- Collection:
- King County Snapshots: A Photographic Heritage of Seattle and Surrounding Communities
- Title:
- Anti-Chinese riot at Seattle 1886
- Creator:
- Richard Nicol
- Date of Original:
- 1886
- 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 - Location:
- United States, Washington, King County, 47.49084, -121.83583
- Medium:
- documents (object genre)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In March 1886, a mob led by local representatives of the Knights of Labor, rampaged through the streets of Seattle, driving hundreds of local Chinese to the waterfront. Chinese laborers in the hopfields and in local factories, mills and camps, worked harder and longer for less money than white laborers, driving down wages. As violence escalated, the Home Guards were called out and martial law declared. This engraving was published in Harper's Weekly magazine, March 6, 1886.
- Local Identifier:
- 545
# 2001.050 - Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/kccollects/id/407
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/iiif/2/kccollects:407/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:
- Wing Luke Asian Museum (Seattle, Wash.)
- Rights:
-
Anti-Chinese riot at Seattle 1886
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