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| Title | Aerial of sewer break damage looking northwest, Seattle, 1957 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1957 |
| Caption | The Ravenna Trunk Sewer line had been built in 1909-1910 and was one of the first sewer tunnels built with the aid of compressed air. The original contractor on the project gave up because of the quicksand prevelant in the area, and it was this quicksand that contributed to the underground cave-in. The disaster began on November 11, 1957, and caused extensive damage to Ravenna Boulevard. Repairs were not completed until October 20, 1959. This photo looks northwest along NE Ravenna Boulevard. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: Cave-ins - Seattle - Ravenna Blvd ("Big Hole" aerials).
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): November 14, 1957. Caption information from: "Seattle's Catastrophic Ravenna Cave-In, " by Roy W. Morse. |
| Subjects | Holes--Washington (State)--Seattle; Accidents--Washington (State)--Seattle; Sewerage--Washington (State)--Seattle; Aerial photographs--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Ravenna (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI24311 |
| 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 acetate 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. |
