F. Jay Haynes, the Northern Pacific Railroads official photographer (with his own car), visited Seattle in 1890. His records include this revealing look at the waterfront a year-or-so after the city’s Great Fire of June 6, 1889. The Haynes pan also reveals the knoll, right-of-center, that interrupted the ridge between Beacon hill, on the right, and First Hill, on the left. Much of the landfill used for reclaiming the tides for the Northern Pacific’s tracks were cut form this knoll or knob. This preceded the Jackson Street Regrade by several years. (Which is to say, I’ll find the date later. It is described in my – and City Council’s – Illustrated History of the Waterfront. You can find it all on this blog, with its own button.)