John Duthie opened a small shipyard in Seattle around 1900. By 1930, Duthie & Company had changed its focus and renamed itself Wallace Bridge & Structural Steel Company. The Wallace plant fabricated structural steel for a number of bridges in Washington state, including Seattle’s Montlake Bridge (1925), the Lewis & Clark Bridge over the Columbia River (1929), and the Deception Pass and Canoe Pass Bridges (1935).
On March 4, 1930 Seattle photographer H. W. Miller took this panoramic group portrait of Wallace Bridge workers (left) and management (right) gathered at the steel plant on the Duwamish River for a company photograph.
Handwritten on image: Photo E. W. Miller, 910 - Stewart Handwritten on image: Wallace Bridge & Structural Steel Company Employees, March 4, 1930, Seattle, Wash. SHS category: Groups - Workers
Caption information source: The Seattle Daily Times, April 26, 1945, p. 14. Caption information source: HistoryLink.org Essays 5698 and 10216.
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: b&w ; 39 x 8 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.
