File:Digging trench for Seattle water supply - 1900.jpg

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Description "Digging trench" from brochure Seattle and the Orient (1900), one of three photos collectively captioned "Cedar River pipe line. / Showing three sections of work being done by Pacific Bridge Co."
Date 1899-10-13, published 1900
Source

p. 115 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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Book edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen. The top and bottom photos are uncredited, although the middle one 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 the others as well.

Anders Beer Wilse  (1865–1949)  wikidata:Q144339
 
Anders Beer Wilse
Description Norwegian photographer
father of Robert Charles Wilse
Date of birth/death 12 June 1865 Edit this at Wikidata 21 February 1949 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Flekkefjord Municipality Edit this at Wikidata Oslo Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1900–49
Work location
Kristiania (Oslo), Kragerø, Seattle
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creator QS:P170,Q144339
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(Reusing this file)		 PD-US
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Image:Seattle_and_the_Orient_p115.jpg is the full page. The photos are individually available as Image:Digging trench for Seattle water supply - 1900.jpg, Image:Laying pipe for Seattle water supply 02 - 1900.jpg, and Image:Completed section of Seattle water supply pipe near Renton - 1900.jpg.

File:Workers digging Cedar River Pipeline, 1899.jpg
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