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| Title | Boy climbing a slippery pole at the Community Festival, Kent, Washington, July 1956 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post Intelligencer |
| Date | 1956 |
| Caption | Kent, Washington's second annual Community Festival opened on Friday, July 13, 1956, and ran for three days. During the first day, area youngsters entered cake-eating contests and boys competed to catch a greased pig or climb a slippery pole. The festival also featured a parade, the crowning of a queen, livestock judging and a farm show.
In this photo taken at the 1956 Kent Community Festival, an audience has gathered to watch a boy's attempt at climbing the slippery pole. |
| Notes | Handwritten on negative: Kent Festival
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): July 15, 1956 |
| Subjects | Contests--Washington (State)--Kent; Festivals--Washington (State)--Kent; Children--Washington (State)--Kent |
| Places | United States—Washington (State)--Kent |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.4711.4 |
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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 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from film positive using Epson Expression 10000XL 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, JPEG quality measurement 5. |
