594 results for: Maritime
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Carnation Milk Co. promotional photo showing a bull on a dock near a ship, circa 1919
A small evaporated milk company which opened in Kent in 1899 grew to become the nationally known Carnation Company. Canned milk had a small market at first, but was soon accepted by hungry babies and gold-rush miners alike. By 1926, the company had six Seattle-area dairies and six local evaporated milk plants, plus 24 evaporated milk plants elsewhere in the…
ID Number:1983.10.2436.2
Date:Circa 1919
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Ferry "Lincoln of Kirkland" at Anderson shipyard, circa 1923
The ferry "Lincoln of Kirkland" was launched in 1914 from the Anderson Shipbuilding Corporation in Houghton, on Lake Washington. About 1923, it was refurbished at the same yard. The ferry ran between Leschi and Madison Park to Kirkland until 1945. During World War II, the "Lincoln" ferried shipyard workers from Madison Park to a newly-constructed landing just north of the…
ID Number:1983.10.2530.2
Date:Circa 1923
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Barge being built at Anderson Shipyard, Houghton, circa 1921
In 1907, Captain John Anderson joined with the owners of the Bartsch & Tompkins shipyard at Houghton, Washington to found Anderson Shipbuilding Corporation. With the outbreak of World War I in Europe in 1914 and the opening of the Lake Washington Ship Canal in 1917, Anderson modernized the yard and started building larger ships. In 1918, the shipyard built four…
ID Number:1983.10.2530.3
Date:Circa 1921
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Racing shell under construction, circa 1923
Master-boatbuilder George Y. Pocock made racing shells for the University of Washington's champion crews. He built them in the university's Shell House on the shore of Lake Washington. Pocock made many design innovations which made his boats much faster than those of the competition.This photo, taken about 1923, shows one of Pocock's shells being built in the Shell House. They…
ID Number:1983.10.2608.3
Date:Circa 1923
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Young woman listening to a radio on the yacht "Muriel," circa 1923
This fashionably dressed young woman gazes out over what is probably Seattle's Portage Bay as she listens to a radio. Radios were still quite new in the 1920s. They had two parts: a receiver which picked up the signal, and a large, trumpet-shaped speaker which made the signal loud enough to hear. The receiver was large because it operated with…
ID Number:1983.10.2985.2
Date:Circa 1923
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Schooner Sophia Christensen, Seattle, circa 1925
The four-masted schooner Sophie Christenson, shown here docked in Seattle, was a cod ship that operated in the Bering Sea and Alaskan coast. This ship had been converted from transporting lumber. Handwritten on sleeve: Schooner Sophia Christensen.Photographer's Reference Number: 113362Caption information source: "Puget Sound's Cod Schooners" by Walt Crowley, HistoryLink.org Essay 3695.
ID Number:1983.10.3060.1
Date:Circa 1925
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USS Oregon on last voyage, Seattle, June 9, 1925
The USS Oregon battleship launched in 1893 for the United States Navy and served during the Spanish-American War (1898), the Philippine-American War (1899-1902), and WWI before she was decommissioned in 1919. In 1925, she was lent to the state of Oregon to serve as a floating monument and museum in Portland. Her stripped hulk was later used as an ammunition…
ID Number:1983.10.3087.2
Date:1925
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Ferry "Kitsap of Seattle" at Lake Washington Shipyards, 1926
The ferry "Kitsap of Seattle" was designed for the Kitsap Transportation Company, one of the first in Puget Sound to build auto ferries. The ferry operated on the Fauntleroy-Vashon Heights-Harper run beginning in 1926. The vessel was later sold to the Washington State Ferry system. Its career ended 1967 when it sank on the way to Alaska to become a…
ID Number:1983.10.3200
Date:1926
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The Grand Trunk Pacific dock at the foot of Marion Street , circa 1925
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway expanded their business to include steamship service in 1910. Steamers ran south to California and north to Alaska goldfields.In this photo, cars and trucks are parked on the railroad tracks of Railroad Avenue, now Alaskan Way. Parking was a problem even in the 1920s. Webster & Stevens number: 119452
ID Number:1983.10.3225.1
Date:Circa 1925
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Captain Robert Dollar, Seattle, circa 1926
"The grand old man of the Pacific,""the dean of American shipping," and "self-made shipping magnate" are a few of the phrases often used in reference to Captain Robert Dollar. Having left school at age twelve, he truly was a self-made man who rose through the ranks of the lumber industry to ownership, and later, found success in the shipping industry…
ID Number:1983.10.3254.1
Date:Circa 1926