor [F?]ische[r?]"

sign: "…estin Shoes | 707"

Gunst

sign extending from building: "Horseshoe", sign on building: "Horseshoe [Liquor] Co."

sign: "Cigars"

sign: "D^r. Herbein | Physician-Surgeon"

sign: "Dr. W.N. Powers. | Physician and Surgeon."

sign: "Real Estate & Loans"

sign: "Barto & Reed Collateral Bank"

sign: "Hatter"

sign: "711 | The Goldstein Hat Co."

sign: "Koleman & Rosenberg | 711"

sign: "Union Block"

sign: "713 | G. Beninghausen | 715"

sign: "713 |Dr. E.J. Brown's Dental Parlors. The Real Painless Dentists.

sign: "Full Set of Teeth $5.⁰⁰

sign "Teeth [illegible, possibly a decorative element Plates | Specialty"]

sign: "The McDougall & Southwick Co." This was for many years one of Seattle's leading department stores.

sign: "Wilcox"

sign: "Bank"

sign: "Northwest Trust & Safe Deposit Co."

sign on window: "Northwest Trust | Bank | Safe Deposit Co."

sign: "Law Offices | Byers & Byers"

sign: "Law Offices | Will W. Thompson"

sign: "West & Wheeler ^Inc. | Real Estate. Loans | [illegible] Insurance"

sign, mostly illegible. Appears to be another financial firm because the word "Bonds" is visible at top right.

sign: "Northwest Trust & Safe Deposit Co."

sign: "Pacific Meat Co."

Barber pole

sign: "The Seattle Electric Co."

sign: "Hotel Grand"

sign: "[illegible] Café Co."

sign: "L[illegible]as"

Partially visible sign, presumably "Hotel Rainier Grand"

sign: "Palace Sheets"

sign "[illlegible] Drug Co." Maybe something ending in "ared" or "aked"

sign: "Arlington". This (and the pointed roof to the right) would be the Arlington Hotel (Gilmore and Kirkman Building).

sign: "[HO]TEL"

sign: "[S]mith"

sign: "Dr. E.A. Zober[…] | Den[tist]"

sign: "Mens […] Store"

Sign: "D^r. Severan[c? …]"

sign, looks like it may say "Hotel Perry" or "Hotel Denny"

sign: "Dr. E. Mono…"

sign: "KOD[AK"]

Hotel sign, name not legible

sign: "Real Estate Auctioneers & Appr[aisers]"

sign: "Big combination … Now on sale here at ½ price"

sign for a dentist, not readily legible.

sign: "Sextant | [illegible…]ts | [illegible…]els"

appears to be just a sign in the form of a clock, rather than an actual clock.

sign, mostly illegible, includes the name "Brown", possibly "C.H. Brown"

sign: "[illegible] Diamon[d] Watche[s] Jewelr[y]"

sign: "Ten Years [… illegible]"