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| Title | Mount Baker boathouse, Seattle, ca. 1908 |
| Photographer | Gamble |
| Date | ca. 1908 |
| Caption | A family lived in the quarters upstairs in the boathouse. Notice the woman standing on the corner of the deck surrounding the quarters. She is the mother of Inez Lawrence, who donated this photo to the Rainier Valley Historical Society. The photo was taken looking north on the west shore of Lake Washington in the Mount Baker neighborhood.
In the background you can see the Spring Hills pumping station, which supplied water to the Seattle city reservoir on Spring Hill, now Beacon Hill. The city sold the pump house after the great Seattle Fire of 1889 when the reservoir failed to have sufficient pressure to be effective against the fire. The city used it until 1901, when it began obtaining its water supply from the Cedar River. |
| Notes | Caption on image: Mt. Baker Park Boat House.
Embossed on image: Gamble, Seattle U.S.A. |
| Subjects | Boathouses--Washington (State)--Seattle
Piers & wharves--Washington (State)--Seattle
Waterfronts--Washington (State)--Seattle
Lakes & ponds--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Mount Baker (Seattle, Wash.)
Washington, Lake (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Rainier Valley Historical Society Photograph Collection |
| Accession Number | 01.037.01 |
| Ordering Information | To order a copy of this photograph, please email Rvhsoffice@aol.com and mention the Accession Number. |
| Repository | Rainier Valley Historical Society, Seattle |
| Repository Collection | Lawrence Collection |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic postcard: b&w; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 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. |
