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Image of Elaine Youch and Elizabeth Holsten leaving Fun! Run Bus, Seattle, June 20, 1972
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Elaine Youch and Elizabeth Holsten leaving Fun! Run Bus, Seattle, June 20, 1972

In this image passengers Elaine Youch, left, and Elizabeth Holsten leap from the summer run "Fun! Run Bus." The Seattle Transit System (now Metro Transit) operated this 10-cent ride between the waterfront and Seattle Center through the month of August 1972. Caption information also derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.190.10.02
Date:1972
Image of Pro-monorail group demonstrating an alternate route to Seahawks Stadium, Seattle, October 14, 2002
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Pro-monorail group demonstrating an alternate route to Seahawks Stadium, Seattle, October 14, 2002

The Seattle Center Monorail is a major tourist attraction and a public transit service that has been the subject of debate since the line was built for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. In 1997 Initiative 41 was introduced, proposing a 54-mile extension to the existing 0.96-mile monorail system. In 2002 a series of panel discussions debating the initiative were nicknamed…
ID Number:2000.107.20021014.CD01.02.001
Date:2002
Image of Foster, Washington, plat map, circa 1905
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Foster, Washington, plat map, circa 1905

This blueprint map depicts the former King County community of Foster, Washington, just south of Seattle city limits. Brothers Joseph and Stephen Foster came from Illinois and settled in the area in 1852, where the Black and White Rivers met. Joseph Foster became a very prominent pioneer who served as an early Washington Territorial legislator, the first superintendent of schools,…
ID Number:2019.3.30
Date:Circa 1905
Image of Seattle-Everett interurban trolley, 1907
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Seattle-Everett interurban trolley, 1907

The Seattle-Everett Interurban Company was organized in 1900, and construction on the electric trolley line began in Ballard in 1901. By 1905, the tracks reached Hall's Lake and in 1910, they were completed to Everett. Passengers traveling between Seattle and Everett changed between the interurban cars and Seattle's local transit system in Ballard.This photo shows Seattle-Everett interurban trolley cars 5…
ID Number:SHS735
Date:1907
Image of Buses in Seattle Transit System's Jefferson Yard, December 15, 1940
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Buses in Seattle Transit System's Jefferson Yard, December 15, 1940

The Jefferson Street garage, at 14th and Jefferson in the Seattle's Central District, was built in 1910 as a streetcar barn. The station was converted to a garage for trolley buses in 1940. Following service reductions in 1963 and 1970, Jefferson garage was closed in July 1970, except for use by overhead line maintenance crews and for vehicle storage. Jefferson…
ID Number:SHS750
Date:1940
Image of City bus, Seattle, December 15, 1940

City bus, Seattle, December 15, 1940

Caption on image: Seattle Transit System, Coach 919, No. 1, 12-15-40. Typed on verso: Modern Seattle trolley coach 1952 [sic].SHS category: Transportation
ID Number:SHS11558
Date:1952
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