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| Title | House damaged by landslide, Seattle, February 26, 1948 |
| Photographer | Davis, Harvey
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1948 |
| Caption | A February 1948 storm drove floating logs into a wooden bulkhead on Sound View Drive, a mile south of Seattle's West Point Light. The seawall gave way, and waves washed out the foundations of a nearby home. The house soon dropped six or seven feet onto the beach below. The homeowner called on the city to build a concrete seawall. "There are a lot of voters living along this beach, " he remarked.
This photo, taken on February 6, 1948, shows the home on Sound View Drive which slid onto the beach after the seawall gave way. There were two people in the house at the time, but no one was injured. |
| Notes | Handwritten on negative: Slide - 3415 Sound View Drive 2-26-48.
Handwritten on sleeve: Landslides - Seattle - Sound View Drive.
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 27, 1948. |
| Subjects | Landslides--Washington (State)--Seattle; Houses--Washington (State)--Seattle; Beaches--Washington (State)--Seattle; Bodies of water--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Magnolia (Seattle, Wash.)
Puget Sound (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI24245 |
| 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. |
