Transportation Photographs

Transportation Photographs is an ongoing digital collection of photographs depicting various modes of transportation in the Pacific Northwest region and Western United States during the first half of the 20th century. Examples of material included are: automobiles and roads; aviation with emphasis on the Boeing Co.; railroads, such as the Milwaukee Road, Northern Pacific Railway, and Great Northern Railway. Selections from our Ships Collection are also represented. These include images of the many steamships, schooners, and ferries that plied the Puget Sound and Alaskan waters. This is a growing collection. We will occasionally add new images and update records as new information is uncovered by research.

About the Database

The information for Transportation Photographs was researched and prepared by the UW Libraries Special Collections Division and Cataloging staff in 2001. Not all the photographs from the collection were included in this database. The images were scanned in grayscale using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600L and saved in .jpg format. Some manipulation of the images was done to present the clearest possible digital image. The scanned images were then linked with descriptive data using the CONTENTdm program. The original collections reside in the UW Libraries Special Collections Division as the Transportation Collection and the Ships Collection.

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