Woodson Apartments, Seattle, ca. 1910

The Woodson Apartments, located at 1820 24th Avenue in Seattle, were built by Zacharias and Irene Woodson in 1908. It was the first apartment building in the city for African American tenants. The Woodsons were anticipating an increased demand for housing due to the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposit...

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Format: Still Image
Language:unknown
Published: 1910
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Apartment houses > Washington (State) > Seattle
African Americans > Washington (State) > Seattle
Yukon
Pacific
Alaska
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spelling ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:imlsblackhs/26 2023-05-15T18:48:49+02:00 Woodson Apartments, Seattle, ca. 1910 United States--Washington (State)--Seattle ca. 1910 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard: b&w; 6 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. Scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsblackhs/id/26 unknown Black Heritage Society Collection 2001.17.2.06 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsblackhs/id/26 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/ All rights reserved. For information on permissions for use and reproductions pleasevisit UW Libraries Special Collections Use Permissions page:http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/permission-for-use The Black Heritage Society of Washington State, Inc. Apartment houses--Washington (State)--Seattle African Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle Photograph 1910 ftuwashingtonlib 2018-04-21T22:37:38Z The Woodson Apartments, located at 1820 24th Avenue in Seattle, were built by Zacharias and Irene Woodson in 1908. It was the first apartment building in the city for African American tenants. The Woodsons were anticipating an increased demand for housing due to the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. During the fair, the Woodsons were the proprietors of both these apartments and another rooming house. They stayed in the business until the 1930s. The building is known today as the Cascade View Apartments. Handwritten on image: Woodson Apt. 24 ave. Caption information source: BHS records. Still Image Alaska Yukon University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Yukon Pacific
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topic Apartment houses--Washington (State)--Seattle
African Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle
spellingShingle Apartment houses--Washington (State)--Seattle
African Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle
Woodson Apartments, Seattle, ca. 1910
topic_facet Apartment houses--Washington (State)--Seattle
African Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle
description The Woodson Apartments, located at 1820 24th Avenue in Seattle, were built by Zacharias and Irene Woodson in 1908. It was the first apartment building in the city for African American tenants. The Woodsons were anticipating an increased demand for housing due to the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. During the fair, the Woodsons were the proprietors of both these apartments and another rooming house. They stayed in the business until the 1930s. The building is known today as the Cascade View Apartments. Handwritten on image: Woodson Apt. 24 ave. Caption information source: BHS records.
format Still Image
title Woodson Apartments, Seattle, ca. 1910
title_short Woodson Apartments, Seattle, ca. 1910
title_full Woodson Apartments, Seattle, ca. 1910
title_fullStr Woodson Apartments, Seattle, ca. 1910
title_full_unstemmed Woodson Apartments, Seattle, ca. 1910
title_sort woodson apartments, seattle, ca. 1910
publishDate 1910
url http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsblackhs/id/26
op_coverage United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
geographic Yukon
Pacific
geographic_facet Yukon
Pacific
genre Alaska
Yukon
genre_facet Alaska
Yukon
op_source The Black Heritage Society of Washington State, Inc.
op_relation Black Heritage Society Collection
2001.17.2.06
http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsblackhs/id/26
op_rights http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
All rights reserved.
For information on permissions for use and reproductions pleasevisit UW Libraries Special Collections Use Permissions page:http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/permission-for-use
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