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Hydroplane Slo-Mo-Shun IV, Seattle, 1952
One of the highlights of Seattle's annual summer festival, Seafair, is hydroplane racing. Hydroplanes are racing boats built to glide across the water instead of through it. One of the most popular is seen here, the Slo-Mo-Shun IV, which set speed records and brought enthusiasm for the sport to Seattle in the early 1950s. "Slo-Mo" is currently on display at…
ID Number:1986.5.14163.1
Date:1952
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Boating season opening day parade, looking west, Seattle, May 2, 1958
A yearly tradition since 1920, the Seattle Yacht Club's Opening Day parade through the Montlake Cut is a festive celebration of the area's water activities. This view, looking west, shows boats of all shapes and sizes lining up to pass through the Montlake Cut and the raised Montake bridge to the waters of Portage Bay and Lake Union. The University…
ID Number:1986.5.14384.2
Date:1958
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Boating season opening day parade, looking southwest, Seattle, May 2, 1958
A yearly tradition since 1920, the Seattle Yacht Club's Opening Day parade through the Montlake Cut is a celebration of the area's water activities. This view, looking west, shows boats of all shapes and sizes passing through the Montlake Cut and the raised Montake bridge to the waters of Portage Bay and Lake Union. It was festive event for both…
ID Number:1986.5.14384.4
Date:1958
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Aerial view of Washington State coast, with a tugboat pulling logs, 1959
This aerial view, taken from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter, shows a tugboat pulling a log raft around a rugged point of coastline, probably in Washington State. Handwritten on sleeve: WASHINGTON STATE, Coast, Coast Guard airviews. Date photograph was filed by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): May 13, 1959.
ID Number:1986.5.15526.10
Date:1959
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Tip Toppers beauty queens posing with boys, Seattle, April 8, 1961
Begun as the Seattle Timberliners around 1947, the Seattle Tip Toppers' Club, a non-profit social organization for tall persons, has been part of Tall Clubs International (TCI) since 1954. Minimum height requirements for membership in the club are 5’10” for women and 6’2” for men.In this image the newly crowned "Queen of Height," Maureen Sims, center, stands with her two…
ID Number:1986.5.42073.1
Date:1961
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Puget Sound Navigation Company brochure, circa 1909
The Puget Sound Navigation Company (PSNC) was founded by Charles E. Peabody in 1898. It operated a fleet of steamboats and ferries on Puget Sound in Washington and the Georgia Strait in British Columbia. Known colloquially as the Black Ball Line, the PSNC achieved a "virtual monopoly" on cross-sound traffic in the 1930s but began to struggle following World War…
ID Number:1987.61.1
Date:Circa 1909
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Boeing Marine Systems brochure, circa 1972
In the mid-twentieth century Seattle's aerospace giant, The Boeing Company, saw a market in fast ferries. The company began adapting many systems used in jet airplanes for passenger-carrying waterjet-propelled hydrofoils. Boeing Marine Systems (BMS) built their first hydrofoil at the Renton plant in 1960, and manufactured about 8 hydrofoils for the U. S. military, and 28 that were used in…
ID Number:1987.72.7
Date:Circa 1972
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Crowd at the Anderson shipyard, July 3, 1918
In 1907, Captain John Anderson joined with the owners of the Bartsch & Tompkins shipyard at Houghton, Washington to found Anderson Shipbuilding Corporation. With the outbreak of World War I in Europe in 1914 and the opening of the Lake Washington Ship Canal in 1917, Anderson modernized the yard and started building larger ships. In 1918, the shipyard built four…
ID Number:1989.10.4
Date:1918
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Launching of the ferry "Issaquah," 1914
In 1914, the Anderson Steamboat Company launched the ferry "Issaquah." The vessel was one of the first in the Pacific Northwest designed to carry automobiles as well as horsedrawn vehicles. Until 1918, the "Issaquah" sailed between Leschi, Mercer Island and Newport, where it linked up with the new highway to North Bend. The "Issaquah" could also be rented for excursions…
ID Number:1989.10.5
Date:1914
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Seattle Harbor Tours brochure, circa 1965
Captain Lynn Hilbert Campbell (1911-2013) moved to Seattle during the Depression, where he worked on a freighter between Seattle and Alaska. According to his obituary, after World War II, Mr. Campbell started a tugboat business in Elliott Bay. In 1949, he formed the Spring Street Water Taxi company, which ferried crews and supplies out to ships anchored in Puget Sound.…
ID Number:1989.68.2
Date:Circa 1965