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2015.6.5Description
Photograph. Image 8 x 6, on 12 x 10 cardboard. Photo of Olympia Brewing Company Bottling Works & Storage in Seattle. Six horse-drawn delivery wagons in front of bottling plant. Written in pencil on back: "Presented by E. W. Miles Secy & Tres City Distributing Dept" and "Read from right to left: Draught beer wagons, Hemphil, McElroy; Bottle Beer wagons, Schmidt, Erst [?], Newcomb, Richmond." Names identify drivers of beer wagons in photo. Also on back is paper tag from Liberal Engraving Company, Tacoma.
Location was corner of Railroad Avenue and Stewart Street, which is at wharf level below present-day Pike Place Market. Sign on far left extended over several railroad tracks and read in full: "Virginia St. Dock & Warehouse Company." See attached image circa 1911 from Paul Dorpat, Seattle Times columnist/historian.Name/Title
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