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| Title | Eleanor Lewis, Seattle, ca. 1928 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1928 |
| Caption | Eleanor Lewis was born in Seattle in 1927 to Juanita Carter and Rev. E. Martin Lewis. The family moved to New York City in 1929, and she attended New York's High School of Music and Art for two years. Eleanor returned to Seattle in 1943 and completed her senior year at Franklin High School, graduating in June of 1944. She attended City College of New York and the University of Washington, studying sociology. She married A. Rudolph (Rudy) Hill on Christmas Eve 1948. They settled in Seattle and had four sons. Eleanor worked for the Postal Service for 13 years. She continued with Federal Employment, working for the Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA) and then as an Equal Opportunity Specialist for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) and the Department of Education. She retired in 1988. After all of their sons graduated from college, Eleanor and Rudy completed their interrupted education, attaining degrees in liberal arts at the Tacoma campus of The Evergreen State College. |
| Notes | Handwritten on image: Eleanor Claire Lewis. Age: 12 months. |
| Subjects | Children--Washington (State)--Seattle
Chairs--Washington (State)--Seattle
African Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Personal Names | Hill, Eleanor Lewis |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Black Heritage Society Collection |
| Image Number | 2001.16.2.06 |
| 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; 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.; trimmed |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned as a 400 ppi TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
