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Unknown location 1910s

Pile driver barge, with ships at anchor behind. At right, schooners "Bowdoin" and "Wellesley", home port for both was San Francisco. Both Bowdoin and Wellesley were built in 1907 in Prosper, Oregon, and in 1912 Bowdoin's owner was the Bowdoin Co. and Wellesley's was the Wellesley Co. Both were active in West Coast lumber shipping. See wnp71.0343. [G810 SH-589] (GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346)
Photographer Unknown (Martin Behrman Negative Collection / Courtesy of the Golden Gate NRA, Park Archives)

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