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Loading treated water pipe at Pacific Creosoting Co., Creosote, ca. 1935
Loading treated water pipe at Pacific Creosoting Co., Creosote, ca. 1935
TitleLoading treated water pipe at Pacific Creosoting Co., Creosote, ca. 1935
PhotographerUnknown
Dateca.1935
CaptionWorkers at the Pacific Creosoting Company plant on Bainbridge Island are loading creosoted wood water pipe on a Great Northern Railway wood flatcar. Wooden pipe allowed economical distribution of water in cities and towns around King County. Similar products were produced at the West Coast Wood Preserving Company plant in West Seattle.
SubjectsPipes (Conduits)--Washington (State)--Creosote; Railroad freight cars--Washington (State)--Creosote; Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.); Pacific Creosoting Company (Seattle, Wash.)
PlacesUnited States--Washington (State)--Creosote
Digital CollectionNorthwest Railway Museum Image Collection
Accession Number91.02.28
Ordering InformationTo inquire about reproductions or permissions, please contact the Northwest Railway Museum at info@trainmuseum.org or write to PO Box 459, Snoqualmie, WA 98065.
RepositoryNorthwest Railway Museum
Physical Description1 photographic print: b&w; 24.6 x 15 cm
TypeImage
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3.
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