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Just over two years after Seattle's Great Fire, Seattle's July 4, 1891 parade vehicles gathered at the Northern Pacific Railroad's waterfront warehouses. Local businesses, including a bank and a boot store, sponsored some of the carriages. Newsboys from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ride in the large flag-draped vehicle to the lower left. Photographer Frank LaRoche's wagon is in the upper center. A portion of the Elliott Bay tidelands can be seen in the upper right of the image. The long, wood-framed Northern Pacific warehouses shown here were located at the foot of Third (now S. Third) Avenue, where it intersects with Lane Street.

Handwritten on mount: July 4, 1891 Signs in image: W. W. Buchanan & Sons; S. T. Co.; Post-Intelligencer News Boys; Emmanuel Myer, Prop.; La Roche, Photographer; P. V. Styer & Bros. Gas and Electric Furnitures; The Red Front Clothing House; Northern Pacific Railroad Co.

• Subjects (LCTGM): Fourth of July celebrations; Northern Pacific Railroad Company; Parades & processions--Washington (State)--Seattle; Piers & wharves--Washington (State)--Seattle

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This is looking toward Beacon Hill. All of this area is long since filled in; Lane Street no longer makes it this far west; this would now be roughly the northeast corner of the football stadium, Lumen Field.