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Fire Station #28 being demolished, Seattle, ca. 1956
Title
Fire
Station
#28
being
demolished
,
Seattle
,
ca.
1956
Photographer
Unknown
Date
ca. 1956
Caption
Fire
Station
#28
was
located
on
Orcas
Street
, a
half
block
east
of
Rainier
Avenue
in
Hillman
City.
When
this
station
was
built
,
teams
of
horses
pulled
the
fire
wagons
and
firemen
had a
brass
pole
to
slide
down
from their
living
quarters.
The
new
station
was
built
on
Rainier
Avenue
a
few
blocks
south
and was
put
into
service
in
September
of
1955.
The
old
building
shown
here was
probably
torn
down
the
following
year.
Notes
Sign
on
building
reads:
Fire
Station
No
28.
Handwritten
on
verso:
Fire
Station
#28.
Subjects
Fire stations--Washington (State)--Seattle
Demolition--Washington (State)--Seattle
Places
United
States--Washington
(State)--Seattle
Hillman
City
(Seattle
,
Wash.)
Digital Collection
Rainier
Valley
Historical
Society
Photograph
Collection
Accession Number
93.001.359
Ordering Information
To order a copy of this photograph, please email Rvhsoffice@aol.com and mention the Accession Number.
Repository
Rainier Valley Historical Society, Seattle
Repository Collection
Hall-Summers
Collection
Physical Description
1
photographic
print:
b&w;
3
3/4
x
6
in.
Type
Image
Digital Reproduction Information
Scanned 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.
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