- Collection:
- King County Snapshots: A Photographic Heritage of Seattle and Surrounding Communities
- Title:
- Photo of Ruth Whiteside School of Cosmetology, Seattle, 1945
- Date of Original:
- 1945
- Subject:
- King County (Wash.)--Pictorial works
Seattle (Wash.)--Pictorial works
Historic sites--Washington (State)--King County--Pictorial works
Historic sites--Washington (State)--Seattle-- Pictorial works - People:
- Whiteside, Ruth
- Location:
- United States, Washington, King County, 47.49084, -121.83583
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Seeing a need for an institution to train African-American women as cosmeticians in the Pacific Northwest, Ruth Whiteside - known with respect as "Madame Whiteside" - was one of the youngest and most successful African-American business women in the region.
photo - Local Identifier:
- 162
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/kccollects/id/346
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/iiif/2/kccollects:346/manifest.json
- Extent:
- Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import.
- Original Collection:
- King County Museum Collections
- Contributing Institution:
- Black Heritage Society of Washington State
- Rights:
-
