14 - Flooding Dry Dock at Puget Sound Navy Yard

Image 14 - Flooding Dry Dock at Puget Sound Navy Yard
Image 14 - Flooding Dry Dock at Puget Sound Navy Yard

The Puget Sound Navy Yard is in Bremerton.

There are many lithographed copies of this image, but it was apparently not stolen from Otto - some copies are dated 1905 or earlier, prior to his arrival from Minnesota. He must have obtained the negative from someone. Perhaps he licensed it, and perhaps he pirated it just like others would later pirate his work. We do not know.

Copy of Image 14 - Flooding Dry Dock at Puget Sound Navy Yard
Copy of Image 14 - Flooding Dry Dock at Puget Sound Navy Yard

This image is a copy of Otto's photo; the signature has been cropped and the original caption has been overwritten. A new caption has been written below the original.

Some of the lithographed versions are shown below.

Copy of Image 14 - Flooding Dry Dock at Puget Sound Navy Yard
Copy of Image 14 - Flooding Dry Dock at Puget Sound Navy Yard
Copy of Image 14 - Flooding Dry Dock at Puget Sound Navy Yard
Copy of Image 14 - Flooding Dry Dock at Puget Sound Navy Yard

This copy has an undivided back (only the address could be written on the back side), so it must have been made in 1906 or earlier. Elsie Frasch was born on October 16, 1906 near Denver, Colorado as the family headed west, so unless Otto visited Seattle earlier, he could not have taken this photo.

Copy of Image 14 - Flooding Dry Dock at Puget Sound Navy Yard
Copy of Image 14 - Flooding Dry Dock at Puget Sound Navy Yard

There are two other images numbered 14:

Reuse of image numbers and different image series make it difficult to know how many images Otto published.