Close up of the front of the Old Forestry Building, shortly before it was torn down, University of Washington, circa 1929-1931
Handwritten on verso: In front of Forestry Building. It is to be torn down next year as it is unsafe. The bugs have eaten the wood too bad. Filed in: UW - Old Forestry Building (#438) The Forestry Building was built for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909. It was sponsored by the State of Wa...
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ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:uwcampus/35774 2023-05-15T18:48:58+02:00 Close up of the front of the Old Forestry Building, shortly before it was torn down, University of Washington, circa 1929-1931 United States--Washington (State)--Seattle Scanned from a photographic print at 100-200 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2016 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/uwcampus/id/35774 unknown University of Washington Campus Photographs University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, [Order Number or Negative Number] http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/uwcampus/id/35774 For information on permissions for use and reproductions please visit UW Libraries Special Collections Use Permissions page: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/permission-for-use University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections. University of Washington Subject Files. PH Coll 700 Photograph; image ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T15:57:52Z Handwritten on verso: In front of Forestry Building. It is to be torn down next year as it is unsafe. The bugs have eaten the wood too bad. Filed in: UW - Old Forestry Building (#438) The Forestry Building was built for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909. It was sponsored by the State of Washington and was intended to showcase the state's forest resources. Architects Charles Saunders and George Lawton created a building that echoed the European style of Howard's buildings but which also incorporated the log-cabin idiom of early pioneer buildings. Featuring enormous unprocessed logs felled in Chehalis (now Gray's Harbor) County, the Forestry Building's grand colonnade and soaring interior spaces evoked the majesty of Washington's seemingly limitless forests and, not coincidentally, implied the great potential wealth they contained. An article in the Seattle Times called it “Nature's storehouse, which is more striking than anything man could devise as a display of the Northwest's greatest division of natural wealth.” Located on the site of the present-day Husky Union Building, it served for a time as a forest and botanical museum and also housed the Burke Museum, then known as the Washington State Museum. By 1931, however, insects and the elements had taken their toll and the building was demolished. Other/Unknown Material Alaska Yukon University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Log Cabin ENVELOPE(-134.954,-134.954,59.766,59.766) Pacific Saunders ENVELOPE(-45.316,-45.316,-60.700,-60.700) Yukon |
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Handwritten on verso: In front of Forestry Building. It is to be torn down next year as it is unsafe. The bugs have eaten the wood too bad. Filed in: UW - Old Forestry Building (#438) The Forestry Building was built for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909. It was sponsored by the State of Washington and was intended to showcase the state's forest resources. Architects Charles Saunders and George Lawton created a building that echoed the European style of Howard's buildings but which also incorporated the log-cabin idiom of early pioneer buildings. Featuring enormous unprocessed logs felled in Chehalis (now Gray's Harbor) County, the Forestry Building's grand colonnade and soaring interior spaces evoked the majesty of Washington's seemingly limitless forests and, not coincidentally, implied the great potential wealth they contained. An article in the Seattle Times called it “Nature's storehouse, which is more striking than anything man could devise as a display of the Northwest's greatest division of natural wealth.” Located on the site of the present-day Husky Union Building, it served for a time as a forest and botanical museum and also housed the Burke Museum, then known as the Washington State Museum. By 1931, however, insects and the elements had taken their toll and the building was demolished. |
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Close up of the front of the Old Forestry Building, shortly before it was torn down, University of Washington, circa 1929-1931 |
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Close up of the front of the Old Forestry Building, shortly before it was torn down, University of Washington, circa 1929-1931 |
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Close up of the front of the Old Forestry Building, shortly before it was torn down, University of Washington, circa 1929-1931 |
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Close up of the front of the Old Forestry Building, shortly before it was torn down, University of Washington, circa 1929-1931 |
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Close up of the front of the Old Forestry Building, shortly before it was torn down, University of Washington, circa 1929-1931 |
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Close up of the front of the Old Forestry Building, shortly before it was torn down, University of Washington, circa 1929-1931 |
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close up of the front of the old forestry building, shortly before it was torn down, university of washington, circa 1929-1931 |
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ENVELOPE(-134.954,-134.954,59.766,59.766) ENVELOPE(-45.316,-45.316,-60.700,-60.700) |
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Log Cabin Pacific Saunders Yukon |
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Log Cabin Pacific Saunders Yukon |
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