Tag Archives: Ship
Troops Boarding Ship, Seattle, 1945
Handwritten on sleeve: SEATTLE, PORT OF EMBARKATION, Troops loading.
Photographer: Art French
Image Date: 1945
Image Number: 1986.5.10558.1
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Ship Leaving for the Alaska Gold Rush, Seattle, ca. 1905
After gold was discovered in the Klondike and in Nome in the 1890s, people flocked to Seattle to load up on supplies and catch ships to Alaska. The stampede to the gold fields continued for more than a decade. This photo, taken from a Seattle pierin the summer of 1905 or 1906, shows a crowd on a ship headed to Alaska. Given the date of the photo, the men are probably traveling to Alaskan gold fields rather than the Klondike.
Photographer: Webster & Stevens
Image Date: ca. 1905
Image Number: 1983.10.PA5.27
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Ship Hassalo at Oregon Improvement Co. dock, Seattle, ca. 1885
Handwritten on mount: Oregon Improvement Co., ”Hassalo” at dock. 1880′s.
Photographer: Unknown
Image Date: ca. 1885
Image Number: 2002.3.274
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Lake Washington Shipbuilding Co., Houghton, ca. 1925
In 1924, the Lake Washington Shipyards Corporation opened a yard in Houghton, on the eastern shore of Lake Washington between Bellevue and Kirkland. In this photo, two men walk through the shipyard. The boats being built may be lifeboats or fishing boats.
Photographer: Webster & Stevens
Image Date: ca. 1925
Image Number: 1983.10.384.5
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Captain D. Fuchigami and Another Man on Board Ship, Seattle, ca. 1925
Born in 1863, Ella McBride began working in the photography field in 1909 when she managed the Edward Curtis Studio. She opened her own studio in 1917 with Wayne Albee. Albee moved to San Diego in 1925, and McBride continued to operatea studio in various Seattle locations. In 1932 she partnered with Richard Anderson; they continued to work together until she retired in 1954 due to her failing eyesight. She died in 1965 at the age of 102.
Photographer: McBride and Anderson Photographers
Image Date: ca. 1925
Image Number: 1974.5923.7
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Bull on Dock Near Ship, Probably in Seattle, ca. 1919
A small evaporated milk company which opened in Kent in 1899 grew to become the nationally known Carnation Company. Canned milk had a small market at first, but was soon accepted by hungry babies and gold-rush miners alike. By 1926, thecompany had six Seattle-area dairies and six local evaporated milk plants, plus 24 evaporated milk plants elsewhere in the country. This publicity photo for the Carnation Co. shows a bull near a ship that presumably transported their products to faraway places.
Photographer: Webster & Stevens
Image Date: ca. 1919
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Image Number: 1983.10.2436.2
Launching of U.S.S. James E. Kyes at Todd Shipyards, Seattle, 1945
For many years, Seattle has been a center for the ship building and ship repair industries. The Todd Shipyards Corporation has had a shipyard in Seattle since around 1918. This photo, taken in 1945, shows the U.S.S. James E. Kyes being launched at the shipyard.
Photographer: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Staff Photographer
Image Date: 1945
Image Number: PI26323
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U.S.S. Connecticut Leading Ships Out of Seattle, ca. 1908
Photographer: Webster & Stevens
Image Date: ca. 1908
Image Number: 1983.10.12646
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…Creative Reuse
Thursday Hidden Treasure
Table Lamp With Base Made From Wood From the Ship Diamond Head
Note: Electric table lamp, wooden parts were made from original railing from the ship Diamond Head. Ship built in 1866 as the Gainsborough in England, wrecked on Diamond Head, Hawaiʻi, raised and renamed. Oil barge for General Petroleum since ca. 1915; ca. 1938 tore railing, etc. off her. Ship moored on Lake Union by the City Light Plant; lamp has tan, red and black paper shade with electric cord.
…in Dry Dock
Thursday Hidden Treasure
“Caulkers” sign from Lake Union Dry Dock
Mallet from Lake Union Dry Dock
Note: Lake Union Dry Dock Company (LUDD) was founded in 1919 and is one of Seattle’s oldest businesses in current operation. It is the last remaining all-wooden dock in Seattle, located at the east side of Lake Union. During WWII, it shifted its focus to wartime vessels, and today works mainly on maintenance and repair of commercial and fishing vessels. Clients include Washington State Ferries and NOAA. The caulking tools and associated artifacts in this accession relate to wooden ship caulking using traditional oakum (hemp fiber soaked in pine tar) caulking. The fibers were driven into the wedge-shaped seam between wooden ship planks using a caulking mallet and iron. The caulking was then covered with putty or melted pine pitch, in a process called “paying.”
Thursday Hidden Treasure highlights artifacts in MOHAI’s collection that are not on everyday display.
