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Salvaging Seattle's garbage during Great Depression
Favorite Archival Object: 1931 Hearing Transcript
3/9/20221:39

Seattle Municipal Archives Reference Archivist Jeanie Fisher describes a transcript from a hearing on salvaging waste from Seattle's garbage dumps in 1931.

View more from the "Favorite Archival Object" series here. 

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