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Image of Truck and railroad car with cargo, Seattle, 1934
PI24029
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Truck and railroad car with cargo, Seattle, 1934

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Since the latter part of the 19th century, Seattle has been a transshipment point for goods traveling between the United States and other Pacific Ocean ports. At the docks, longshoremen transferred the cargo between ships and the railroad. In the 1930s, they did most of this work by hand; by the 1990s, many dockworkers had been replaced by machinery.

Handwritten on sleeve: Strikes - 1934 - Longshore.
ID Number: PI24029
Date: 1934
Physical Description: 1 nitrate negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. ; dichroic fog
Credit: MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, PI24029
Copyright: All Rights Reserved
Subjects: Maritime, Labor and Labor Unions, Railroads

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