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English: Steamer BERTHA in Prince William Sound, probably 1900   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
English: Anders Beer Wilse
Title
English: Steamer BERTHA in Prince William Sound, probably 1900
Description
English:

On verso of image: S.S. BERTHA, Copper Mountain, Land Locked Bay, Prince Willam Sound, Alaska, Wilse Photo .

PH Coll 285.20

The BERTHA operated under various owners all along the coast of the Pacific Ocean, from Alaska to Panama (p. 46, 84, 122, 202), and was even used as a floating hotel for miners at Cook Inlet, Alaska in 1914 (p. 258). She was destroyed by fire in 1915 when water entered the forward hold and ignited an amount of lime (p. 258). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

  • Subjects (LCSH): Bertha (Steamship); Steamboats--Alaska
Depicted place Alaska
Date circa 1900
date QS:P571,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
411
Source
English: Transportation Photographs Collection
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