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First Avenue, Seattle, Washington

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First Avenue, Seattle, Washington

A street scene taken during the "Klondike" excitement. The most notable feature lies in the fact that the buildings, trolley cars and vehicles are covered with large banners and signs with "Klondike" in large letters showing prominently.

The Phonoscope 02/1898

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1	Edison n.c. (MU 378).
2	James White. Frederick Blechynden
	T.A. EDISON'S PROJECTOSCOPE. Animated Pictures of Seattle to Be Re-produced. One of the latest enterprises of Thomas A. Edison, the electrical inventor, is that of sending a representative around the world to obtain animated pictures to be reproduced on the Edison Projectoscope and other instruments employed for that purpose. The person selected for that important work is Mr. James H. White of Orange, New Jersey. Mr. White is now at the Hotel Stevens, on his trip around the world, and a reporter of The Times was accorded the privilege of an interview with him this morning. "My object," said Mr. White , "is to obtain animated pictures of Seattle and other places for the purpose of illustrating life in the West, including its industries, mode of travel, transactions and life in general. The pictures I take are distributed throughout the world and will be reproduced on the Edison Projectoscope and other instruments for the reproduction of animated pictures. "Our apparatus is able to record fifty or sixty pictures per second of any moving object. The instrument was invented by Mr. Edison in 1892. ln making a subject 150 feet of negative is used, and about 3,300 distinctive pictures are taken on this length. "This is Mr. White's first trip so far west, and the reporter had the curiosity to ask how Seattle compared with Eastern cities of the same size. "Why," he said, "there is simply no comparison. I have stopped in every city of any account and I find Seattle the smartest and most pushing city I have visited. There is a push and enterprise here far beyond the comprehension of people in the East. When Eastern men and women want to get away from the rustlers for a brief vacation they mustn't corne to Seattle." While in the city it is Mr. White's purpose to take a series of pictures of the Ocean dock when the Williamette is preparing to sail for Dyea and other living moving scenes that will represent our every day lite in Seattle. Seattle Times, Seattle, 7 August 1897.
3	06-09/08/1897. © Thomas A. Edison, 25/10/1897	50 ft
	Seattle, Wash., Aug. 6. [...] James H. White, of Orange, N.J., representing Thomas A. Edison, is in the city. He will take kinetoscope and projectoscope photographs of the city, and will photograph the Willamette when she leaves the wharf for the north. White will go to Dyea to take pictures of the men bound for the interior. The Corvallis Times, Corvallis, mercredi 11 août 1897, p. 2.
4	États-Unis. Seattle.