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| Title | Seattle Municipal Street Railway ticket, 1940 |
| Photographer | Richard Nicol |
| Date | 1940 |
| Notes | Unpunched ticket signed by "Albert E. Pierce Supt. of Rys. [Railways]." Seattle's Municipal Street Railway System was formed in 1919 when the city purchased the Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power Company. By 1938, the System was old-fashioned, in disrepair and bankrupt. It received a loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1939 and began a modernization program. Reorganized in 1939, the lines were renamed the Seattle Transit System under direction of the Seattle Transportation Commission from 1939-1951 and then the Seattle Transit Commission until 1971, and Metro after 1973. |
| Personal Names | Pierce, Albert E. |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--King County--Seattle; |
| Digital Collection | King County Museum Collections
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| Note About Ownership | This record describes one of more than three hundred artifacts, photographs and documents, submitted by members of the Association of King County Historical Organizations. The King County Collects project took place during the county's sesquicentennial in 2001, to celebrate the shared collection of AKCHO's 205 members. The information presented here is the responsibility of the AKCHO organization which submitted the item for inclusion in the project. |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions, contact The Seattle Municipal Archives, 600 4th Av. Room 104, Seattle, 98104 206-684-8353 |
| Credit Line | Seattle Municipal Archives; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import. |
