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This is Public Housing 10th Anniversary Report, 1949

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This booklet is the combined 1948/1949 report issued by the Housing Authority of the City of Seattle, titled "This is Public Housing, 10th Anniversary Report." The booklet commemorates the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Housing Authority and, using photographs and personal stories, illustrates how the Housing Authority came to be and its work. The booklet includes photographs and stories from Yesler Terrace, a 30-acre site near downtown that was developed as Seattle's first publicly subsidized housing community in 1941. The report also includes operating and income expenses for 1949, as well as summaries and costs of public housing projects all across Seattle.

ID Number: 2012.58.2

Date: 1949

Creator(s): Housing Authority of the City of Seattle, Publisher

Physical Description: 1 annual report (32 p) ; 10.75 x 8.5 in.

Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.

Credit: MOHAI, 2012.58.2

Subjects: Government and Public Services, Homes and Housing, Construction and Urban Planning