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| Title | Frye & Company plant accident, Seattle, February 18, 1943 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1943 |
| Caption | Boeing's first B-29 crashed into the Frye meat packing plant while on a test flight, killing all eleven on board. The flames spread through the building causing 21 more deaths and many more injuries. Most of the livestock at the meat packing plant perished in the blaze. Due to wartime news censorship, the newspaper did not identify the type of plane or run any photos showing details of the craft.
In this image of the rescue effort, a fire fighter can be seen rescuing two hogs shown in the upper right. |
| Notes | Sign on building: Frye's Delicious Brand Hams and Bacon Wild [unintelligible].
Handwritten on sleeve: FRYE PLANE CRASH.
Caption information source: P-I exhibit; P-I research files.
Date photograph was published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: February 19, 1943. |
| Subjects | Fires--Washington (State)--Seattle; Fire fighting--Washington (State)--Seattle; Fire fighters--Washington (State)--Seattle; Rescue workers--Washington (State)--Seattle; Smoke--Washington (State)--Seattle; Disasters--Washington (State)--Seattle; Meat industry--Washington (State)--Seattle; Industrial facilities--Washington (State)--Seattle; Employees--Washington (State)--Seattle; Automobiles--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.3610.2 |
| 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 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned 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. |
