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| Title | Practice shell also known as a wherry, for competitive rowing boat built by Geo. Pocock, 1930 |
| Photographer | Richard Nicol |
| Date | 1930 |
| Notes | George Pocock apprenticed with his father, head boat builder at Eton on the River Thames, in England. He was enticed to Seattle by the first crew coach at the University of Washington where he set up a shop building boats. This practice shell is made of red Western Cedar.. |
| Personal Names | Pocock, George |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--King County--Seattle; |
| 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 a reproduction or to inquire about permissions, contact The Center for Wooden Boats 1010 Valley St., Seattle 98109, 206-382-2628 cwb@cwb.org . |
| Credit Line | The Center for Wooden Boats; All rights Reserved |
| Repository | The Center for Wooden Boats |
| 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. |
