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| Title | Power shovel loading boulders onto flatbed train cars for Columbia River jetty, 1938 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1938 |
| Caption | These boulders are most likely for the building of Jetty "A", one of three jetties at the mouth of the Columbia River. The jetties maintain the depth and orientation of the navigation channel, creating a safe passageway for commercial and recreational vessels of all sizes. The jetties are composed of boulders stacked on top of each other and extending out into the ocean. The 6.9-mile South Jetty was constructed between 1885 and 1913. The 2.5-mile North Jetty was built in 1914 -1917, and the one-mile Jetty "A" was constructed in 1938-1939. |
| Notes | Written on sleeve: Columbia River, Jetty
Caption information source: http://columbiariverchannel.com/5601.html
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): September 4, 1938 |
| Subjects | Boulders
Hoisting machinery
Railroad cars |
| Places | United States—Washington (State)—Columbia River |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.1887.1 |
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| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI). |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 nitrate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from film positive as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4. |
