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Social Issues PhotographsThe Social Issues Collection is an ongoing database of historical images from the Western United States and the Pacific Northwest region. The collection covers a variety of political and social topics. These include women's issues, government, labor organizations such as the Industrial Workers of the World, utopian colonies, ethnic groups such as Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans and Scandinavians, and social and leisure activities including mountaineering, camping and boating. Images document, in addition, the World War II Japanese Internment camps of the Minidoka Relocation Center and the Puyallup Assembly Center known as Camp Harmony. Social Issues Photographs is an ongoing digital collection of historical images primarily from Washington State organized around the following topics: Japanese and Chinese Americans; the World War II Japanese internment camps of Camp Harmony (Puyallup) and Minidoka (Idaho); labor and politics; prohibition; legislative assemblies; women; socialist colonies in Washington State; leisure activities such as camping, hiking and mountaineering. We will be occasionally adding new content to this digital collection, so the images you see will change periodically. In addition, our cataloging staff will continue to supplement the descriptive information attached to each image as new research enhances our knowledge of the material. About the DatabaseThe information for Social Issues Photographs was researched and prepared by the UW Libraries Special Collections Division and Cataloging staff in 2001. Not all the photographs from the collection were included in this database. The images were scanned in grayscale using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600L and saved in .jpg format. Some manipulation of the images was done to present the clearest possible digital image. The scanned images were then linked with descriptive data using CONTENTdm software. The original collection resides in the UW Libraries Special Collections Division as the Social Issues Collection. |
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