"Beaver" steamboat, ca. 1880 - fded12a647c4e24b4d1090d905fe164f

Transcribed from photograph: ""Beaver" - First Steamer on Puget Sound." The Beaver first began operation in the Puget Sound in 1836 and continued service until being wrecking during a collision with the steamer Yosemite in 1892. The original date and photographer are unknown. The same image was published in the 1939 "Fifth annual report, road engineers."