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English: Home of F. S. Sylvester on 16th Ave East, Seattle, 1907   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Home of F. S. Sylvester on 16th Ave East, Seattle, 1907
Description
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This postcard shows the home of Fred S. Sylvester at 706 16th Avenue East. The 1907 city directory lists Fred S. Sylvester as the President and Manager of Sylvester Bros. Co. wholesale grocers at 312-314 2nd Avenue South, with his brother George E. Sylvester as Vice-President. According to the city directory, brothers Fred and George Sylvester both lived in the house pictured here. As of 2018, this house at 706 16th Avenue East still stands.

Postcard is addressed to a Wm. P. Heald in Lincoln Center, Penobscot County, Maine, with the note, "Dear Bill, This is where I live my own home yet I often think of my young days and my kind friends at Lincoln. Fred S. Sylvester."

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Houses--Washington (State)--Seattle; Photographic postcards
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English: United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Date 1907
date QS:P571,+1907-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium
English: 1 photographic postcard: b&w; 3.5 x 5.5
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
11910
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English: Museum of History and Industry
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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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MOHAI, Postcard Collection, 2018.3.3.102

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