I used this source for the current population estimates since the Census Bureau is a well regarded government institution whose job is to count people.
I used this article for the witness account of the bridge sinking on the Disaster! page. The Seattle PI was a well regarded newspaper and the longest running paper in the Seattle area.
This source provided some information on why the bridge sank but was mainly used for my second favorite quote involving whatever it takes to keep the bridge afloat. The I–90 Independent Review Team was a blue ribbon panel convened by Governor Booth Gardner to investigate the sinking of the bridge and reccomend ways to prevent the same accident in the future.
This source is the second most important source in the project, it is an abbreviated outline of the bridge's history and the controversies sorrounding its construction, along with many useful and relevant quotes.
This source was used for the information on the two remaining blueberry farms left over from Bellevue's agricultural days. It is published by the City Parks Department giving it credibility.
This source was pivotal in my arguement that the bridge boosted Seattle's population as it clearly showed a jump in poplulation after the bridge was built. Without it the bulk of the Regional Impact Seattle page would not exsist.
This source was without a doubt the single most important source in my entire project. It is an extensive newspaper article (21 pages when copied into word) written after the bridge sank that essentially outlines the entirety of the bridge's history up to the sinking. It was invaluable and used everywhere in my site. The Seattle PI was a well regarded newspaper which gives this source credit.
The consequences of sinking a bridge. I used this source for the very small tidbit of information at the end of the Disaster! page about the bridge being rebuilt.
History Link was an invaluable resource as it was the one credible secondary source I found other than the City governemt web sites. It is funded by Wasington State and the articles I used also recieved funding from the WSDOT giving it some degree of credibility.
History Link was an invaluable resource as it was the one credible secondary source I found other than the City governemt web sites. It is funded by Wasington State and the articles I used also recieved funding from the WSDOT giving it some degree of credibility.
This is by far the oddest of the articles I cite, it is an article completely unrelated to my topic but it contained a very vital piece of information: the population of Mercer Island in 1939. Without this article I would have been forced to throw out an entire arguement because I had no solid data to back it up.
This article was extremely useful as it literally said the reason the Eastside experienced explosive growth is that the bridge was built. Which is a solid support for my thesis.
This article was mainly used for the best quote in my site. It is the first quote on the disaster page. And since it is from The New York Times it shows that the bridge was famous enough that its destruction was heard across the country.
This article was used for the fact that Homer M. Hadley thought up the bridge design but got very little credit for it until the state named the companion span to the LAcey V. Murrow bridge, the Homer M. Hadley Bridge.
This article was invaluable for giving me information on why a floating bridge had to be built and it couldn't have just been a regular steel truss bridge or even a suspension bridge.
This article was mildly useful to show what most people thought of the bridge, namely that it was very strange.
History Link was an invaluable resource as it was the one credible secondary source I found other than the City governemt web sites. It is funded by Wasington State and the articles I used also recieved funding from the WSDOT giving it some degree of credibility. This article specifically was a valuable source for the history of Bellevue.
History Link was an invaluable resource as it was the one credible secondary source I found other than the City governemt web sites. It is funded by Wasington State and the articles I used also recieved funding from the WSDOT giving it some degree of credibility. This article specifically aided with the history of Mercer Island before the bridge.
These pictures, taken from a variety of sources, serve as the decorative web site banner. I choose them because they went together well showing the history of the bridge from its construction to its collapse to today.
This image collage type thing on the home page of the web site serves strictly for decorative purposes. Vintage Seattle was an invaluable resource for high resolution historical photos and is quite a good blog.
I chose this image because it does an amazingly good job of illustrating the severe damage the bridge sustained when one section of it sank to the bottom of Lake Washington.
This image of a Newspaper article about the sinking of the Floating Bridge is used on the Disaster! page as an aid to the quotes and descripton of the accident.
This graph of the population of Seattle from 1990-2000 is used to illustrate the bridge’s impact on the population of Seattle. It graphically represents the data from the Decenial population table.
This skyline shot is used mostly for decorative purposes but also to illustrate the change seattle has undergone over the last 90 years and since the bridge was built. It is designed to contrast with the 1917 Seattle skyline shot on the page Before The Bridge.
This skyline shot is used mostly for decorative purposes but also to illustrate what Seattle looked like 90 years ago before the bridge was built. It is designed to contrast with the 2007 Seattle skyline shot on the page Regional Impact – Seattle.
This image of Kirkland pre-bridge is an illustration of how different Kirkland was before the bridge and used mainly for decorative purposes.
This image is a picture of Homer M. Hadley and puts a face on the most important man in the floating bridge's history.
This video was used to make the site more interactive and engaging to the viewer while the point could have been made with text and pictures alone, a video is a great way to get people interested and portray a much clearer picture of what happened.
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