File:Postcard of monorail test track, Seattle, 1911 (MOHAI 9968).jpg

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English: Postcard of monorail test track, Seattle, 1911   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Title
English: Postcard of monorail test track, Seattle, 1911
Description
English:

In this image, a portrait of William H. Boyes appears above a test track he demonstrated in 1911 in the tideflats of Seattle. Boyes sold shares in his Pacific Railway Company for the proposed monorail electric system operating passenger and freight trains between Elliott Bay in Seattle and Commencement Bay in Tacoma. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on May 2, 1911, but construction was never completed. Boyes was discovered not to be the inventor as he claimed, was incapable of constructing the monorail, and was forced to repay his stockholders.

Handwritten on recto: Wm H. Boyes, Inventor. Copyright 1919. Caption information source: The Seattle Daily Times, April 5, 1910, page 10; October 20, 1911, page 3 Caption information source: http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/History.html

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Monorail railroads--Washington (State)--Seattle; Transportation--Washington (State)--Seattle
Depicted place
English: United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Date 1919
date QS:P571,+1919-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium
English: 1 photographic postcard: b&w
Dimensions height: 3.5 in (88.9 mm); width: 5.5 in (13.9 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,3.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,5.5U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
9968
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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File:Boyes monorail.jpg
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MOHAI, Seattle Historical Society Collection, SHS16810

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