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| Title | George and Charles Wright, Seattle, ca. 1922 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1922 |
| Caption | These boys were the sons of George A. Wright and Gertrude Harvey Wright. Charles Wright was born in Seattle in 1918 and graduated from Garfield High School in 1938. He worked as a postal carrier until World War II, when he joined the army. He returned to Seattle after the war and continued working for the postal service. He later moved to California. George Harvey Wright was born in Twin Falls, Idaho, in 1915 and got a business administration degree from the University of Washington. He served in the army during World War II and was wounded in the South Pacific. He married Violet Jamison and worked in the insurance industry. |
| Notes | George was 6 years old and Charles was 4 when this image was taken.
Caption taken from BHS records. |
| Subjects | Children--Washington (State)--Seattle
African Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Personal Names | Wright, George Harvey
Wright, Charles Arthur |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Black Heritage Society Collection |
| Image Number | 2002.19.2.02 |
| 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 print pasted in scrapbook: b&w; 6 x 4 1/4 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. |
