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DescriptionSeattle water supply intake and wing dam - 1900.jpg
One of three photos collectively captioned "Bringing Cedar River water to Seattle. / This shows work in hand by Pacific Bridge Company." The photo is individually captioned "Headworks intake and wing dam".
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p. 114 of Seattle and the Orient (more properly, Seattle …and the… Orient), a 1900 "souvenir" pamphlet edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen and published by The Times Printing Company (that is, the Seattle Times).
Scanned at 300 dpi; images cleaned up using Picture Publisher's "remove pattern" feature.
Author
Book edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen. The photos are uncredited, although one related photo on the next page has "Wilse" lettered on it (at lower left). That would be Anders Beer Wilse, so he is probably the photographer of these as well.
Anders Beer Wilse
(1865–1949)
Description
Norwegian photographer father of Robert Charles Wilse
Date of birth/death
12 June 1865
21 February 1949
Location of birth/death
Flekkefjord Municipality
Oslo
Work period
1900–49
Work location
Kristiania (Oslo), Kragerø, Seattle
Authority file
: Q144339
VIAF: 11872032
ISNI: 0000000037452319
LCCN: no92001066
Open Library: OL465293A
GND: 1061736962
WorldCat
creator QS:P170,Q144339
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Image:Seattle_and_the_Orient_p114.jpg is the full page. The photos are individually available as Image:Cedar River - 1900.jpg, Image:Seattle water supply intake and wing dam - 1900.jpg. and Image:Laying pipe for Seattle water supply 01 - 1900.jpg.
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== Summary == {{Information |Description=One of three photos collectively captioned "Bringing Cedar River water to Seattle. / This shows work in hand by Pacific Bridge Company." The photo is individually captioned "Headworks intake and wing dam". |Source
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