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| Title | Whaling boats docked in Meydenbauer Bay, Bellevue, ca. 1925 |
| Photographer | Schupp/Lagen Family |
| Date | ca. 1925 |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: ca. 1920's. Bldg. On Whaling dock in Meydenbauer Bay before fire.
Note from EHC records: The American Pacific Whaling Co.'s 7 boats were brought to Meydenbauer Bay in 1919 by William Schupp for the fresh water winter port. The whaling season ran from May through September off the coast of Alaska. Boats were steel hulled and steam powered. Between WWI & WWII the whaling company was the Eastside's second biggest employer, after the Houghton Shipyards. |
| Subjects | Piers & wharves--Washington (State)--Bellevue
Boats--Washington (State)--Bellevue
Lakes & ponds--Washington (State)--Bellevue
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| Personal Names | Schupp, William,
Lagen, William (Bill) |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Bellevue
Washington, Lake (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Eastside Heritage Center Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | L 85.39.2 |
| 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; 4 x 5 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. |
