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| Title | Acor family in crowded apartment, Seattle, ca. 1940 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | ca. 1940 |
| Caption | According to Seattle city directories, George Acor and his family lived in an apartment on Spring Street in the early 1940s. Mr. Acor was a janitor, and his wife ran a coffee shop. A Seattle Post-Intelligencer photographer visited the Acors' apartment and also accompanied the family to an apartment at the new Yesler Terrace development. Yesler Terrace was the city's first low-income housing project.
This photo, taken in the early 1940s, shows Dorothy Acor reaching for dry laundry in the family's crowded apartment on Spring Street. Her husband George holds some of the clothing while their two children, Dorothy Mary and George Junior, sit nearby on the bed. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: Acor, George (& wife), also with children, Dorothy Mary and George James jr., inspect Yesler Terrace (slum clearance project).
Caption by MOHAI staff. |
| Subjects | Families--Washington (State)--Seattle; Laundry--Washington (State)--Seattle; Clotheslines--Washington (State)--Seattle; Stoves--Washington (State)--Seattle; Apartments--Washington (State)--Seattle; Clothes chests--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Personal Names | Acor, Dorothy
Acor, George
Acor, Dorothy Mary
Acor, George, Jr. |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI23744 |
| 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 print made 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. |
