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| Title | Elvis Presley on the monorail during the World's Fair, Seattle, September 1962 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1962 |
| Caption | Elvis Presley visited Seattle to make his 11th motion picture, "It Happened at the World's Fair." Colonel Tom Parker accompanied him along with a staff of nine young men in black jump suits. Here, Elvis sits next to his costar on the monorail, as passengers on the monorail platform gape. |
| Notes | Elvis Presley also known as Elvis Aron Presley and as John Crow [note from the Library of Congress Authority File].
Handwritten on sleeve: Presley, Elvis.
Caption information source: P-I exhibit.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): September 5, 1962. |
| Subjects | Celebrities--Washington (State)--Seattle; Entertainers--Washington (State)--Seattle; Singers--Washington (State)--Seattle; Motion picture production & direction--Washington (State)--Seattle; Century 21 Exposition (1962 : Seattle, Wash.); Monorail railroads--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Personal Names | Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977 |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.39457 |
| 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; 120 roll film |
| 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. |
