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- Collection:
- King County Snapshots: A Photographic Heritage of Seattle and Surrounding Communities
- Title:
- Protestors [sic] at Atlas Grocery, Seattle, 1947
- Creator:
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Date of Original:
- 1947
- Subject:
- African Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle
Grocery trade--Washington (State)--Seattle
Picketing--Washington (State)--Seattle
Signs and signboards--Washington (State)--Seattle
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (State)--Seattle - Location:
- United States, Washington, King County, 47.49084, -121.83583
United States, Washington, King County, Seattle, 47.60621, -122.33207
United States, Washington, Seattle, Central District - Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Description:
- Protestors' [sic] 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.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Local Identifier:
- Image Number: 1986.5.6310.1
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/imlsmohai/id/44
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/iiif/2/imlsmohai:44/manifest.json
- Rights Holder:
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved
- Additional Rights Information:
- To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@seattlehistory.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph.
- Extent:
- 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.
1 acetate negative: b&w ; 4 x 5 in. - Original Collection:
- Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI), Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection (1986.5.6310.1)
- Contributing Institution:
- Museum of History and Industry (Seattle, Wash.)
- Rights: