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| Title | Men inside Skid Road flophouse, Seattle, 1950 |
| Photographer | Cameron, Dick |
| Date | 1950 |
| Caption | During the cold winter of 1950, Skid Road residents took shelter in the flophouses near Pioneer Square. Men would pay 30 cents for a bed in a poorly heated dormitory room. Here men are warming up around the single stove with laundry drying above their heads. |
| Notes | Handwritten on negative: Skidrow Flophouse.
Handwritten on sleeve: SEATTLE, SKIDROAD, Flophouse.
Caption information source: P-I research files.
Date photograph was published the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: February 1, 1950. |
| Subjects | Lodging houses--Washington (State)--Seattle; Interiors--Washington (State)--Seattle; Poor persons--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Pioneer Square (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.11829.1 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
