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| Title | Sea-Tac Airport, Bow Lake, ca. 1950 |
| Photographer | Smith, Kyle |
| Date | ca. 1950 |
| Caption | On July 9, 1949, a new international airport between Seattle and Tacoma was opened. The airport cost $11 million and opened free of debt. United Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Pan American World Airways and Western Airlines started their regular passenger service at Sea-Tac on the day of the dedication. |
| Notes | Caption on verso: Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Washington - The largest and busiest airport in the Great Pacific Northwest is also the terminus for Alaska and the Orient with scores of flights daily. Regular schedules commence from here to the Orient and Europe. The terminal provides a complete and unique shopping area for visitors and tourists. Color by Kyle Smith.
Caption by MOHAI staff. |
| Subjects | Airports--Washington (State)--SeaTac; Seattle-Tacoma International Airport |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--SeaTac |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1995.6.181 |
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| Credit Line | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Postcard Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic postcard: color; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original postcard as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
