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April 6, 2014 1400 × 443 Seattle Now & Then: Two Views from the Needle (or, A Stitch in Time)

That this centerfold from a late 1880s tour book describes its prospect as from Capitol Hill is evidence of Arthur Denny's intentions then to lure the state capitol to the hill on his addition that would be soon named for him after his failure to pull the capitol away from Olympia.

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