[Seattle Directory]: McIsaac, C.H. & Co.:

$2,000 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

C.H. McISAAC & CO'S SEATTLE CITY AND KING COUNTY DIRECTORY 1885-86...VOLUME I [all published]. A rare and early Seattle residential and commercial directory produced just a few years before Washington statehood. The contents of the directory can be summed up by the subtitle, which reads: "An alphabetically arranged list of business firms, farmers and private citizens - a classified list of all trades, professions, and pursuits - a miscellaneous directory, city and county officers, terms of court, public and private schools, churches, banks, incorporated institutions, secret and benevolent societies, etc., etc." In this particular copy, a former owner has noted in pencil several Chinese business owners, including: "Sing Lee, laundry, n s Washington bet 5th and 6th" (p.147), "Tai Wing, cigars, s s Mill bet 2d and 3d" (p.154), "Wa Chong, general store n e cor 3d and Washington" (p.160), and "Yik Shing Tong, physician, w s 2d bet Washington and Main" (p.168), along with several others.In addition to the directory listings, there are advertisements peppered throughout, including a fourteen-page section before the titlepage, occasional ads in the text, a handful of pages at the conclusion, and four additional advertisement leaves. The businesses are the expected mix of Pacific Northwest products and services: photographers, hotels, liquor and wine dealers, grocers, newspapers (namely Die Tribuene, "the oldest German paper in Washington Territory"), shipbuilders, furriers, stone cut

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