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Image of Historian Murray Morgan, Seattle, 1974
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Historian Murray Morgan, Seattle, 1974
Author and historian Murray Morgan was born in Tacoma in 1916. He taught a Northwest history course at Tacoma Community College for twelve years and wrote over twenty books, including his most well-known Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle, published in 1951. He died in 2000.This portrait of the author was taken by Josef Scaylea. Scaylea (1913-2004) worked for…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.245
Date:1974
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