File:Manning & Co. in Pike Place Market, ca. 1907 - DPLA - 9c87a74e7fab25918446d1e83dd70aed (page 1).jpg

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Manning & Co. in Pike Place Market, ca. 1907 (

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Manning & Co. in Pike Place Market, ca. 1907

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Transcribed from postcard: "Seattle Pike Place Market. Storefront demolished 1957, replaced by Lowell's Restaurant." Seattle's Pike Place Market first opened in 1907 with humble beginnings as a group of farmers' carts at 1st and Pike. In the early 1900's, thousands of farmers, including many Italian, German, Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos supplied produce to the city from far and wide. The public market at Pike Place was revolutionary in changing the previous system requiring farmers to sell their produce through a middleman who then charged shoppers greatly inflated prices. The market was so popular on its first day that farmers could not meet the demands of the crowds of gathered shoppers and quickly sold out. Frank Goodwin, a local developer, saw an opportunity in the popularity of the market and soon began building more permanent structures on the land surrounding the location. He oversaw the construction of the main arcade and more buildings such as the Sanitary Market, the Economy Market, the Corner Market and the Municipal Market Building rapidly followed as more took interest in being a part of the market.

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circa 1907

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Seattle Public Library

	Location	Seattle , United States of America
	Coordinates	47° 36′ 24″ N, 122° 19′ 58″ W
	Established	1890
	Website	www.spl.org
	Authority file	: Q7442157 VIAF: 147059007 ISNI: 0000000107435179 LCCN: n50059684 NRHP: 82004253 GND: 4841883-3 WorldCat

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This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by Seattle Public Library as part of a cooperation project. The donation was facilitated by the Digital Public Library of America, via its partner Northwest Digital Heritage.

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DPLA identifier: 9c87a74e7fab25918446d1e83dd70aed
Seattle Public Library identifier: spl_pc_21003

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