- 5.5.3--WIL (F)-218
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- 1909
Part of The Coast Magazine Photographs
Laborers outside The Olympia Oyster Company warehouse and shipping department at Horr's Dock, West 4th & Tilton in Olympia, Washington, located in Thurston County. The company was owned by W.H. Kneeland and was the largest oyster company in Washington state, controlled one-third of the oyster beds on the Puget Sound and shipped to all parts of the Pacific Northwest, including Canada and Alaska. Other competing Oyster businesses at his time included J.J. Brenner Oyster Co., the Capital City Oyster Co., and the Olympia Packing Co. Photograph c. 1909.