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| Title | Clock at Colman Dock, Seattle, 1910 |
| Photographer | Pierson & Co. |
| Date | 1910 |
| Caption | This clock, built by the E. Howard Co. of Boston, was installed at Seattle's Colman Dock in 1908. The clock served as a beacon for land and water travelers, its four 54-inch dials lit from inside. On the evening of April 25, 1912, the steamship Alameda slammed into the dock and the tower sheared off, fell onto the Alameda, and then into Puget Sound. The clock was reinstalled in a new, taller tower after its repair, but that structure was replaced with a more modern building in 1936 and the clock put into storage. The broken and rusty clock was rediscovered in a warehouse 1976, restored to mint condition and reinstalled at Colman Dock in May 1985. |
| Notes | Caption on image: Colman Dock Seattle 1910
Caption information source: HistoryLink.org |
| Subjects | Tower clocks—Washington (State)—Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)—Seattle
Colman Dock (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1980.6877.5.59 |
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| Credit Line | Austin Seward Photograph Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI). |
| Repository Collection | Austin Seward Photograph Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print on linen backing: b&w; 7.5 x 9.5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original photograph as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS2. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | 162 |
