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| Title | Montlake Ditch |
| Photographer | Curtis, Asahel, 1874-1941 |
| Date | ca. 1901 |
| Notes | Waterway built between Lake Washington and Lake Union to transport logs by the Washington Improvement Company, ca. 1884
On verso of image: The first actual work on a canal was by harvey L. Pike who in 1860 with pick, shovel and wheelbarrow began building a one man canal. Pike soon abandoned his work, but later with other completed a canal for bringing logs from lake Washington to lake Union. A portion of the canal route was used for transporting coal from the mines at Newcastle and Coal Creek beiginning in 1872. The coal cars were taken from the mines to Lake Washington on barges across the lake, then on a narrow gauge track to lake Union, on barges across the lake from there to a narrow gauge track down Westlake and Pike Streets to bunkers at the foot of Pike Street. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Canals--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Asahel Curtis Collection |
| Order Number | CUR15 |
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| Negative Number | A. Curtis 01743 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Asahel Curtis Photo Co. Collection. PH Coll 482 |
| Physical Description | Photograph : silver gelatin, b&w |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2000. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | 1743 |
