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| Title | Mothers and babies having pictures taken, Seattle, May 14, 1944 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1944 |
| Caption | On a bright Sunday in May 1944, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Seattle Photographic Society cosponsored the Mother's Day Outdoor Portrait Gallery in Volunteer Park. Fifty-three volunteer photographers snapped portraits of 1, 091 mothers and their children to send to husbands, fathers and sons serving in World War II military units overseas.
This May 14, 1944 photo shows some of the photographers and their subjects in Volunteer Park at a wartime Mother's Day photo shoot. Each of the finished portraits carried greetings and best wishes from the family, the cosponsors, the photographer and the people of Seattle. |
| Notes | Caption by MOHAI staff.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): May 15, 1944. |
| Subjects | Mothers & children--Washington (State)--Seattle; Holidays--Washington (State)--Seattle; Mother's Day; World War, 1939-1945 |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Capitol Hill (Seattle, Wash.)
Volunteer Park (Seattle, Wash. |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI23411 |
| 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 safety film 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. |
