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| Title | International District street scene looking northeast, Seattle, 1934 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1934 |
| Caption | In the early 1900s, Chinese businesses began moving to the area around King Street. By the 1920s, most of Seattle's Chinese residents lived and worked there. Other Asian immigrants soon followed, notably Japanese and Filipinos attracted by the area's inexpensive housing and storefronts for their own businesses and restaurants. By the late 1930s, Chinatown was established as a distinct neighborhood along with the West Coast's second largest "Japan Town" on and around Yesler Way.
This view looks northeast on Washington Street. The South End Public Market, located at 302 Washington Street in 1934, is visible on the left side of the street. |
| Notes | Signs visible in image: Fashion Hotel, Laundry and Dry Cleaning Agency, South End Public Market, Garage, Wong Tailors
Handwritten on sleeve: SEATTLE, Chinatown district
Caption information source: Seattle Chinatown/International District website, http://www.cidbia.org/history
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): November 1, 1934. |
| Subjects | Automobiles--Washington (State)--Seattle; Business districts--Washington (State)--Seattle; Commercial streets--Washington (State)--Seattle; International District (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Places | United States—Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.7828.4 |
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| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI). |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 nitrate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from film negative using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 5. . |
