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| Title | Charles Nelson & Company steamer RIVERSIDE at the dock in Seattle, ca. 1911 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1911 |
| Notes | PH Coll 794.51 |
| Contextual Notes | In 1908 the Moran Co. of Seattle built the 2,500-ton steel steamer RIVERSIDE for Charles Nelson & Company. On June 18, 1913 the RIVERSIDE ran aground at Blunt's Reef, California, while enroute from Tacoma and Everett to San Francisco with 1,500,000 feet of lumber aboard. She was a total loss. (Source: Newell, Gordon, ed. "The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest." Seattle: The Superior Company, 1966.) |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Riverside (Ship)
Ships--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 | TRA923 |
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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. |
