Seattle Water Front
Dateca. 1885
Maker
Frank Jay Haynes
Born Saline, Michigan, 1853; died Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1921
Label TextUnlike earlier photographers who captured the pristine, uninhabited spaces east of the Mississippi, Haynes' intent was to present the imprint of settlement on the landscape-both positive and negative ramifications. These benign scenes of the developing Seattle waterfront, taken in the years just before Washington statehood, belie the tragic effects of urbanization (abetted by "Manifest Destiny") at this time: the displacement of Duwamish people from their ancestral lands along Elliot Bay, and the anti-Chinese sentiment that forced Asian immigrants from their downtown communities.
Object number94.46
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "The View From Here: The Pacific Northwest 1800-1930," August 8, 2003 - February 29, 2004Credit LineGift of Andrew Smith and Claire Lozier
Dimensions13 1/4 x 16 in. (33.66 x 40.64 cm)
MediumAlbumen print
Frank Jay Haynes
ca. late 1880s
Object number: 86.23
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