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| Title | Machinery paving Hudson Street near 53rd, Seattle, June 13, 1949 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1949 |
| Caption | This project was typical of the grading and paving necessary to have cement streets in the hilly Rainier Valley. This particular project was in front of the home of attorney Phil Weiss and his wife, Marion. They built the home on Hudson Street in 1928 and lived with the dirt, gravel and dust for 21 years. |
| Notes | Handwritten on verso: 6/13/49. They graded & paved on Hudson, in front of our house on 6/13. Phil & Marion Southard Weiss built the house in 1928, 21 yrs prior to paving. Phil. |
| Subjects | Graders (Earthmoving machinery)--Washington (state)--Seattle
Road construction--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Columbia City (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Rainier Valley Historical Society Photograph Collection |
| Accession Number | 93.001.108 |
| 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 1/2 x 5 3/4 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. |
