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| Title | Library in portable classroom at Ballard High School, Seattle, 1937 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1937 |
| Caption | In March 1937, Seattle residents turned down a school bond levy designed to relieve overcrowded classrooms expanding existing schools and building new ones. Ballard High School had over 2, 000 students at the time, 450 of whom went to classes in wooden portable buildings on the school grounds. Plans had included the expansion of the school's library which was originally designed for only sixty students.
This photo, taken during the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's coverage of the unsuccessful March 1937 school bond levy campaign, shows the library in a portable classroom at Ballard High School. |
| Notes | Handwritten on negative: Ballard Hi library.
Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle - schools - Ballard (overcrowding).
Caption by MOHAI staff.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): March 1, 1937. |
| Subjects | School overcrowding--Washington (State)--Seattle; Libraries--Washington (State)--Seattle; Schools--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Ballard (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI25409 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 safety film negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
