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| Title | Protestors at Atlas Grocery, Seattle, 1947 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1947 |
| Notes | Protestors' signs: Death Blow to Jim Crow. We Fight Jim Crow Every Where, [...N.C.]. We Fight Jim Crow Everywhere, Ship Scalers Union #589 A.F.L. Keep Another Jim Crow [L...] From [...reading]. [...ity] [...nch] [Communist Party?] [...ghts].
Handwritten on image: Pickets at 14th Yesler Grocery store.
Handwritten on sleeve: PICKETS, Seattle, 14th and Yesler Way grocery store.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): January 22, 1947. |
| Subjects | Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (State)--Seattle; African Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle; Grocery stores--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Central District (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.6310.1 |
| 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 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned 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. |
