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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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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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. |
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Woodson Apartments, Seattle, ca. 1910 |
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Woodson Apartments, Seattle, ca. 1910 |
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The Black Heritage Society of Washington State, Inc. |
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Black Heritage Society Collection 2001.17.2.06 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsblackhs/id/26 |
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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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