Join Paul Dorpat and Jean Sherrard for an illustrated book talk of Seattle Now and Then: The Historic Hundred. This coffee-table compilation showcases the most compelling and essential of the more than 1,800 “Seattle Now and Then” photo-history columns that Dorpat has produced for the Sunday magazine of The Seattle Times for the more than 36 years since January 1982.

The book covers views from all directions throughout Seattle, highlighting its native roots and earliest days as a city (and its earliest photographs), and includes a special, four-foot-wide gatefold that reveals the city’s massive growth from the prospect of Queen Anne Hill. An introduction by West Seattle historian Clay Eals, the book’s editor, delves into Dorpat’s own history and impact, and Dorpat provides a new afterword.

Dramatic images comparing “then” to “now” explore the city’s regrades, bridges, thoroughfares and countless Seattle landmarks. The Great Seattle Fire, the Gold Rush, Pike Place Market, the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair get attention, as do breathtaking panoramas, all in a size and clarity rarely seen.

Seattle public historian, Paul Dorpat and co-author Jean Sherrard, who has served as Dorpat’s “now” photographer for the past dozen years, will be available after the talk for to personally inscribe books afterward.

The Globe Bookstore will be on hand to offer the book for sale.

Central Library, Auditorium, Sunday, October 28, 2018, 1pm

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