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| Title | Barge being built at Anderson Shipyard, Houghton, ca. 1921 |
| Photographer | Webster & Stevens |
| Date | ca. 1921 |
| Caption | In 1907, Captain John Anderson joined with the owners of the Bartsch & Tompkins shipyard at Houghton, Washington to found Anderson Shipbuilding Corporation. With the outbreak of World War I in Europe in 1914 and the opening of the Lake Washington Ship Canal in 1917, Anderson modernized the yard and started building larger ships. In 1918, the shipyard built four wooden oceangoing steamers for France. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: Lake Union DD Co Boats Barge at Houghton.
Caption by MOHAI staff. |
| Subjects | Boat & ship industry--Washington (State)--Kirkland; Hoisting machinery--Washington (State)--Kirkland; Lakes & ponds--Washington (State)--Kirkland |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Kirkland
Washington, Lake (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.2530.3 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 nitrate negative: b&w; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made from original negative 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. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | 96470 |
