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| Title | Founders of ROOTS picnic, Seattle, ca. 1950 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1950 |
| Caption | In 1972 Arline Steward Yarbrough found this photo of old friends and wanted to get them together again. She and her husband hosted a dinner party at which the idea of an annual reunion took shape. The ROOTS picnic initially took place in Seward Park, but bees and lack of parking eventually forced a change of location to Gasworks Park, where the picnic is still held today. It takes place the Sunday before Labor Day and attracts big crowds. |
| Notes | Handwritten on verso: The photo that inspired the founding of ROOTS [Relatives of Old Timers] 1972. [Back] row: Candace Black, unidentified, Evelyn Bundy Taylor. [...] row: Susie Steward McVey, Louise Gayton Phelps Adams, Willetta Riddle Gayton, Emma Pickford Gayton, Bernice Black Fair, Idelle Vertner, Cecilia [...]. [...] row: Unidentified, Sarai Green [sic] Haith, Arline Steward Yarbrough, Mace[...]. |
| Subjects | Women--Washington (State)--Seattle
African Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Black Heritage Society Collection |
| Image Number | 2001.06.2.99.1 |
| 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: b&w; 8 x 10 in. |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned 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. |
