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English: "Overlooking the big packing plant of Frye-Bruhn Co.", from brochure Seattle and the Orient (1900).


A visible sign on the building says "Frye-Bruhn-Company / Pork and beef packers. / F.B. Co. Brand Hams, Bacon · Kettle Rendered Lead Lard" There appears to be another word or two in smaller letters after that.

The plant, according to the text on page 133 of the same booklet, was "located on the tide flats in the southern part of the city on the line of the Grant Street Electric Railway"; at the time, the Grant Street Electric Railway connected South Park to downtown Seattle. Grant Street was basically along the same route as today's Airport Way, at the foot of Beacon Hill. Polk's Seattle City Directory 1899 (Polk's Seattle Directory Co., 1899), p. 398 gives the address as 9th Avenue at the corner of Norman, and Cassandra Tate, Frye Art Museum, HistoryLink, March 3, 2002, describes it as "[l]ocated on 15 acres of tide flats in south Seattle, near the current (2002) site of the Seahawks football stadium" (now - 2019 - Centurylink Field), but this and other photos clearly show a location much further south, matching other sources that say 9th & Walker.
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p. 135 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).

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Author Book edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen. Written on the picture at lower right is "247.C/Wilse" (that would be Anders Beer Wilse)
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