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Supports beneath Alaskan Way viaduct near South Washington Street, Seattle, August 2009
The Alaskan Way Viaduct was an elevated highway in Seattle which was completed in 1966 after 16 years of construction and decades of planning. The double-decked highway ran along the Elliott Bay waterfront above the surface street, Alaskan Way, following previously existing railroad lines. The viaduct provided Seattle with its first bypass route around the downtown business district. The viaduct…
ID Number:2017.14.14
Date:2009
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View of the Alaskan Way viaduct and ramps at First Avenue South, Seattle, October 2009
The Alaskan Way Viaduct was an elevated highway in Seattle which was completed in 1966 after 16 years of construction and decades of planning. The double-decked highway ran along the Elliott Bay waterfront above the surface street, Alaskan Way, following previously existing railroad lines. The viaduct provided Seattle with its first bypass route around the downtown business district. The viaduct…
ID Number:2017.14.19
Date:2009
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View underneath the Alaskan Way viaduct at South Main Street and Alaskan Way, Seattle, May 2010
The Alaskan Way Viaduct was an elevated highway in Seattle which was completed in 1966 after 16 years of construction and decades of planning. The double-decked highway ran along the Elliott Bay waterfront above the surface street, Alaskan Way, following previously existing railroad lines. The viaduct provided Seattle with its first bypass route around the downtown business district. The viaduct…
ID Number:2017.14.24
Date:2010
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"Horse car days are gone!" leaflet, 1937
Seattle’s transportation system grew out of a mixture of privately-owned cable car lines, streetcars, and buses. When the city took these over in 1918, it turned out to be a financial disaster. By 1936, the infrastructure was aging, and the system was $4 million in debt. The city explored alternatives and, in 1937, promoted a plan to modernize the system…
ID Number:2018.3.3.14
Date:1937
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Jack Sturgis Air Transport Bureau ticket, circa 1930
This ticket offers a 50¢ credit to be used at any aviation company that is a member of the Jack Sturgis Air Transport Bureau. The bureau was run out of the Municipal Airport (also known as Boeing Field) in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood. Services offered ranged from passenger tickets to Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, to aerial tours over downtown…
ID Number:2018.3.3.24
Date:Circa 1930
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Seattle Electric Company trip guide, 1909
In 1898 the Seattle Electric Company was granted a contract to consolidate the city's 22 separate streetcar lines and private street railways. The SEC was an arm of the national Stone & Webster utility cartel, which also controlled the city’s electrical grid and operated the Puget Sound Electric Railway (PSER), an interurban line linking Tacoma, Seattle, and Everett. Due to…
ID Number:2018.3.3.25
Date:1909
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Gorst Air Transport Air Ferry brochure, circa 1928
Vernon C. Gorst, who previously had founded Pacific Air Transport in 1926, (which provided the first airmail service between Los Angeles and Seattle), established Gorst Air Transport, Inc., sometime in the late 1920s. In addition to providing hourly commuter flights for passengers, the air service carried parcels, letters and small packages. This leaflet advertises Gorst's "Air Ferry" service, a 12-minute…
ID Number:2018.3.3.26
Date:Circa 1928
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Seattle trolley coach brochure, 1940
In 1940, the Transportation Commission of the City of Seattle (now King County Metro) debuted Seattle's trolley bus system, which in 2018 is the second largest in the country. This leaflet announces the new trolley coaches added to Seattle's public transportation system, billed as "America's Most Modern Method of Urban Transportation." Caption information source: "Metro: Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle," by…
ID Number:2018.3.3.27
Date:1940
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Fly on the Flyer advertising leaflet, 1909
The Flyer was an American steamboat that served from 1891-1929 on Puget Sound, a time in which passenger traffic via boat was very high. The Flyer (later the Washington) was able to complete the 28 miles between Seattle and Tacoma in 77 minutes.This brochure lists the Flyer's departure times from both Seattle and Tacoma, and when opened forms the shape…
ID Number:2018.3.3.28
Date:1909
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Ballard-Ludlow Ferry Co. ferry schedule, 1939
The Ballard - Ludlow Ferry Co. was one of several auto and passenger ferry and steamer lines operating on Puget Sound. A subsidiary of Kitsap County Transportation Company, the company operated ferries between Seattle's Ballard neighborhood and Port Ludlow, at the time a logging and sawmill community on the Olympic Peninsula.
ID Number:2018.3.3.29
Date:1939