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2000.107.190.08.01
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New bus for Rainier Valley system, Seattle, March 3, 1937
Order an ImageThis image shows the first of the new buses for the Rainier Valley system being tried out on Aurora Avenue after it arrived from the Twin Coach Company of Kent, Ohio. Two of the Seattle Transit System's (later Metro Transit) orange-colored 31-passenger buses went in to service on March 3, 1937.
Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number: 2000.107.190.08.01
Date: 1937
Physical Description: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 6.5 x 9 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant.
Credit: MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, 2000.107.190.08.01
Copyright: All Rights Reserved
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