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Seattle Water Front
Seattle Water Front

Seattle Water Front

Dateca. 1885
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, 2004
Credit LineGift of Andrew Smith and Claire Lozier
Dimensions13 1/4 x 16 in. (33.66 x 40.64 cm)
MediumAlbumen print
Seattle Water Front
ca. 1885
Object number: 94.44
Seattle Water Front
ca. 1885
Object number: 94.45
Untitled, From The Album Souvenir of Burmah, M. J. Heney
Unknown artist
Before 1902
Object number: 87.49
Untitled, From The Album Souvenir of Burmah, M. J. Heney
Unknown artist
Before 1902
Object number: 87.52
Untitled, From The Album Souvenir of Burmah, M. J. Heney
Unknown artist
before 1902
Object number: 87.53
Untitled, From The Album Souvenir of Burmah, M. J. Heney
Unknown artist
before 1902
Object number: 87.54
N43 Sumiyoshi, Osaka
ca. 1865-1910
Object number: 86.66
View of the Coliseum, Rome
ca. 1854
Object number: 83.26
Khyber Rope Bridge
1858
Object number: 83.39