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| Title | Steamship OHIO at dock in Seattle, ca. 1900 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1900 |
| Notes | Caption on image: All aboard for Nome, S.S. Ohio, May 24, 1900 (?), No. 260, Seattle, Franks & Romanz
On verso of image: About 30, 000 persons leave Seattle every spring for Alaska and Yukon, nearly all of whom return in the Fall, although every year the permanent population gets larger. S.S. Ohio leaving Seattle for Nome. |
| Contextual Notes | Former trans-Atlantic liner diverted to Seattle in May 1898 for gold rush service to the Yukon. (pg. 34) Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Ohio(Steamship)
Steamships--Washington (State)--Seattle
Passengers--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Transportation Collection
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| Order Number | TRA567 |
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| Negative Number | UW7932 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Ships Collection |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2001. |
