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| Title | Steam dredge SEATTLE, 1902 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1902 |
| Notes | On verso of image: Dredge Seattle at G.N. Dock, 1902. |
| Contextual Notes | The Seattle Bridge Co. constructed a powerful hydraulic dredge, the SEATTLE, which was employed initially in the improvements to the harbor at Everett authorized by the government and involving the dredging of 2,700,000 cubic yards of fill material. The 144-foot dredge was designed by E.L. McAllester, the well-known naval architect of Seattle. It's pump, ladder and cutter were built under the Bowers patents and their design and construction was under the personal supervision of A.B. Bowers, the patentee. (pg. 62) 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) | Seattle (Dredge)
Dredges--Washington (State)
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State) |
| Digital Collection | Transportation Collection
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| Order Number | TRA717 |
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| Negative Number | UW7964 |
| 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. |
