New Structures, 1890 Seattle

This project is a tabular version of the list of new buildings listed in the January 1, 1891 <em>Seattle Post-Intelligencer</em> from the previous year. My friend Curt Fischer and I cleaned up the Library of Congress' OCR of three pages and restructured it in a table. The transcription proejct is done. However, <strong>a future iteration</strong> of this table will include the current street names as well as addresses for known structures and wikipedia links for the major buildings that still exist today. The 1890 date is significant because of the number of buildings replaced by the 1889 Great Fire in downtown, as well as Seattle's continued suburban expansion. The pages are available for free on the Library of Congress Chronicling America site, after the Washington State Library completed a project to scan, OCR and post them. The OCR struggles with blurry 19th century type at times, though. I have links to the original text on my site ba-kground.com.本项目将1891年1月1日出版的《西雅图邮报-问询报》（Seattle Post-Intelligencer）中刊载的上一年度新建建筑清单整理为表格形式。我与友人柯特·费舍尔（Curt Fischer）对美国国会图书馆（Library of Congress）针对三页原文生成的光学字符识别（Optical Character Recognition，OCR）结果进行了校勘整理，并将其重构为标准化表格格式。本次转录整理工作已全部完成。不过，该表格的后续迭代版本将补充当前通用街道名称、已知建筑的精准地址，以及现存主要建筑的维基百科（Wikipedia）链接。选取1890年作为时间节点具有特殊意义：1889年西雅图市中心大火焚毁了大量建筑，灾后重建工作与西雅图持续推进的郊区扩张进程相互交织，使得该年度新建建筑清单具备更高研究价值。在华盛顿州图书馆完成扫描、光学字符识别及上传工作后，用户可在美国国会图书馆《美国编年史》（Chronicling America）官方网站免费获取这三页原始内容。不过，受限于19世纪模糊的印刷字体，该光学字符识别结果偶尔会出现识别误差。我在个人网站ba-kground.com上提供了原始文本的跳转链接。