File:Pacific Highway opening, January 29, 1915 (MOHAI 7182).jpg

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English: Pacific Highway opening, January 29, 1915   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Webster & Stevens
Title
English: Pacific Highway opening, January 29, 1915
Description
English: In 1910, as more and more people began to travel by car, automobile clubs in Washington, Oregon, California, and British Columbia organized the Pacific Highway Association. The group chose an official North-South route on existing roads and placed Pacific Highway signs along the route to mark it. Outside of major cities, the roads were often unpaved.

This 1915 photo, taken south of Seattle, shows a group of Tacoma motorists driving along a stretch of the Pacific Highway on its opening day. About two thousand feet of temporary planking laid over the brick paving to protect it while the concrete hardened permitted the opening of the continuous hard surfaced road between Seattle and Tacoma two months early and in time for the annual session of the Washington legislature.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Automobiles; Roads
Depicted place
English: King County (Wash.); Pacific Highway
Date Taken on 29 January 1915
Medium
English: 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard : gelatin, b&w
Dimensions height: 20 cm (7.8 in); width: 24 cm (9.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,20U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,24U174728
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
7182
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
Permission
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Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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