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1. [Great Northern Wellington disaster] [Great Northern Wellington disaster] Great Northern Railway; Wellington, WA; King County; snow; avalanche; train wreck; disaster; worker, rescue Men stand among downed trees that cover Great Northern mail train no. 27. The train was swept 150 feet into a ravine below the tracks at Wellington by the avalanche of March 1, 1910

2. [Great Northern - The Wm. Crooks] [Great Northern - The Wm. Crooks] Great Northern Railway; The Wm. Crooks; locomotive, steam; Seattle, WA; King County On January 7, 1893, the Wm. Crooks, was the first locomotive of the Great Northern to arrive in Seattle. This photo was taken at a later date.

3. [Seattle Regrade] [Seattle Regrade] Seattle, WA; King County; Denny regrade; Washington Hotel; shovel, steam H.W. Hawley steam shovels work at the hillside below the Washington Hotel during the Denny Regrade in Seattle. Horse drawn wagons filled by the steam shovels haul the dirt away from the site. The hotel...

4. [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.

5. [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...

6. [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) unloading bales of silk at dock in Seattle. Longshoremen on the dock with handcarts wait for the bales to be lowered.

7. [Silk in warehouse] [Silk in warehouse] Great Northern Railway; Seattle, WA; King County; silk trade; international trade; building, storage Interior of a warehouse filled with bales of silk that had recently been unloaded from the S.S. Kaga Maru. The final destination of each bale is printed on the bale: Chicago or New York. The warehouse...

8. [Customs inspectors inspect silk] [Customs inspectors inspect silk] Great Northern Railway; Seattle, WA; King County; silk trade; international trade; bale; customs agent; U.S. Customs Service Three custom inspectors wearing uniforms prepare to inspect bales of silk in a warehouse that had recently been unloaded from the steamship Kaga Maru. The warehouse was located at Pier 88 in Seattle.

9. [Great Northern silk train] [Great Northern silk train] Great Northern Railway; Seattle, WA; King County; silk trade; international trade; bale; longshoreman; boxcar Longshoremen using handcarts load bales of silk into a Great Northern Railway boxcar. The bales were stored in a warehouse on Pier 88 in Seattle. Two men push a cart up a ramp into the boxcar. The silk...

10. [Great Northern silk train] [Great Northern silk train] Great Northern Railway; Seattle, WA; King County; silk trade; international trade; locomotive no. 2517 The Marathon, Great Northern Mountain class P-2 no. 2517 pulling the silk train out of Seattle, Washington on a record breaking round trip run to St. Paul carrying $5,000,000 worth of raw silk. People...

11. [Great Northern silk train] [Great Northern silk train] Great Northern Railway; Seattle, WA; King County; silk trade; international trade; locomotive no. 2517 The Marathon, Great Northern Mountain class P-2 no. 2517 pulling the silk train out of Seattle, Washington on a record breaking round trip run to St. Paul carrying $5,000,000 worth of raw silk. People...

12. 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...

13. [U.S.S. Decatur] [U.S.S. Decatur] U.S.S. Decatur; Elliott Bay; Seattle, WA U.S.S. Decatur at anchor on Elliott Bay, Seattle, Washington. The photographer has superimposed an older image of the Decatur on a later photograph of Elliott Bay.
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