File:Steamer Geo. W. Dickinson under construction 02 - 1900.jpg

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"Moran Bros. Co.'s ship yard—View of steamer Geo. W. Dickinson 50 days after her keel was laid. She is being built for the Pacific Clipper Line" from Seattle and the Orient (1900); see Robert Moran (shipbuilder); the shipyard was on the Seattle waterfront.

The ship was, in fact, purchased by the U.S. Navy and renamed the Seward: see Annual Report of the Quartermaster General to the Secretary of War for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900, p. 50.
Date 1900; hand-lettering at the lower right of the photo dates it as March 28, 1900.
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p. 56 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).

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Author Book edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen. Photo is uncredited.
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