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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".
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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).

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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)  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 Oslo
Work period 1900–49
Work location
Kristiania (Oslo), Kragerø, Seattle
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creator QS:P170,Q144339
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Other versions 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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