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| Title | Workers on top of smoke stack near Boeing field, Seattle, 1937 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1937 |
| Caption | Perched on catwalks, workers chip away at this Puget Sound Power & Light Company smoke stack with sledgehammers. The plant's two stacks near the north end of Boeing field were each over 200 feet tall. The location and height of the stacks created hazardous conditions for landing pilots. The city of Seattle appropriated money for cutting down the stacks by 80 feet and installing a forced-draft system. |
| Notes | Handwritten on negative: Boeing Field smokestacks.
Handwritten on sleeve: SEATTLE, Chimney stacks, Boeing.
Caption information source: Seattle Daily Times, March 15, 1937, p. 5.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): March 15, 1937. |
| Subjects | Aerial photos--Washington (State)--Seattle; Demolition--Washington (State)--Seattle; Laborers--Washington (State)--Seattle; Smokestacks--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States—Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.7827.1 |
| 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 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 negative using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 5. . |
