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| Title | Space Needle, early rendering by Earle Duff for the Seattle World's Fair, 1960 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1960 |
| Notes | Stamped on verso: Copy by Roger Dudley, Commercial Photographer, PH. MA.2-8878, RM. 64-Cobb Building, Seattle 1, Washington.
Handwritten on verso: 65768. |
| Historical Notes | The Space Needle was conceived in 1959 by World's Fair Commission chair Edward E. Carlson as a napkin doodle and given to architect John Graham, of John Graham and Co., who produced the final saucer design. Graham was the designer of the nation's first shopping mall, Seattle's Northgate Mall. Credit for the architecture and design also goes to John's partner Victor Steinbrueck, UW engineering professor Al Miller, artist Earle Duff, designer John Ridley, and design partner Nate Wilkinson. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Century 21 Exposition (1962 : Seattle, Wash.); Observation towers--Washington (State)--Seattle; Renderings |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Space Needle (Seattle, Wash.); Duff, Earle |
| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Seattle Photograph Collection
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| Order Number | SEA3398
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Joseph E. Gandy papers. Accession No. 1738-1, Box 6/9 |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin; b&w; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker at 200 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2011. |
