File:Fire of June 6, 1889, looking south on 1st Ave from Spring St, about one-half hour after the fire started, Seattle, Washington (BOYD+BRAAS 17).jpg

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English: Fire of June 6, 1889, looking south on 1st Ave. from Spring St., about one-half hour after the fire started, Seattle, Washington.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
William F. Boyd  (1848–)  wikidata:Q62126708
 
Description American photographer
Date of birth 5 September 1848 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Ohio
Work period 1893 Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q62126708
Title
English: Fire of June 6, 1889, looking south on 1st Ave. from Spring St., about one-half hour after the fire started, Seattle, Washington.
Description
English:

Shows Frye's Opera House just catching fire. Minneapolis Art Studio (photo studio) at right.

On mount: Front Street. Opera House burning. The big fire.

PH Coll 684.3

Ph Coll 34.2

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Fires--Washington (State)--Seattle; Opera houses--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Subjects (LCSH): Seattle (Wash.)--Fire, 1889; Frye's Opera House(Seattle, Wash.); Minneapolis Art Studio (Seattle, Wash.); First Avenue (Seattle, Wash.)

There seems to be some question of the authorship of this photo.

The Boyd and Peiser attributions are both plausible.
Depicted place Seattle
Date Taken on 6 June 1889
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
17
Source
English: Boyd and Braas Photographs of Seattle and Washington State
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(Reusing this file)
Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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File:Seattle fire of June 6, 1889, about one-half hour after the fire started (CURTIS 168).jpeg
File:Seattle fire of June 6, 1889, about one-half hour after the fire started.jpg
File:Great Seattle Fire at 1st and Union, June 6, 1889 (MOHAI 9284).jpg
File:Fire origin from 1st Ave. and Spring St., June 6, 1889 - DPLA - ff1748db89617aa78f64f14fad0c5952.jpg
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BAB40

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