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Trout rearing ponds at Seward Park, Seattle, 1948
Order an ImageIn 1935, during the Great Depression, a Washington Emergency Relief Act work crew built fish rearing ponds at Seattle's Seward Park. The Washington State Department of Game supervised the fish hatchery and, in May 1948, delivered 250,000 young rainbow trout to the Cedar River and other area streams.
Handwritten on image: Seward Park Rearing ponds.
Handwritten on sleeve: Fish - Trout planting, with Les Walters, Art Watkins, Russell Winnett, Paul Shorett, A.F. Immenroth.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): May 21, 1948.
Handwritten on image: Seward Park Rearing ponds.
Handwritten on sleeve: Fish - Trout planting, with Les Walters, Art Watkins, Russell Winnett, Paul Shorett, A.F. Immenroth.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): May 21, 1948.
ID Number: PI23041
Date: 1948
Physical Description: 1 safety film negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.
Credit: MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, PI23041
Copyright: All Rights Reserved