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Aerial view, looking northeast, of the construction of Interstate 5, Lakeview Boulevard section, Seattle, circa 1958

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The 1956 Federal-Aid Highway Act kicked off the Interstate construction program. Completed in the 1960s, Interstate-5 (I-5), of which the Tacoma-Seattle-Everett Freeway forms a part, is the only Interstate highway running from Canada to Mexico.

Written on sleeve: HIGHWAYS, Freeway, Seattle, right-of-way, Lakeview BLVD. section, airview
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): 1958.
ID Number: 1986.5.3992.1
Date: Circa 1958
Physical Description: 1 negative : acetate, b&w ; 4 x 5 in.
Credit: MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, 1986.5.3992.1