Prescript: a few days after I posted the restoration job below, Shorpy posted his at https://www.shorpy.com/node/27967?mc_cid=d6623af001. I think his is better.

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“S.S. ‘Dakota’ loading structural steel for the Orient.” Detroit Publishing Company Collection, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/det/item/2016805676/. Image restored. The photograph was probably taken in 1905. Dakota entered service in 1905 and sank in 1907.