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    • [Kaga Maru at Seattle]

    • [Kaga Maru at Seattle]

    • Great Northern Railway; Seattle, WA; King County; silk trade; international trade; S.S. Kaga Maru

    • The deck of the steamship Kagamaru (Kaga Maru) at dock in Seattle. Bales of silk are being raised from the hold of the ship. The ship carried silk from Japan to be loaded onto Great Northern Railway boxcars for shipping to Chicago and New York.
    • Asahel Curtis Photographs
    • [Transporting cattle by ship]

    • [Transporting cattle by ship]

    • cattle; cow; livestock; shipping; ship, cargo; Seattle, WA

    • View of cattle on board an unidentified ship at dock in Seattle. The cattle are enclosed in a open wood frame structure. Each cow is tied to the frame with a rope. A man is sitting on a crate on top of the structure.
    • Asahel Curtis Photographs
    • [Transporting cattle by ship]

    • [Transporting cattle by ship]

    • cattle; cow; livestock; shipping; ship, cargo; Seattle, WA

    • Full view of the deck of an unidentified ship with cargo of cattle on board. The pens for the cattle that line the sides of the deck are constructed in an open wood frame. Cattle are tied with rope to the posts. The top of one side has been...
    • Asahel Curtis Photographs
    • [Great Northern train in Ballard]

    • [Great Northern train in Ballard]

    • Ballard, WA; King Co; Great Northern Railway Bridge; Lake Washington Ship Canal; locomotive no. 2514

    • A great Northern Railway train on the G.N.R. bridge across the Lake Washington Ship Canal in Ballard. The engineer leans out of the cab of locomotive no. 2514. Steam billows from the stack.
    • Asahel Curtis Photographs
    • Loading Samson Brand apples

    • Loading Samson Brand apples

    • apple industry; E.E. Samson Company; Yakima, WA; Seattle, WA; shipping; stevedore; longshoreman

    • Crates of Samson Brand apples from E.E. Samson Company of Yakima, Washington are being hoisted onto a ship from the Hanford Street Dock in Seattle. Two longshoreman steady the platform as it is lifted. Other boxes of apples are on the dock in a...
    • Asahel Curtis Photographs
    • Seattle General Strike

    • Seattle General Strike

    • King County; Seattle, WA; shipbuilding industry; Skinner & Eddy Corporation; Seattle General Strike; strike; labor; employment

    • A large crowd of Skinner and Eddy Corporation ship workers is gathered in front of a long, low building on the Seattle waterfront. Skinner and Eddy Corporation is painted on the roof of the building in large letters. A small employment office is...
    • Asahel Curtis Photographs
    • [Loading apples at Hanford Dock]

    • [Loading apples at Hanford Dock]

    • International Stevedoring Company; Hanford Street Dock; apple industry; Seattle, WA; King County; international trade; longshoreman

    • Loading Washington apples from Yakima at the Hanford Dock in Seattle to be shipped to Liverpool. A longshoreman stands on the dock guiding a platform loaded with crates of Samson apples as it is lifted to the deck of the ship.
    • Asahel Curtis Photographs
    • [Kaga Maru at Seattle]

    • [Kaga Maru at Seattle]

    • Great Northern Railway; Seattle, WA; King County; silk trade; international trade; S.S. Kaga Maru

    • The Steamship Kagamaru (Kaga Maru) at dock in Seattle. The ship carries silk from Japan to be loaded onto Great Northern Railway boxcars for shipping to Chicago and New York on a special silk train.
    • Asahel Curtis Photographs
    • Loading timber at Tacoma Mill

    • Loading timber at Tacoma Mill

    • Tacoma, WA; Commencement Bay; Tacoma Mill Company; ship, lumber; lumber; lumber industry; Ship Mary E. Foster; Ship Eric

    • Two lumber sailing schooners, the Eric of San Francisco and the Mary E. Foster of Honolulu, loading lumber at a Tacoma Mill. A steamship is partially visible to the left. Lumber covers the dock waiting to be loaded.
    • Asahel Curtis Photographs
    • [Loading ice into refreigerator railcars]

    • [Loading ice into refreigerator railcars]

    • Yakima Valley Fruit Growers Assoication; Blue X Fruit; Zillah, WA; refrigeration; ice; shipping industry; fruit Yakima Valley Fruit Growers Assoication; Blue X Fruit; Zillah, WA; refrigeration; ice; shipping industry; fruit industry

    • Workers guide cakes of ice coming from a brick icehouse on a conveyor belt are headed for chutes in the tops of boxcars. Workers guide the ice into a car. The refrigerator cars will ship fruit for the Yakima Valley Fruit Growers Association.
    • Asahel Curtis Photographs
    • [Loading ice into refrigerator railcars]

    • [Loading ice into refrigerator railcars]

    • Yakima Valley Fruit Growers Assoication; Blue X Fruit; Zillah, WA; refrigeration; ice; shipping industry; fruit industry

    • Cakes of ice coming from the brick icehouse a conveyor belt are headed for chutes in the tops of boxcars at Zillah, Washington. Workers guide the ice into a car. The refrigerator cars will ship fruit for the Yakima Valley Fruit Growers Association.
    • Asahel Curtis Photographs
    • [Milwaukee Road - Pumping vegetable oil]

    • [Milwaukee Road - Pumping vegetable oil]

    • Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad; Milwaukee Road; Seattle, WA; Ocean Dock; car, tank; tung oil; China wood oil; Pacific Rim; international trade

    • Workers monitor the pumping of tung oil (China wood oil) direct from ship into Milwaukee Road tank cars at the Milwaukee Railroad oil terminal at Ocean Dock in Seattle.
    • Asahel Curtis Photographs
    • Unloading earthenware at Great Northern Docks

    • Unloading earthenware at Great Northern Docks

    • Great Northern Dock; Seattle, WA; shipping; longshoreman; stevedore; earthenware

    • Longshoremen at the Great Northern docks in Seattle use handcarts to move crates of earthenware from an unidentified ship to a warehouse on the dock. The earthenware will be shipped by rail to other parts of the country.
    • Asahel Curtis Photographs
    • Great Northern dock warehouse

    • Great Northern dock warehouse

    • Great Northern Dock; Great Northern Railway; Seattle, WA; shipping; earthenware; building, storage; interstate commerce

    • Interior of the warehouse at the Great Northern Dock in Seattle, Washington stacked with crates of earthenware. The crates were unloaded from a ship at the dock and moved into the warehouse where they await shipment to cities and towns across the...
    • Asahel Curtis Photographs

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