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| Record Series: | Scrapbooks and Albums |
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| Collection: | Washington Emergency Relief Administration, Division 2 Works Project Summaries, 1934-1945 |
| County: | Statewide |
| Reference Number: | AR55-1-0-8_p0210 |
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| Subject Start Date: | 1934 |
| Subject End Date: | 1934 |
| Notes: | Image shows men at work on an urban construction site next to a streetcar line. A ditch with wooden shoring structures runs through the site, which is scattered with boards, piles of dirt, and other construction materials. Visible in the background are a streetcar and a hill covered in buildings and trees. "State of Wash. / W. E. R. A. Dist. # 2 / 17-B7-24 / July 24-1934 / Neg. # 365 / W. Spokane St. + 26 Ave. So. / Sewer" -- handwritten in lower left-hand corner on recto. "K.N." -- handwritten on recto in lower right-hand corner. "West Spokane Street Sewer / (99) This project, which was started on June 8, 1934, and completed on October 15, 1934, involved 1,823 lineal feet of open ditching; 290 feet of tunnel; 3,492 square feet of timbering, etc. WERA paid $7,380.74 in wages alone and the sponsor, the City of Seattle, $5,101.64." -- on typewritten note attached to verso. |
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Shovels
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| Genre Terms: | Photographic prints |
| Extent: | 1 photographic print : b&w ; 8.5 x 9.75 in. (7.5 x 9.75 in. after disbinding) |
| Container: | Box 1, 92-A-97 |
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| Source: | /Record/View/4035D29A992D5F01E4E9C78EF3456209 |
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