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| Title | [Great Northern Wellington disaster] |
| Accession ID number | 1943.42.17464 |
| Object Type | negative, glass-plate |
| Creator | Asahel Curtis |
| Date | March 10, 1910 |
| Rights | Property of the Washington State Historical Society - All Rights Reserved |
| Full Description | Bailet's hotel at Wellington, Washington |
| Subject | Great Northern Railway; Wellington, WA; King County; train wreck; snow; avalanche; disaster; Bailet's Hotel |
| Remarks | Wellington, Washington, located near Stevens Pass in the Cascade Mountains, was the site of one of the worst train disasters in U.S. railroad history. On March 1, 1910 two Great Northern trains, the Spokane passenger local no. 25 and the fast mail train no. 27, were swept off the tracks by an avalanche killing 96 people. |
| Electronic Publisher | Washington State Historical Society |
| Description | glass |
| Condition | fair |
| Dimension | height: 5 inches; width: 7 inches |
| File Characteristics | Negative scanned on a Microtek ArtixScan 1800f scanner at 600 ppi grayscale tiff and resized to a 300 jpeg |
