Image: Seattle - Pioneer Building - 1900

Description: "Puget Sound National Bank. / The block is called the Pioneer, and is the property of the Yesler Estate, Inc.," from brochure Seattle and the Orient (1900). The Pioneer Block is still standing as of 2007, and is on the National Register of Historic Places (along with the nearby Iron Pergola and totem pole). In the picture, a small sign can be seen on the rightmost ground floor window saying "Puget Sound National Bank". A sign at the opposite and of the building says "FURS". A partially legible sign over the window of the second storefront from left appears to say "OPENS [?] FLATS"; there is a company name in the window, but all that can be clearly made out is that the initials are either "S.L." or "S.I." Inscribed over the arched entryway is "Pioneer Building".
Title: Seattle - Pioneer Building - 1900
Credit: p. 120 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.
Permission: PD-US
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
Attribution Required?: No