S.S. "Williamette", Leaving for Klondike

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S.S. "Williamette", Leaving for Klondike

Shows the steamer backing out from the docks of the Northern Pacific R.R.Co., at Seattle Wash., with its immense load of passengers waving adieux to relatives and friends. In the foreground can be seen a large crowd of men and women, life size, all filled with the prevailing excitement and enthusiasm.

Maguire & Co 03/1898.

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1 Edison n.c. (MU 377).  
2 James White. Frederick Blechynden  
3 09/08/1897. © Thomas A. Edison, 25/10/1897 50 ft
 

Seattle, Wash., Aug. 6.
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James H. White, of Orange, N.J., representing Thomas A. Edison, is in the city. He will take kinetoscope and projectoscope photographs of the city, and will photograph the Willamette when she leaves the wharf for the north. White will go to Dyea to take pictures of the men bound for the interior.


The Corvallis Times, Corvallis, mercredi 11 août 1897, p. 2.

4 États-Unis. Seattle.
 

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