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Content/Description:Two vessels: British three-masted steamship (larger, at left), and American two-masted sidewheel steamship with one smokestack, anchored in Bellingham bay; military camp on shore to left; several canoes with people in foreground; Mount Baker and other snow-covered mountains in distance. The ships have been identified, by San Juan Island National Historical Park Chief Historian Michael Vouri, as the HMS Satellite (left) and the US Coast Survey Steamer Active, during the Northwest Boundary Survey of 1858-1861.

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Title
[Military vessels in Bellingam Bay, Washington: the HMS Satellite and the US Coast Survey Steamer Active]
Creator
McMurtrie, William Birch, 1816-1872, American, artist
Published
1858-1861
Full Collection Name
Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 1963.002:1293--B
Subject (Topic)
Bays
Military facilities
Vessels
Northwest, Pacific
Type
Image
Format
Paintings;
Watercolors
Marines (Visual works);
Travel sketches;
Extent
24 x 47.9 cm.
Other Physical Details
painting on paper: watercolor
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
Notes/Inscriptions:Supplied title. Signature (LL): Mc Murtrie. Handwritten (on verso) in ink: Property of Emily Francis McMurtrie; By Wm. B. McMurtrie; in pencil: Emily F. McMurtrie.
Supplied title. Signature (LL): Mc Murtrie. Handwritten (on verso) in ink: Property of Emily Francis McMurtrie; By Wm. B. McMurtrie; in pencil: Emily F. McMurtrie.
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