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This rare record looks north on the two railroad trestles – the Seattle Lake Shore and Eastern on the left and the Ram’s Horn, on the right, that survived from this point north the city’s Great Fire of June 6, 1889, with the splashing work of bucket lines. The Schwabacher Wharf seen here, thereby survived to serve in the early rebuilding of the ruined business district and the waterfront, which from this point south was consumed to the water-line.

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