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| Title | McDonald School safety patrol, Seattle, 1943 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1943 |
| Caption | Seattle Schools initiated the first safety patrol program in the state in January 1922 at Muir School. Captain George Kimball became the head of the district-wide program. The F.A. McDonald School opened in 1914 and by the 1940s was an elementary school with between 400 and 500 students. |
| Notes | Handwritten on negative: Traffic control, McDonald school, opening day, 1943.
Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle - schools - McDonald (opening day).
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): September 7, 1943. |
| Subjects | School safety patrols--Washington (State)--Seattle; School children--Washington (State)--Seattle; Residential streets--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Wallingford (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI25606 |
| 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.; 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. |
