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English: Workers using water hoses to regrade Denny Hill, Seattle, ca. 1909   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
English: Frank Harwood
Title
English: Workers using water hoses to regrade Denny Hill, Seattle, ca. 1909
Description
English:

Workers in the first Denny Hill regrading project sometimes used high pressure jets of water to wash away the hill. Over five million gallons of water were pumped from Elliott Bay and Lake Union every day. The dirt was washed out into the bay through tunnels and flumes.

Embossed on mount: Harwood. Handwritten on verso: Regrade. Caption by MOHAI staff.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Excavation--Washington (State)--Seattle; Hoses--Washington (State)--Seattle; Laborers--Washington (State)--Seattle
Depicted place
English: United States--Washington (State)--Seattle Belltown (Seattle, Wash.)
Date circa 1909
date QS:P571,+1909-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: 1 photographic print on stereo card: stereograph, b&w
Dimensions height: 4 in (10.1 cm); width: 7 in (17.7 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,4U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,7U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
2211
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
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Public domain
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.
Credit Line
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Frank M. Harwood Stereographs, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

[[Category:Seattle, Washington in the 1900s]

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