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| Title | Monorail track under construction on Fifth Avenue, Seattle, 1961 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1961 |
| Caption | Construction on Seattle's monorail system began in April 1961. In September of that year, construction crews were erecting the precast concrete piers along Fifth Avenue.
Here, a derrick hoists one of the monorail system's sixty-two T-shaped piers. The large building in the background is Grosvenor House, at 500 Wall Street. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: SEATTLE, Monorail, construction.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): September 19, 1961. |
| Subjects | Monorail railroads--Washington (State)--Seattle; Hoisting machinery--Washington (State)--Seattle; Construction workers--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Belltown (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.9869.1 |
| 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. |
