This portrait of Gertrude Van Doren Hardenberg was taken November 7, 1918 at the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Company shipyard at the launch of the steamship Blakeley. The Blakeley was a 4,000 ton wooden steamship, the first ship contracted with PSB&DC by the U. S. government. Gertrude Van Doren Hardenberg was the sister of George E. Hardenberg, secretary of the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co.
This photograph is part of an album of Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co. projects; many of their projects were documented by noted Seattle photographer Frank H. Nowell. Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Company (later Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company) was established in Seattle in 1889 as a branch of the San Francisco Bridge Company. In its earlier days, the firm built many wooden ships, including sternwheeled steamboats for the Yukon gold rush and multi-masted freighters.
Inscribed on negative: NOV-7-1918 Embossed on recto: Frank H. Nowell, 1212 Fourth Ave., Seattle, U. S. A. Handwritten on verso: 5/5 "Blakeley" Stamped on verso: Censored, U. S. Naval Intelligence, 13th Naval District, Seattle, Wash. Photographer's number: 19460
Caption information source: Seattle Daily Times, November 7, 1918, page 21
Physical Description: 1 photographic print mounted on linen : b&w ; 7.5 x 9.5 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State. View the finding aid for this collection at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv27029
Credit: MOHAI, James G. McCurdy II Photographs and Other Material, 1995.37.19.2.39, photo by Frank H. Nowell
