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| Title | Last piece of steel closes span on Lake Washington Ship Canal Bridge, Seattle, 1961 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1961 |
| Caption | The last piece of steel closes the 4, 429-foot-long bridge across the Lake Washington Ship Canal, forming part of the Tacoma-Seattle-Everett Freeway.
The 1956 Federal-Aid Highway Act kicked off the Interstate construction program. Completed in the 1960s, Interstate 5 (I-5), of which the Tacoma-Seattle-Everett Freeway forms a part, is the only Interstate highway running from Canada to Mexico. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: SEATTLE, Bridges, Freeway, construction, span closing.
Caption information source: P-I research files; "Building Washington: A History of Washington State Public Works, " by Paul Dorpat and Genevieve McCoy, 1998.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): January 4, 1961. |
| Subjects | Bridge construction--Washington (State)--Seattle; Bridges--Washington (State)--Seattle; Construction workers--Washington (State)--Seattle; Lakes & ponds--Washington (State)--Seattle; Lake Washington Ship Canal (Seattle, Wash.); Lake Washington Ship Canal Bridge (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Eastlake (Seattle, Wash.)
Union, Lake (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.7529.1 |
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| 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 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned 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. |
