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Noodles Smith and three friends with vintage car, Seattle, ca. 1935
Title
Noodles
Smith
and
three
friends
with
vintage
car
,
Seattle
,
ca.
1935
Photographer
Unknown
Date
ca. 1935
Caption
E.
Russell
"Noodles"
Smith
was
born
in
Missouri
and
came
to
Seattle
in
1909.
He was a
well-known
nightclub
proprietor
,
running
the
Golden
West
Club
during
the
1920s
and the
Black
and
Tan
Club
in the
1930s.
He
retired
from the
nightclub
business
around
1940
and
devoted
his
time
to
real
estate
and
philanthropy.
Notes
Handwritten
on
sleeve:
4
men
(2
beside
car)
with
car
-
"Noodles"
Smith
at
wheel.
Car
may
be a
Stutz
Bearcat
or a
1914
Mercer
Raceabout
(Source:
Seal
Cove
Auto
Museum
website)
Caption
information
source:
BHS
records.
Courtesy
of
Department
of
Records
&
Archives
,
State
of
Washington.
Subjects
Automobiles--Washington (State)--Seattle
Houses--Washington (State)--Seattle
African Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle
Personal Names
Smith
,
E.
Russell
Location
United
States--Washington
(State)--Seattle
Digital Collection
Black
Heritage
Society
Collection
Image Number
1997.17.2.50
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
3/4
x
9
1/2
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.
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