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| Title | Trout rearing ponds at Seward Park, Seattle, 1948 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1948 |
| Caption | In 1935, during the Great Depression, a Washington Emergency Relief Act work crew built fish rearing ponds at Seattle's Seward Park. The Washington State Department of Game supervised the fish hatchery and, in May 1948, delivered 250, 000 young rainbow trout to the Cedar River and other area streams. |
| Notes | Handwritten on image: Seward Park Rearing ponds.
Handwritten on sleeve: Fish - Trout planting, with Les Walters, Art Watkins, Russell Winnett, Paul Shorett, A.F. Immenroth.
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): May 21, 1948. |
| Subjects | Fish hatcheries--Washington (State)--Seattle; Trucks--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Seward Park (Seattle, Wash.)
Seward Park (Seattle, Wash. : Park) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI23041 |
| 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 safety film negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| 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. |
