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Floating Bridge and Lake Washington, 1953 (

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Creator

Ted Lewy

Title

Floating Bridge and Lake Washington, 1953

Description

The postcard features a watercolor painting by Ted Lewy showing the Lacey Murrow floating bridge (also known as I-90). Transcribed from postcard: ""Lake Washington Floating Bridge is the largest floating bridge in the world. Floating length, 6,561 feet. Each floating section of concrete is 315 feet long, 60 feet wide, 14 feet deep, and weighs 45 1/2 tons.""

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Date

1953

Collection

Seattle Public Library

	Location	Seattle , United States of America
	Coordinates	47° 36′ 24″ N, 122° 19′ 58″ W
	Established	1890
	Website	www.spl.org
	Authority file	: Q7442157 VIAF: 147059007 ISNI: 0000000107435179 LCCN: n50059684 NRHP: 82004253 GND: 4841883-3 WorldCat

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This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by Seattle Public Library as part of a cooperation project. The donation was facilitated by the Digital Public Library of America, via its partner Northwest Digital Heritage.

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DPLA identifier: 0e766c827ebbd3d50b420c8b78a82879
Seattle Public Library identifier: spl_pc_19010

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This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart and the copyright renewal logs. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.

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