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| Title | Artist's concept drawing of Fourth Avenue and Westlake Avenue monorails, Seattle, ca. 1920 |
| Photographer | Webster & Stevens |
| Date | ca. 1920 |
| Caption | As early as 1910, inventors and businessmen believed that a monorail would solve Seattle's downtown traffic problems. The Universal Elevated Railway Company tried to convince the city to build monorails on Fourth and Westlake Avenues, but the city decided to develop a ground-level trolley system instead. About fifty years later, a monorail was built along part of Westlake Avenue to carry people from downtown to the Seattle World's Fair.
This photo shows an artist's idea of what Seattle's Fourth Avenue and Westlake Avenue monorails might look like. The drawing was made for the Universal Elevated Railway Company, sometime around 1920. The artist superimposed his drawing on a photograph of the intersection. |
| Subjects | Monorail railroads; Universal Elevated Railway Company |
| Places | Fourth Avenue (Seattle, Wash.); Westlake Avenue (Seattle, Wash.); Seattle (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.10813 |
| 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 | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 negative: nitrate, b&w; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 4. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | W&S 67, 468 |
