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'Now & Then': An exhibit of Seattle past
The Seattle Times local historian Paul Dorpat has spent nearly 30 years practicing the art of repeat photography. And now Seattle's Museum of History & Industry takes us on an extraordinary trip through time — an exhibit that explores the changing face of Washington state, Seattle and the Wallingford neighborhood that Dorpat calls home.
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THEN: With the Western Lumber Mill behind them, neighborhood children go wading at the southwest corner of Lake Union. The scene dates from 1902 or 1903. Later, this sporting pool was filled in for development.
JEAN SHERRARD
NOW: In the contemporary repeat, Tia and Liana Owen stand near the corner of Eighth Avenue North and Aloha Street.
JEAN SHERRARD
NOW: In 2000 the low reservoir was taken out of service and replaced with underground tanks. The site was developed as an extension of Cal Anderson Park with a fountain, reflecting pools and promenade paths.
ANDERS WILSE / COURTESY OF SEATTLE MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES
THEN: Dragging scoops behind them, horse teams excavate Capitol Hill's "low service reservoir" on Sept. 18, 1899. This and the high reservoir at Volunteer Park were first filled with Cedar River water on Jan. 10, 1901. The old Columbia School at East Mercer Street is top center right. It was renamed Lowell School in 1910.
JEAN SHERRARD
NOW: Jean Sherrard used the Joshua Green Building to make his repeat. The flatiron hotel seen at upper left in the "then" photo held the odd intersection bordered by Westlake, Fourth and Pine. The hotel was reduced to a one-story drugstore then, in the 1980s, razed for the new civic open space facing Westlake Center, created in 1988.
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THEN: Soon after Westlake Avenue was cut through from Fourth Avenue and Pike Street to the south end of Lake Union in 1907, a photographer from the Webster and Stevens studio took this view north on Westlake from the two-story frame structure that preceded the Joshua Green Building (1913).
JEAN SHERRARD
NOW: The bridge links Seattle's Fremont and Queen Anne neighborhoods. Recently, crews completed a suicide-prevention fence along both sides of the nearly 3,000-foot span.
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THEN: On March 25, 1931, only days before a completed Aurora Bridge would have captured it in Lake Union for good, the Monongahela and its four masts escaped by tow between the bridge's cantilevers.
As Pacific Northwest magazine's longtime favorite local historian, Paul Dorpat has spent nearly 30 years practicing the art of repeat photography — recording contemporary "repeat" images of historical scenes he's uncovered through friends and collectors, contributors, admirers and archives all over the state.
Now, in collaboration with fellow photo-history enthusiasts Jean Sherrard and Berangere Lomont, he has teamed up with Seattle's Museum of History & Industry to take us on an extraordinary trip through time — an exhibit that explores the changing face of Washington state, Seattle and the Wallingford neighborhood that Dorpat calls home.
The exhibit, "Now and Then," begins with scenes from Paris, the birthplace of photography, and includes one of the first recorded images of Paris, taken by Louis Daguerre in the mid-19th century. The first known image of Seattle is also on view. Hundreds of other photos capture our changing sociocultural, economic and physical landscape, helping viewers understand not only what is new but also what has been lost and what endures.
The exhibit, sponsored by The Seattle Times, runs through June 3, 2012, at the museum, 2700 24th Ave. E. For further information, call 206-324-1126 or visit www.seattlehistory.org.
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