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| Title | Anderson Steamboat Company steamer FORTUNA at the dock, probably in Seattle, ca. 1912 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1912 |
| Notes | PH Coll 794.25 |
| Contextual Notes | In 1906, the passenger steamer FORTUNA, 81 tons, 107 feet in length, was built at the Anderson Steamboat Co. yard for Capt. Anderson and the Seattle Street Railway Co. and placed in service on Lake Washington. In 1927, the FORTUNA was converted to a ferry and sold by King County to the King Shipbuilding Co. of Seattle. (Source: Newell, Gordon, ed. "The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest." Seattle: The Superior Company, 1966.) |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Fortuna (Steamboat)
Steamboats--Washington (State)--Seattle
Piers & wharves--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Transportation Collection
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| Order Number | TRA897 |
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Coastal Puget Sound Photograph Collection. PH Coll 794 |
| Object Type | Negative |
| Physical Description | nitrate negative; 5.75 x 3.5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a nitrate negative using a Microtek Scanmaker 9800XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 6 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2009. |
