File:Seattle - Mercer School - 1900.jpg

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"Mercer School", one of several images brought together as "A few school houses of Seattle", from brochure Seattle and the Orient (1900).

This building was at Fourth Avenue N and Valley Street near the base of Queen Anne Hill. Opened in 1890, closed and demolished in 1948, the property is now the site of the Seattle Public Schools administration building. See Mercer on the site of Seattle public schools.
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p. 111 of Seattle and the Orient (more properly, Seattle …and the… Orient), a 1900 "souvenir" pamphlet edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen and published by The Times Printing Company (that is, the Seattle Times).

Scanned at 300 dpi; images cleaned up using Picture Publisher's "remove pattern" feature.
Author Book edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen. The photos are uncredited.
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Image:Seattle_and_the_Orient_p111.jpg is the full page. Just the pictorial part is at Image:Seattle Schools - 1900.jpg. The images of the individual schools are also all available; some of these required some manipulation of their respective backgrounds, because in the original layout the pictures overlap; also, for similar reasons, the top of one chimney of the Cascade School is "faked" by copying another chimney.

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