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Title	View of Space Needle crowd; Monorail train in back
Identifier	spl_wl_exp_00348
Description	Crowds in front of Space Needle, with Monorail in background, Century 21 Exposition (Seattle World's Fair). “The Space Needle, a modernistic totem of the Seattle World’s Fair, was conceived by Eddie Carlson as a doodle in 1959 and given form by architects John Graham Jr., Victor Steinbrueck, and John Ridley. When King County declined to fund the project, five private investors, Bagley Wright, Ned Skinner, Norton Clapp, John Graham Jr., and Howard S. Wright, took over and built the 605-foot tower in less than a year.” (Walt Crowley, “Space Needle (Seattle).” HistoryLink.org, http://historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=1424) The Alweg Monorail was constructed for the Century 21 Exposition (Seattle World's Fair) to carry passengers between downtown Seattle and the exposition grounds.
Subjects (LCSH)	Century 21 Exposition (1962 : Seattle, Wash.) Space Needle (Seattle, Wash.) Exhibitions--Washington (State)--Seattle Exhibition buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle Lenggenhager, Werner Monorail railroads--Washington (State)--Seattle Alweg Rapid Transit Systems of Washington State Capitol Hill (Seattle, Wash.) John Graham and Company
Subject	Space Needle Monorail
Photographer	Lenggenhager, Werner
Architect	John Graham and Company
Date	1962-03-25
Period	Before the Fair
Notes	Title taken from handwritten caption on verso. Date stamped on verso.
Folder	Crowds
Measurements	25 x 20 cm
Digitization Specifications	Master image scanned on Epson 10000 XL flatbed at 600 ppi, 24 bit color, saved as TIFF file. Photoshop used to reduce access image to 600 pixels on long edge; master image file size: 84,349,752 bytes.
File Format	image/jp2
Collection	Century 21 Digital Collection
Contributing Institution	The Seattle Public Library
Rights Management	For information about rights and reproduction, visit http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/rights
Type (DCMI)	image
Item Type	Photographs
Source	Original: 8 x10 b/w photographic print
Date created	2011-05-10