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| Title | Safety patrol picnic at Playland Amusement Park, Bitter Lake, May 1948 |
| Photographer | Rote, Clarence J.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1948 |
| Caption | In May 1948, members of Seattle's Junior Safety Patrol enjoyed their annual outing at Playland Amusement Park, a North Seattle institution from 1930 to 1961. Boys and girls from every elementary, middle, and high school in the city visited the Mystery House, rode the Dipper and Dodgem cars and tried their luck at the shooting gallery. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle - schools - safety patrol - Playland picnic.
Caption information source: P-I research files.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): May 25, 1948. |
| Subjects | Amusement parks--Washington (State)--Seattle; Amusement rides--Washington (State)--Seattle; School safety patrols--Washington (State)--Seattle; Children--Washington (State)--Seattle; Roller coasters--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Bitter Lake (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI25802 |
| 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. |
