File:Log boom cradle construction, Port Blakely, Washington, ca1904 (HESTER 201).jpeg

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English: Log boom cradle construction, Port Blakely, Washington, ca.1904.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Wilhelm Hester  (1872–1947)  wikidata:Q46103403
 
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death October 1872 Edit this at Wikidata 25 February 1947 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Hamburg Seattle
Work period 1893-1906
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Seattle Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q46103403
Title
English: Log boom cradle construction, Port Blakely, Washington, ca.1904.
Description
English: Tree trunks used for pilings were shipped along the Pacific Coast in wooden cradles called log booms. Built of the heavy timbers shown here and towed by steamers or powerful tugboats, cradles were filled with logs and chained and turnbuckled into a rigid mass. (Tall Ships on Puget Sound, Robert A. Weinstein, c1978)
  • Subjects (LCSH): Log transportation--Washington (State)--Port Blakely
Depicted place Port Blakely, Bainbridge Island, Washington
Date circa 1904
date QS:P571,+1904-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Accession number
201
Source
English: Wilhelm Hester Photographs Collection
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The author died in 1947, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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HES233

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