English: On front of image: "2849. E. W' Way Terminals. 4-8-15"

On verso of image: "2 sailing ships east water"

• Subjects (LCSH): W.B. Flint (Ship); St. Frances (Ship); Sailing ships--Washington (State)--Seattle; Duwamish East Waterway (Seattle, Wash.); Wharves--Washington (State)--Seattle

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This is the Port of Seattle Hanford Street Grain Terminal. Compare File:Panorama of harbor and shipyards, Seattle (CURTIS 479).jpeg (at right).

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According to https://penobscotmarinemuseum.org/finding-what-is-hiding-in-plain-sight-2/ the St. Frances (which must be the ship at left, given the picture there) was built in May 1882 by John McDonald in Bath, Maine. The three-master weighed 1,898 tons and was built for Flint and Co. (New York). It was sold in October 1899 to the city of San Francisco, then resold to salmon packers in 1909 and ultimately wrecked May 14, 1917 in Alaska.

Weekly Commercial News, August 27, 1921 in an article "Evolution of Shipping On the Pacific" refers to the W.B. Flint—possibly this ship, possibly another of the same name—as a "Canadian Pacific … sailing vessel of 800 tons" that "[t]hirty-five years ago [1888]" carried tea from Yokohama to Port Moody, Canada. The annotation on a different photo in the UW Libraries Collection, clearly matching the ship depicted here, describes it as "Bought ca. 1913 from Alaska Fishing Packing co. It completed the last voyage from Alaska in 1922. Destroyed ca. 1936 and burnt for scrap." The San Francisco Call, August 27, 1895 in an article on a different ship, "The Big Ship May Flint, Formerly the Persian Monarch, Arrives mentions in passing that the presumably eponymous W.B. Flint was a junior partner in Flint & Co. of New York; May Flint was his wife.