View of Hotel Tacoma from corner; people walking in street; 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: "Old Finney House, now Tacoma, to be torn down. S.E. cor. Woodward Ave. and Gratiot (State), April 1897."