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| Title | Cable car gripman J.G. Zorath, Seattle, 1940 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1940 |
| Caption | Some of Seattle's steep streets had cable car lines. Cable cars move by gripping a long wire cable that runs under the street. This 1940 photo shows J.G. Zorath, a gripman on one of the cable car lines. |
| Notes | Handwritten on negative: J G Zorath.
Handwritten on sleeve: Zorath, J.G. & d., Rosie.
Caption by MOHAI staff.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): August 22, 1940. |
| Subjects | Railroad employees--Washington (State)--Seattle; Cable railroads--Washington (State)--Seattle; Uniforms--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Personal Names | Zorath, J.G. |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI27208 |
| 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.; dichroic fog |
| 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. |
