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| Title | Crowd gathered after plane crash at Lester Apartments, Seattle, August 13, 1951 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1951 |
| Caption | A four-engine B-50 bomber crashed into the Lester Apartments, 3004 Tenth Avenue South, on August 13, 1951. The accident site was on the west side of Beacon Hill, two miles north of Boeing Field. |
| Notes | Signs in image read: Sicks' Seattle Brewing & Malting Co. Visitors Parking Only, Row No. 1. Home of Rainier Extra Pale - Main Office. Airport Way.
Handwritten on sleeve: Accidents - aviation - B-50 (Lester apts).
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): August 13, 1951. |
| Subjects | Aircraft accidents--Washington (State)--Seattle; Crowds--Washington (State)--Seattle; Fires--Washington (State)--Seattle; Fire fighting--Washington (State)--Seattle; Sicks Seattle Brewing & Malting Co. |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Beacon Hill (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI20240 |
| 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.; stained |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
