View of Hotel Tacoma; sign in front of building: "This building to be torn down. The entire stock in this store, jewelry, diamonds, watches, clocks, silverware, &c to be closed out regardless of cost." Next door to Walter Buhl & Co. Handwritten on back: "March 1897, building at S.E. corner Woodward Ave. and State St., the old Finney house, now the Hotel Tacoma, about to be torn down, picture taken by John W. Reid."