File:Waterfront and downtown, Seattle, 1888 (MOHAI 2893).jpg

English: Signs in image: Our House. Clothiers. Safe Deposit Co. Gordon Hardware Co. Seattle Hardware Co. The Arcade - W.P. Boyd & Co. Drugs - [Asten?] & Co. Columbia House [...]. San Francisco Store - Dry Goods. St. Elmo Hotel. New England Hotel. Live Stable.

Caption on mount: Peiser - 817 and 819 Second Street, Seattle, W.T.

Caption on verso: First-class Work Guaranteed, No Matter How Bad the Weather. Peiser's Art Studio, 817 and 819 Second St., near Marion, Seattle, Wash. Ter. Positively the best portraits and the largest assortment and most perfect views of towns, localities, mills, logging camps, etc., to be found in the Territory. Duplicate orders can be made on all portrait sittings, as every negative is carefully preserved. A reduction is made on duplicates after the first order. Bear in mind this fact, that if you fail to get a good picture of yourself, family group or infant elsewhere, make the next trial at Peiser's Art Studio, and you will discovered that the motto ot that establishment, "First-class Work Guaranteed, No Matter How Bad the Weather," is no vain boast, [...] sequel will prove. All work done by the instantaneous process. The number of this order is ___.

Handwritten on verso: 1888.

Typed on verso: Columbia and Puget Sound depot and waterfront prior to the Seattle fire, 1889.

• Subjects (LCTGM): Waterfronts--Washington (State)--Seattle; Piers & wharves--Washington (State)--Seattle; Railroad cars--Washington (State)--Seattle; Business districts--Washington (State)--Seattle; Bodies of water--Washington (State)--Seattle; Northern Pacific Railway Company