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Seattle Water Front
Seattle Water Front

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, 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
Frank Jay Haynes
ca. 1885
Object number: 94.44
Seattle Water Front
Frank Jay Haynes
ca. 1885
Object number: 94.45
3146 Mound Terrace
Frank Jay Haynes
ca. 1895
Object number: 94.47
3102 Liberty Cap and Hotel
Frank Jay Haynes
ca. 1895
Object number: 94.48
No. 3115, Castle Geyser Cone
Frank Jay Haynes
late 1870s-early 1880s
Object number: 86.18
Liberty Cap and Hotel, Yellowstone National Park
Frank Jay Haynes
ca. late 1880s
Object number: 86.19
Grotto Geyser, Yellowstone National Park
Frank Jay Haynes
ca. late 1880s
Object number: 86.20
Gibbon Falls, 84 Feet, Yellowstone National Park
Frank Jay Haynes
ca. 1884
Object number: 86.21
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Frank Jay Haynes
ca. late 1880s
Object number: 86.22
No. 3126, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and Falls
Frank Jay Haynes
ca. late 1880s
Object number: 86.23
No. 3123, Hayden Valley Between Lake and Falls
Frank Jay Haynes
ca. late 1880s
Object number: 86.24