Snowplow near Stevens Pass, ca. 1925
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Created Date | ca. 1925 |
Description | Stevens Pass, Washington, usually gets about 400 to 500 inches of snow each winter, although it snowed 800 inches during the winter of 1996-97. Road crews and railroad workers have had to work continually to keep the ways clear.This Lee Pickett photo, probably taken during the 1920s, shows a Great Northern Railway Snow King rotary snowplow at Scenic, near Stevens Pass at the summit of the Cascade Mountains. The pointed front end of the electrically-powered car pushes the snow aside and the large fans on either side blow it away. |
Creator | Pickett Photo Co. |
Partner | University of Washington |
Contributing Institution | University of Washington |
Subjects | Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)Railroad snowplowsSnowSnow removal |
Location | Scenic (Wash.)Stevens Pass (Wash.) |
Type | image |
Format | image photograph Scanned from original photograph using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 4 |
URL | http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/6446 |
Rights | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle |