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''by William Issel and Robert Cherny'' [[Image:Spear and Harrison 1860s wnp71.2174.jpg|800px]]

[[Image:Spear and Harrison 1860s wnp71.2174.jpg|800px]] '''Spear and Harrison, c. 1860s, a couple of decades before the Coast Seamen's Union was founded on a lumbe