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| Title | Yacht parade through Montlake Cut, Seattle, 1948 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1948 |
| Caption | The Montlake Bridge was the last of four bascule bridges to be built across the Lake Washington Ship Canal. It opened for traffic in June 1925. Like the Fremont, University, and Ballard bascule bridges, the Montlake Bridge has huge counterweights which lift the spans.
In this 1948 photo, the Montlake Bridge is open to allow the boats to pass through the cut on opening day of the boating season. The Seattle Yacht Club has organized this parade since its inception in the early 1900s. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: Ships - Yachts, with "Spirit, " "Valkyrie, " "Red Jacket" (Lake Washington).
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): May 10, 1948. |
| Subjects | Boats--Washington (State)--Seattle; Canals--Washington (State)--Seattle; Drawbridges--Washington (State)--Seattle; Montlake Bridge (Seattle, Wash.); Lake Washington Ship Canal (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Montlake (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI26580 |
| 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 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. |
