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| Title | Al Hall in Army uniform, possibly at Ft. Lewis, 1918 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1918 |
| Caption | Al Hall was born in Jellico, Kentucky, in 1894, and moved to Seattle in 1899. In 1913 he graduated from Broadway High School, where he was the first African American to play on the football team. After fighting in World War I, he returned to Seattle and worked for the Buffalo Hosiery Company. Later he was a clerk in the King County Assessor's Office. He died in 1964. |
| Notes | Handwritten on verso: Al Hall.
Handwritten on sleeve: Al Hall, Army uniform. |
| Subjects | Military officers--American--Washington (State)
Military uniforms--Washington (State)
African Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle
World War, 1914-1918
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| Personal Names | Hall, Alfred K. |
| Location | United States--Washington (State) |
| Digital Collection | Black Heritage Society Collection |
| Image Number | 2000.13.2.16 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or inquire about permissions, contact: TheBoard@blackheritagewa.org. Please cite the Image Number. |
| Repository | The Black Heritage Society of Washington State, Inc. |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic postcard: b&w; 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
