9-foot diameter Douglas Fir - 1900

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Description: Photo from brochure Seattle and the Orient. "A Washington Fir 9 Feet in Diameter". Lettering at the lower right of the photo (where photo credits often go in this pamphlet) appears to read "Fir tree 9 feet dia. / 350 / Wilse / Seattle". ("Wilse" is not entirely clear here, but is on other photos in the brochure.). Date: 1900. Source: p. 21 of Seattle and the Orient (more properly, Seattle …and the… Orient), a 1900 "souvenir" pamphlet edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen and published by The Times Printing Company (that is, the Seattle Times). Scanned at 300 dpi; images cleaned up using Picture Publisher's "remove pattern" feature. Author: Book edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen; Photo credit is "Wilse" (presumably Anders B. Wilse). Permission(Reusing this file): PD-US. Other versions: Image:Seattle and the Orient 21.jpg is the whole page; Image:9-foot_diameter_Douglas_Fir_-_1900.jpg is just the picture.