File:Chinese dragon, Seattle, c. 1909.jpg
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| English: Parade on 5th Ave. featuring Chinese dragon, 1909
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English: Parade on 5th Ave. featuring Chinese dragon, 1909 |
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English: Parade perhaps in celebration of China Day for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
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Subjects (LCSH): Parades--Washington (State)--Seattle Hotel Shirley--Washington (State)--Seattle Fifth Avenue (Seattle, Wash.) Central business districts--Washington (State)--Seattle Digital Collection: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Collection http://content.lib.washington.edu/aypweb/index.html Item Number: SEA1633 Persistent URL: http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/seattle,1445 University of Washington Libraries. Digital Collections [1] Parade on Fifth Avenue, Seattle, Washington, featuring Chinese dragon, ca. 1909, possibly in celebration of China Day for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. According to Paul Dorpat, the dragon's tail is crossing Pine Street; the image is looking roughly southeast. Compare nearly identical view from 1898. |
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| Depicted place | Seattle | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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circa 1909 date QS:P571,+1909-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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English: Seattle Photographs Parade on 5th Ave. featuring Chinese dragon
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| Order Number InfoField | SEA1633 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Annotations InfoField | This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons |
sign: "Hotel Shirley"
The former Seattle Traction Co. car barn, built in the early 1890s, here in the process of being converted to retail use as the Westlake Public Market. It would be replaced by the Frederick & Nelson store in 1925.
The Hotel Svea (renamed the Shirley by 1909), built in 1904 and still extant in 2021. The shorter building has been heavily altered.
Spire of the Swedish M.E. Church, built in the mid 1880s. Demolished 1914 for the O'Shea Building.
5th & Pine St. Livery, Feed & Sales stable built early 1890s, replaced by the current O'Shea Building in 1914.
sign: "Hotel Shirley"
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47°36'8"N, 122°20'12"W
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| current | 04:35, 8 August 2010 | 768 × 570 (74 KB) | wikimediacommons>File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske) | {{Information |Description=Parade on 5th Ave. featuring Chinese dragon, ca. 1909 '''Photographer:''' Unknown '''Subjects (LCSH):''' Parades--Washington (State)--Seattle Hotel Shirley--Washington (State)--Seattle Fifth Avenue (Seattle, Wash.) Central bus |
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