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Image of Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 8, November 1904
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Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 8, November 1904

Since the city's earliest days, Seattleites proposed canals to cheaply and easily move logs, coal, and other resources between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington. Possible routes extended from the Black River at the south end of Lake Washington to canals through Lake Union and Shilshole Bay in the north. A 1891 report commissioned by the federal government explored five possible…
ID Number:2019.3.11.9
Date:1904
Image of Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 9, November 1904
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Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 9, November 1904

Since the city's earliest days, Seattleites proposed canals to cheaply and easily move logs, coal, and other resources between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington. Possible routes extended from the Black River at the south end of Lake Washington to canals through Lake Union and Shilshole Bay in the north. A 1891 report commissioned by the federal government explored five possible…
ID Number:2019.3.11.10
Date:1904
Image of Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 10, November 1904
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Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 10, November 1904

Since the city's earliest days, Seattleites proposed canals to cheaply and easily move logs, coal, and other resources between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington. Possible routes extended from the Black River at the south end of Lake Washington to canals through Lake Union and Shilshole Bay in the north. A 1891 report commissioned by the federal government explored five possible…
ID Number:2019.3.11.11
Date:1904
Image of Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 11, circa 1905
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Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 11, circa 1905

Since the city's earliest days, Seattleites proposed canals to cheaply and easily move logs, coal, and other resources between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington. Possible routes extended from the Black River at the south end of Lake Washington to canals through Lake Union and Shilshole Bay in the north. A 1891 report commissioned by the federal government explored five possible…
ID Number:2019.3.11.12
Date:Circa 1905
Image of Map of Lake Washington Canal Entrance and Profile of Lake Washington Canal, Seattle, circa 1911
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Map of Lake Washington Canal Entrance and Profile of Lake Washington Canal, Seattle, circa 1911

Since the city's earliest days, Seattleites proposed canals to cheaply and easily move logs, coal, and other resources between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington. Possible routes extended from the Black River at the south end of Lake Washington to canals through Lake Union and Shilshole Bay in the north. A 1891 report commissioned by the federal government explored five possible…
ID Number:2019.3.49
Date:Circa 1911
Image of North Canal section drawings, Seattle, circa 1911
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North Canal section drawings, Seattle, circa 1911

Since the city's earliest days, Seattleites proposed canals to cheaply and easily move logs, coal, and other resources between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington. Possible routes extended from the Black River at the south end of Lake Washington to canals through Lake Union and Shilshole Bay in the north. A 1891 report commissioned by the federal government explored five possible…
ID Number:2019.3.50
Date:Circa 1911
Image of Montlake canal, Seattle, circa 1900
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Montlake canal, Seattle, circa 1900

Before the building of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, a small canal connected Lake Washington with Lake Union's Portage Bay. This photo shows the canal in the Montlake area. Caption on image: S.P.Co.Photographer's Reference Number: 1587
ID Number:Lib1988.33.30
Date:Circa 1900
Image of Black River, near Renton, circa 1898
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Black River, near Renton, circa 1898

The Black River, at the south end of Lake Washington, was once the lake's main drainage channel. It was also the main route for commerce between the lakeside towns and Seattle on Elliott Bay. In the 1910s, the building of the Lake Washington Ship Canal changed the drainage pattern of the lake, and the Black River slowly disappeared. The old…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.92
Date:Circa 1898
Image of Canoes on Black River, circa 1898
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Canoes on Black River, circa 1898

Until 1916, the Black River linked Lake Washington with the Duwamish River, and the water was deep enough for steamboats to travel between towns on the lake and Puget Sound. After the lake was lowered in 1916, during construction of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, the Black River dried up and gradually disappeared. This photo shows the Black River as…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.238
Date:Circa 1898
Image of Black River, Seattle, circa 1899
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Black River, Seattle, circa 1899

Before the building of the Lake Washington Ship Canal lowered the level of Lake Washington, the Black River linked lake commerce with Puget Sound by way of the Duwamish River. After the lowering of the lake during the summer of 1916, the Black River dried up and gradually disappeared. This photo shows the Black River as it looked around 1898-1900.
ID Number:Lib1988.33.284
Date:Circa 1899
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