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| Photo of one of the early iterations of what is now the University of Washington's Friday Harbor Labs. Photo courtesy of the University of Washington's Special Collections. |
The photo above dates to between 1909 and 1924, and is of a location on the shorelines of Friday Harbor on San Juan Island (about here). The building in the forefront of the photo still sits on the shoreline, and was used as one of the early sites of what has become the University of Washington's Friday Harbor Labs. My guess is that those tents perched on the hillside hosted students, and according to the history linked above, the site was eventually abandoned in favor of the Lab's current location here due to the steepness and muddiness of this location. That steepness and muddiness, though, did not prevent the site from developing through time, though, and those tents have been replaced with some very high value real estate on the outskirts of the town of Friday Harbor. Here is the contemporary view:
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| 15 November 2020 photo of the shoreline of Friday Harbor, Washington |
