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Crowd outside Fryes Packing House Market, Seattle, 1943
Order an ImageLong lines formed at meat markets throughout the country during World War II. Every month each family in the country received food rationing coupons based on equal sharing, each consumer was granted an equal ration per month. Here Frye & Company's retail store at 2203 Airport Way serves shoppers waiting to use their monthly meat ration coupons.
Signs in image: Fryes Packing House Market - Frye & Company.
Handwritten on negative: Fryes Meat Market lineup.
Handwritten on sleeve: Crowds - meat buying (Fryes Market).
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): March 20, 1943.
Signs in image: Fryes Packing House Market - Frye & Company.
Handwritten on negative: Fryes Meat Market lineup.
Handwritten on sleeve: Crowds - meat buying (Fryes Market).
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): March 20, 1943.
ID Number: PI28112
Date: 1943
Physical Description: 1 acetate negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. ; stained
Credit: MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, PI28112
Copyright: All Rights Reserved
Subjects:
World War II, 1941-1945 (WWII)
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