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Bailey Gatzert School classroom after incarceration of Japanese Americans, Seattle, 1942
Order an ImageMany of the students who attended Bailey Gatzert School in the 1920s and 1930s came from either Chinatown or Niponmachi (Japan Town). The school lost about 45 percent of its student body when Japanese Americans were incarcerated in camps in 1942.
Handwritten on negative: Bailey Gatzert school.
Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle - schools - Gatzert, Bailey (students).
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): June 9, 1942.
Handwritten on negative: Bailey Gatzert school.
Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle - schools - Gatzert, Bailey (students).
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): June 9, 1942.
ID Number: PI25525
Date: 1942
Physical Description: 1 acetate negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.
Credit: MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, PI25525
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