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Streetcar wreck in front of Toby Building, Seattle, 1917
Streetcar wreck in front of Toby Building, Seattle, 1917
TitleStreetcar wreck in front of Toby Building, Seattle, 1917
PhotographerUnknown
Date1917
CaptionCar #107 has jumped the tracks at Rainier Avenue and Edmunds Street. Details of the accident are not clear since in normal operations two steetcars would not have been operated so close together. It does appear, however, that the rear end of the front car #111 has been knocked slightly off the rear truck. A rock or an obstruction in the northbound tracks at Edmunds Street could have caused the front truck of Car #107 to jump across to the southbound tracks.
NotesLettering on car reads: Rainier Beach. Please have exact fare ready.

Caption taken from RVHS records.
SubjectsStreet railroads--Washington (State)--Seattle
Street railroad employees--Washington (State)--Seattle
Street railroad accidents--Washington (State)--Seattle
PlacesUnited States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Columbia City (Seattle, Wash.)
Digital CollectionRainier Valley Historical Society Photograph Collection
Accession Number93.001.216
Ordering InformationTo order a copy of this photograph, please email Rvhsoffice@aol.com and mention the Accession Number.
RepositoryRainier Valley Historical Society, Seattle
Repository CollectionHall-Summers Collection
Physical Description1 photographic print: b&w; 3 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.
TypeImage
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned 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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