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Car stuck on muddy road, ca. 1927
Car stuck on muddy road, ca. 1927
TitleCar stuck on muddy road, ca. 1927
PhotographerWebster & Stevens
Dateca. 1927
CaptionThe Washington State Good Roads Association was founded in 1899 to push for tax money to improve the state's roads. In the 1920s, the group paid the Webster & Stevens company to take photos of very poor roads in the King County area.
NotesHandwritten on sleeve: Photos of cars stuck on muddy roads for Good Roads Assn.
SubjectsAutomobiles--Washington (State); Dirt roads--Washington (State); Mud--Washington (State)
PlacesUnited States--Washington (State)
Digital CollectionMuseum of History & Industry Photograph Collection
Image Number1983.10.10814.1
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Credit LinePEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved
RepositoryMuseum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI)
Repository CollectionPEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection
TypeImage
Physical Description1 nitrate negative; b&w; 8 x 10 in.
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned 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.
Photographer's Reference Number78130
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