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Title	Space Needle & new street light; View east on Thomas
Identifier	spl_wl_sec_01719
Description	Sermons from Science Building and Space Needle, Century 21 Exposition (Seattle World's Fair). On the Sermons from Science building: "True brick panels, without any backing and weighing up to a ton, were attached to steel H-Columns to provide the finish interior and exterior walls of the Sermons from Science Building (architects: Johnson, Nesland & Sibold; general contractor: Gwinn Construction Co.). The panels, up to 5x9 ft. each, are made of Inca ceramic brick with holes for the placement of reinforcing steel. Exterior sides for one portion of the structure were glazed and fired in a cobalt-blue finish. The bricks were laid at the manufacturer's Newcastle plant and installed by the brickmasons on the building site, where the 2,000-lb. panels were lifted by a special suction cup device.--Builders Brick Co., 3900 Ninth S., Seattle. (No. 3)" (An Architect's Guidebook to the Seattle World's Fair. Seattle, Pacific Builder and Engineer, April 1962, p. 46.) On the Space Needle: “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)
Subjects (LCSH)	Century 21 Exposition (1962 : Seattle, Wash.) Space Needle (Seattle, Wash.) Sermons from Science Pavilion (Century 21 Exposition, 1962, Seattle, Wash.) Exhibitions--Washington (State)--Seattle Exhibition buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle Lenggenhager, Werner Building--Washington (State)--Seattle Street lighting--Washington (State)--Seattle Traffic signs and signals--Washington (State)--Seattle Second Avenue (Seattle, Wash.) Moody Institute of Science Religion and science--Washington (State)--Seattle
Photographer	Lenggenhager, Werner
Architect	Johnson, Nesland & Sibold John Graham and Company
Date	1962-04-05
Period	Before the Fair
Notes	Title taken from handwritten caption on verso. Date stamped on verso.
Digitization Specifications	Master image scanned on Epson 10000 XL flatbed at 600 ppi, 24 bit color, saved as TIFF file.
File Format	image/jp2
Collection	Century 21 Digital Collection
Contributing Institution	The Seattle Public Library
Rights Management	To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions, email jodee.fenton@spl.org or call 206-386-4610.
Type (DCMI)	image
Item Type	Photographs
Source	Original: 8 x10 b/w photographic print
Date created	2012-01-22