File:Steamers MINNESOTA and DAKOTA at the Great Northern Railway docks, Smith Cove, Seattle, July 1905 (WARNER 333).jpg

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English: Steamers MINNESOTA and DAKOTA at the Great Northern Railway docks, Smith Cove, Seattle, July 1905   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Arthur Churchill Warner  (1864–1943)  wikidata:Q56170486
 
Arthur Churchill Warner
Alternative names
A.C. Warner
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 1864 Edit this at Wikidata 1943 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Granby Seattle
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Alaska (1898–1900); Yukon (1898–1900); Seattle Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q56170486
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English: Steamers MINNESOTA and DAKOTA at the Great Northern Railway docks, Smith Cove, Seattle, July 1905
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Caption on image: LH 298.

Handwritten beneath image: Minnesota with Baron Komura on board. Dakota.

On July 20, 1905 Baron Komura (Marquess Komura Jutarō), a Japanese diplomat arrived in Seattle on the steamer Minnesota from Yokohama.

The Seattle Lighting Company Gas Plant, North Station is shown in the foreground.

Warner 222

PH Coll 273.122

In 1892, the Great Northern Railway purchased 600 acres at Smith's Cove and built Piers 38 and 39. The Citizens Light and Power Company Bay Station coal gas plant (foreground) was built in 1902, which manufacturing gas by burning coal. Later owners were the Seattle Lighting Company in 1904, and the Seattle Gas Company in 1930.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Piers & wharves--Washington (State)--Seattle; Ships--Washington (State)--Seattle; Bays (Bodies of water)--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Subjects (LCSH): Minnesota (Ship); Dakota (Steamship); Elliott Bay (Wash.)
Depicted place Seattle
Date Taken on 1 July 1905
Medium
English: b&w
Dimensions height: 6 in (15.2 cm); width: 8 in (20.3 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,6U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,8U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
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The author died in 1943, 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 80 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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WAR0145

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