File:Northern Pacific Railroad depot, ca 1905 (MOHAI 5971).jpg
Northern_Pacific_Railroad_depot,_ca_1905_(MOHAI_5971).jpg (700 × 564 pixels, file size: 48 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
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[edit]English: Northern Pacific Railroad depot, ca. 1905 ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Photographer |
Webster & Stevens |
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Title |
English: Northern Pacific Railroad depot, ca. 1905 |
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Description |
English: Between 1892 and 1906, the Northern Pacific Railroad had a depot on Railroad Avenue at Columbia Street. Many people who were headed to the northern gold fields arrived by train at this Seattle railroad station. In 1906, the railroad moved its operations to the new King Street Station.
This photo, probably taken sometime between 1904 and 1906, shows the low Northern Pacific depot with its long flat roof. The large building with the smokestack generated electricity for the interurban railroad that ran between Seattle and Tacoma. It still generates steam to heat nearby buildings in the downtown area.
At some time after MOHAI wrote their caption, Seattle Steam Company shut down Old Post Station as a steam-generating facility, but the building is still there as of 2022. |
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Depicted place |
English: Railroad Avenue (Seattle, Wash." Seattle (Wash.) |
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Date |
circa 1905 date QS:P571,+1905-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Medium |
English: 1 glass negative: b&w |
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Dimensions |
height: 8 in (20.3 cm); width: 10 in (25.4 cm) dimensions QS:P2048,8U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,10U218593 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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Source |
English: Museum of History and Industry |
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Credit Line InfoField | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
Annotations InfoField | This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons |
MacDougall & Southwick department store, southeast corner of First and Columbia in the Postal Telegraph Building. This had earlier been the location of Toklas & Singerman's San Francisco store. MacDougall & Southwick moved in 1908 to the southeast corner of Second and Pike and remained there until 1964. This building was demolished in the 1950s or 1960s; the site is now a multi-story parking lot.
Schwabacher's Hardware Company. L-shaped building around the Yesler Building at the southwest corner of First and Yesler. Building still extant 2022.
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- Photographs by Webster & Stevens
- Old Post Station, Seattle Steam Company
- Train stations in Seattle
- Demolished train stations in the United States
- Former Northern Pacific Railway stations
- Railroad Avenue, Seattle
- Pioneer Square, Seattle, Washington
- Central Waterfront, Seattle, Washington
- 1905 in Seattle
- Black and white photographs of Seattle