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Street railroad concrete slabs being set on Beacon Avenue, Seattle, July 25, 1934
Street railroad concrete slabs being set on Beacon Avenue, Seattle, July 25, 1934
TitleStreet railroad concrete slabs being set on Beacon Avenue, Seattle, July 25, 1934
PhotographerUnknown
Date1934
NotesCaption on image: State of Wash., W.E.R.A., Dist. #2; 17-B1-53; July 25 1934; Neg. No. 373; Laying of slab on Beacon Ave. [...]; K.N.

Signs in image include: [Dyeing] & Cleaning; Alt Heidelberg Lager Beer; Mrs. Maas' Cafe; A-1 Towing; Nick's Fruits [...]; Hanford street Bakery; Hanford [Street Grocery]; Bruno's Shoe Repair.

Typed label on verso: Pre-Cast Slab Laying: (106) Laying Slabs on Beacon Avenue, showing trucks used in transporting material from slab manufacturing plant, and in the laying operation. Many men sorely in need of employment received work on this worthwhile project.

Filed in: 263/2/81.
Subjects (LCTGM)Street railroads--Washington (State)--Seattle
Street railroad tracks--Washington (State)--Seattle
Trucks--Washington (State)--Seattle
Construction workers--Washington (State)--Seattle
Subjects (LCSH)Beacon Avenue (Seattle, Wash.)
Beacon Hill (Seattle, Wash.)
Location DepictedUnited States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Digital CollectionFederal Emergency Relief Administration Photographs
Order NumberFER0010
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Negative NumberUW20653z
RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Repository CollectionFederal Emergency Relief Administration Photograph Collection. PH Coll 263
Object TypePhotograph
Physical Descriptionb&w; 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.
Formatjpeg
Digital Reproduction InformationA photographic print was scanned as a 3000 pixel wide TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in width and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3.
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