<p>The best clue for locating the site of this photo is the shadowy building in the background, unmistakably the Sears Roebuck store.  The seaplane is probably coming to the dock for fuel; its crew is poised on the front of the plane.</p>
<p>Handwritten on sleeve: Standard Oil Pacific Plane.</p>
<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Seaplanes--Washington (State)--Seattle; Petroleum industry--Washington (State)--Seattle; Storage tanks--Washington (State)--Seattle; Bodies of water--Washington (State)--Seattle</li></ul><hr>
This Standard Oil facility was between Walker and Holgate Streets on the East Waterway of the Duwamish. A small, adjacent inland property may have been the world's first gas station (1907).
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Webster &amp; Stevens</div>
circa 1925 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1925-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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