Shows unidentified steamboat at the Union Pacific dock or City dock (foot of Main)

The canoe in foreground was copied and pasted from Boyd and Braas 22.

According to Paul Dorpat, Seattle Now and Then I, 1984: The Oregon Improvement Company filled the waterfront between its coal docks off King Street and Yesler's wharf with two large pier sheds it designated as simply A and B. The area between these sheds and the business district along First Avenue S. was, neither entirely filled nor covered. Thus up until the mid-90s, it was still possible for native dugouts to make their way between the Oregon piers and up under the overhead quay to their Ballast island.

• Subjects (LCTGM): Waterfronts--Washington (State)--Seattle; Piers & wharves--Washington (State)--Seattle; Steamboats--Washington (State)--Seattle; Canoes--Washington (State)--Seattle
• Subjects (LCSH): Oregon Improvement Company