City of Seattle ferry dock at Main St., ca. 1900
Title
City of Seattle ferry dock at Main St. , ca. 1900
Identifier
spl_shp_16912
Description (transcribed from original)
Transcribed from photograph : "Ships . City of Seattle (ferry) . At dock at foot of Main St. ? About 1900 . Built 1888 at Portland , Ore . On run between Seattle and West Seattle 1888-1913 . Sold in 1913 and became the Benicia running on San Francisco Bay. "
Subjects (LCSH)
Ferries--Washington (State)--Seattle Waterfronts--Washington (State)--Seattle Docks--Washington (State)--Seattle City of Seattle (Ferry) Ferries--Washington (State)--Seattle Steamboats--Washington (State)--Seattle West Seattle (Seattle, Wash.)
Photographer
Unknown
Neighborhood
Downtown Pioneer Square
Intersection
Waterfront and S . Main St .
Latitude
47.600069
Longitude
-122.335835
Date Created
1900?
Decade
1900-1909
Notes
On label attached to verso of photograph : "Ferry dock at West Seattle called Railroad Ave.- at Louisiana St. Railroad Ave. now Harbor Ave. S.W. Building in use as a boat house. 1949. Authority J.J. Dillon 2708-48th Ave. S.W. Av. AV. 0882. " Comparison with other images (e.g. , MOHAI 1983.10.10816 , http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/imlsmohai,5208) suggests that this the West Seattle , not Main Street , ferry terminal.
Type
image
Local Type
photographs
Digital Measurements
17.19 x 11.86 cm
Digitization Specifications
Master image scanned on Epson 10000 XL flatbed at 600 pixels per inch, 24 bit color, saved as TIFF file. Photoshop used to resize images to 300 ppi and convert to JPEG format. Master image file size: 34,137,006 bytes.
Digital Collection
Seattle Historical Photograph Collection
Rights and Reproduction
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Date Digital
2012-09-26
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