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| Title | Montlake Bridge raised to allow sailboats through, Seattle, n.d. |
| Photographer | Scaylea, Josef |
| Date | n.d. |
| Caption | The Montlake Bridge was the last of four bascule bridges to be built across the Lake Washington Ship Canal. It opened for traffic in June 1925. Like the Fremont, University, and Ballard bascule bridges, the Montlake Bridge has huge counterweights which lift the spans.
In this photo, taken on Opening Day of the boating season, the Montlake Bridge is open to allow the boats to pass through the cut. The Seattle Yacht Club has organized this parade since its inception in the early 1900s. |
| Notes | Caption on verso: Montlake Bridge opens to allow the passage of hundreds of boats on their way to Lake Washington for the opening of the annual regatta which is a feature of Seattle's Seafare [sic] Celebration. Ektachrome by Josef Scaylea. |
| Subjects | Drawbridges--Washington (State)--Seattle; Sailboats--Washington (State)--Seattle; Canals--Washington (State)--Seattle; Lake Washington Ship Canal (Seattle, Wash.); Montlake Bridge (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Montlake (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 2002.48.599 |
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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. |
