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| Title | Worker making saddle at Duncan & Sons, Seattle, December 23, 1918 |
| Photographer | Curtis, Asahel, 1874-1931 |
| Date | 1918 |
| Caption | Duncan & Sons was a harness and saddle manufacturing business located at 212 Second Avenue South. Their familiar model horse stood above the entrance to the business for many years, only recently to disappear when the company closed.
In this photo, a worker rivets coat straps to the body of a cavalry saddle. It is part of a series of images documenting the saddle making process, all taken in 1918 near the end of World War I. |
| Notes | Caption on image: Duncan & Sons Inc. Seattle Wash. Operations on McClellan. Cavalry Saddle. Operation No. 16. Riviting [sic] Coat Straps to Saddle Body. A.C. |
| Subjects | Saddlery--Washington (State)--Seattle; Saddles--Washington (State)--Seattle; Laborers--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Pioneer Square (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | SHS19314 |
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| Credit Line | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Historical Society Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print: b&w; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from copy print 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 | 37002 |
