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| Title | Moss Bay Iron and Steel Works, Kirkland, ca. 1895 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1895 |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: Kirkland Steel Mill.
Peter Kirk's steel mill, Kirkland -- The mill was named The Great Western Iron and Steel Works on Steel Works Lake, formerly known as Forbes Lake, now known as Lake Kirkland. The mill became financially insolvent in 1895. The majority of land was bounded on the south by today's Central Ave and extended as far north as the Juanita Slough. The Great Western Iron Works Steel Mill, a part of the company, was located on Rose Hill on Forbes Lake. |
| Subjects | Steel industry--Washington (State)--Kirkland
Lakes & ponds--Washington (State)--Kirkland
Railroad tracks--Washington (State)--Kirkland
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| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Kirkland |
| Digital Collection | Eastside Heritage Center Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | L 75.0545 |
| Ordering Information | To order a copy of this image or inquire about permissions, contact the Curator of Collections at (425) 450-1049 or P.O. Box 40535, Bellevue, WA 98015. |
| Repository | Eastside Heritage Center |
| Repository Collection | Marymoor Collection |
| Physical Description | 1 negative: b&w; 1 x 1 1/4 in. |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned 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. |
