Seattle: Gateway to the Northwest

9.0
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 9 min
  • Premiere: 1940. February 17.

This Traveltalk series short visits Seattle and other areas in the state of Washington. Seattle was a small city until the 1897 gold rush. During World War I, it served as a major shipping center for lumber that was transported through the Panama Canal to East Coast shipbuilders. We also visit a Weyerhaeuser lumber camp located between Longview and Tacoma, and the city of Everett, where lumber is used in the burgeoning aircraft industry.

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James A. FitzPatrick

Narrator (voice)