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| Title | View Ridge School students watching construction of new building, Seattle, March 12, 1948 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1948 |
| Caption | View Ridge Elementary School began in portable classrooms in the fall of 1944, adding additional grades each year until a permanent building was constructed in 1948. Local newspapers described the new building as "streamlined" with all the classrooms on one floor and a maximum number of windows. In this photo, pupils watch a construction worker and the portable school buildings show in the background. |
| Notes | Handwritten on negative: View Ridge school children watching construction of new building, 3/12/48.
Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle - schools - View Ridge.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): March 17, 1948. |
| Subjects | Building construction--Washington (State)--Seattle; Laborers--Washington (State)--Seattle; School children--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
View Ridge (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI25742 |
| 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 safety film 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. |
