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Aerial of Boeing Plant #2 looking southeast, Seattle, 1943

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Boeing's Plant #2 was built in 1936 in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood next to the Duwamish River, with additional construction in 1941. The main saw manufacturing of iconic planes like the B-17 "Flying Fortress" bombers, B-29 "Superfortress" bombers, B-52 bomber, and the 737. A crucial site of production during World War II, the plant was camouflaged at one point during the war to look like a residential neighborhood. Due to leaked contaminants over the site's history, the building was demolished in 2011, and Boeing pay $2 million to clean up pollutants and restore the river's shoreline.

This aerial photo documents the plant during World War II.

Handwritten on negative: Boeing plant #2. Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle - Boeing Company - #2 - airview.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): August 17, 1943.

Caption information source: "Boeing Company, Plant #2, Georgetown, Seattle, WA," PCAD, https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/15162/.
ID Number: PI23924
Date: 1943
Physical Description: 1 nitrate negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.
Credit: MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, PI23924
Copyright: All Rights Reserved