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| Title | Fishing boat Caroline in Ballard locks, Seattle, 1938 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1938 |
| Caption | Ever since the Lake Washington Ship Canal opened in 1917, work and pleasure boats have used it to travel between Puget Sound and Lake Washington. For years, there was no easy or cheap way to move logs, coal, and other resources directly from the east side of Lake Washington to Elliott Bay. The Hiram Chittenden Locks allow boats and ships from Lake Union and Lake Washington to be lowered to the level of Puget Sound. Those traveling the other way are raised to the level of the lakes. In addition, the canal's locks at Ballard became a regular Seattle tourist attraction.
This 1938 photo shows a fishing boat going through the Ballard locks. |
| Notes | Handwritten on negative: S.S. Caroline.
Handwritten on sleeve: Ships - "Caroline."
Caption by MOHAI staff.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): February 21, 1938. |
| Subjects | Fishing boats--Washington (State)--Seattle; Locks (Hydraulic engineering)--Washington (State)--Seattle; Canals--Washington (State)--Seattle; Hiram M. Chittenden Locks (Seattle, Wash.); Lake Washington Ship Canal (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Ballard (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI25919 |
| 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 nitrate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in.; stained |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned 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. |
