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| Title | Photo of Skinner and Eddy shipyard, Seattle, 1918 |
| Date | 1918 |
| Notes | The Skinner & Eddy Shipyard operated in Seattle during WWI, building cargo ships initially for export and then for the U.S. Shipping Board. Located on the downtown Seattle waterfront, the Skinner & Eddy shipyard was merged with Todd Shipyard in May 1918. Seattle's General Strike began with shipyard workers at Skinner and Eddy, which employed a majority of the nearly 30, 000 shipyard workers in Seattle. More than sixty thousand workers joined the General Strike, which ran from February 6 to February 11, 1919. |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--King County |
| Digital Collection | King County Museum Collections
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| Note About Ownership | This record describes one of more than three hundred artifacts, photographs and documents, submitted by members of the Association of King County Historical Organizations. The King County Collects project took place during the county's sesquicentennial in 2001, to celebrate the shared collection of AKCHO's 205 members. The information presented here is the responsibility of the AKCHO organization which submitted the item for inclusion in the project. |
| Ordering Information | To order reproductions or inquire about permissions, contact: president@pugetmaritime.org or call PSMHS Library at 206-324-1125. Please cite the Negative Number. |
| Credit Line | Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | PSMHS Collection is located at the Museum of History & Industry, Seattle |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import. |
