File:Seattle Post-Intelligencer's first building, Seattle, ca 1881 (MOHAI 2372).jpg

English:

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the descendant of two early newpapers. The Weekly Intelligencer began publishing in 1867 and became a daily newspaper in 1876. The Post was started in 1878 and merged with the Intelligencer in 1881. This photo of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's first building was taken on Mill Street around 1881. Mill Street is now called Yesler Way. The tower of Providence Hospital can be seen in the background.

Handwritten on mount: Post-Intelligencer continues as usual. Fire 1889. Caption by MOHAI staff.

• Subjects (LCTGM): Newspaper industry--Washington (State)--Seattle; Office buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle; Carriages & coaches--Washington (State)--Seattle; Horses--Washington (State)--Seattle; Seattle daily post-intelligencer

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The statement about this being the Post-Intelligencer's first building, and on Mill Street, is almost certainly wrong. Other sources (e.g. http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15015coll4/id/3188) say this was the home of Leigh and Lizzie Hunt on 4th Avenue and Columbia, where the P-I was temporarily based right after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. File:Fourth and Marion, 1914 (3290167769).gif shows this house (in rather dilapidated condition) in 1914, after it had been moved a block.