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Gates of the big lock in the Lake Washington Ship Canal, n.d.
Gates of the big lock in the Lake Washington Ship Canal, n.d.
TitleGates of the big lock in the Lake Washington Ship Canal, n.d.
PhotographerUnknown
Daten. d.
NotesCaption on image: The big lock in the Lake Washington Canal.

On verso of image: There are five gates like those shown on the card in the big lock, four in the small one. Each leaf of the largest gate weighs 20 tons and is 55 feet high and 47 feet wide. The largest leaf in the small lock is 42 feet high and 17 feet wide. The large lock is 80 feet wide and 825 feet long, and the small lock 30 feet wide and 150 feet long.

Filed in: Seattle--Canals and Waterways
Subjects (LCTGM)Locks (Hydraulic engineering)--Washington (State)--Seattle; Postcards
Subjects (LCSH)Hiram M. Chittenden Locks (Seattle, Wash.); Lake Washington Ship Canal (Seattle, Wash.); Ballard (Seattle, Wash.)
Location DepictedUnited States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Digital CollectionSeattle Photograph Collection
Order NumberSEA1866
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RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Repository CollectionSeattle Postcard Collection. PH Coll 798
Object TypePostcard
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from a postcard using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 120 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2002
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