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Boeing airplane and Kenworth truck, 1937
For many years, Boeing and Kenworth have been important Seattle-area industries. In this 1937 photo, a United Air Lines Boeing Model 247 and a Kenworth gasoline truck sit on the tarmac at a Seattle airport. The twin-engine transport plane carried ten passengers, their luggage, and 400 pounds of mail on routes along the west coast and between San Francisco and…
ID Number:1983.10.13696.1
Date:1937
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Boeing airplane and Kenworth truck, 1937
For many years, Boeing and Kenworth have been important Seattle-area industries. In this 1937 photo, a United Air Lines Boeing Model 247 and a Kenworth gasoline truck sit on the tarmac at a Seattle airport. The twin-engine transport plane carried ten passengers, their luggage, and 400 pounds of mail on routes along the west coast and between San Francisco and…
ID Number:1983.10.13696.3
Date:1937
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Kenworth Touring Motor Coach, Seattle, circa 1937
Kenworth Truck Company, now a subsidiary of Paccar, has been manufacturing medium and heavy-duty trucks near Seattle since 1916. The company also made fire trucks, and transit and school buses. In 1937 and 1938 Kenworth built five Kenworth Touring Motor Coaches. As of 2009, three of those are still in existence -- one in Sitka, Alaska; one in Montana; and…
ID Number:1983.10.13738
Date:Circa 1937
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Frederick & Nelson window titled, "Women at Work for Victory," 1942
During World War II, Seattle's Frederick & Nelson department store regularly supported the Allied war effort in its display windows.The window in this 1944 photo celebrated the women who built planes at Boeing and worked in other war industries. The mannequins wear the kind of clothing which women wore in the factories. On the back wall, posters push for higher…
ID Number:1983.10.14449.7
Date:1942
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New dock at the Port of Seattle, August 8, 1942
When the United States entered entered World War II, Seattle became a busy port again. Hooverville, home to many unemployed people during the Depression, was replaced by a large new pier.In this photo, taken in 1942, the new dock is under construction at the Port of Seattle. Webster & Stevens number: 44-392
ID Number:1983.10.14632.1
Date:1942
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Kenworth employees at lunch break, Seattle, June 15, 1944
The Kenworth Motor Truck Company got its start building heavy-duty trucks for the timber industry. During World War II, the Seattle plant manufactured parts for the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and B-29 Super Fortress. The factory at Yale and Mercer streets was divided by a fence down the middle of the facility to separate the work being done for Boeing…
ID Number:1983.10.14851.10
Date:1944
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Worker inside Kenworth plant, Seattle, June 15, 1944
The Kenworth Motor Truck Company got its start building heavy-duty trucks for the timber industry. During World War II, the company participated in many war-related production contracts. Beginning in 1943, Kenworth began making components for the Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" bomber and the B-29 "Super Fortress" at its Seattle plant. Three shifts of workers carried out subassembly work on the…
ID Number:1983.10.14851.14
Date:1944
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Kenworth employees playing table tennis, Seattle, June 15, 1944
The Kenworth Motor Truck Company got its start building heavy-duty trucks for the timber industry. During World War II, the Seattle plant manufactured parts for Boeing planes.This 1944 photo shows Kenworth employees playing table tennis, or ping-pong, outside the Seattle factory at Yale and Mercer streets. Note that the employees are predominantly women; during World War II, many industries employed…
ID Number:1983.10.14851.15
Date:1944
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Kenworth workers posing with airplane part, Seattle, June 15, 1944
The Kenworth Motor Truck Company got its start building heavy-duty trucks for the timber industry. During World War II, the company participated in many war-related production contracts. Beginning in 1943, Kenworth began making components for the Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" bomber and the B-29 "Super Fortress" at its Seattle plant. Three shifts of workers carried out subassembly work on the…
ID Number:1983.10.14851.16
Date:1944
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Berger Engineering Works employee with machinery, Seattle, circa 1944
In 1932, Knute Berger started Berger Engineering Works, Inc. to build rugged equipment for shipyards, loggers, and the U.S. Navy. In 1962, Bergen Engineering merged with the company started by Edmund Smith, inventor of the salmon-butchering machine, becoming Smith Berger Manufacturing Corporation. In June, 1983 the company reorganized as Smith Berger Marine, Inc.In this image an unidentified Bergen Engineering Works…
ID Number:1983.10.14958.3
Date:Circa 1944