Seattle at 150 Chapter 5: Wartime (1942-1945)

Relief efforts from the 1930s morphed into wartime programs for military personnel and civil defense as Seattle became a center of wartime industry and military activities. The war effort would reach into all parts of the city government, from parks to law enforcement to public health.

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: FOUNDATIONS 1869-1896
CHAPTER 2: BOOMTOWN 1897-1910
CHAPTER 3: GROWING UP: 1910-1929
CHAPTER 4: NAVIGATING THE GREAT DEPRESSION: 1930-1941
CHAPTER 5: WARTIME: 1942-1945
CHAPTER 6: BECOMING A GLOBAL CITY: 1946-1962
CHAPTER 7: ACTIVISM AND ENGAGEMENT: 1963-1990
CHAPTER 8: BOOMTOWN REDUX: 1991-2019
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Jefferson Park Golf Course, Weekend Celebration
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Chart of veneral disease cases
[Soldiers disembarking the Marine Phoenix at Pier 39, c.1946.]
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Home economics picture of  Cecil Bartley for Meeting Meat Shortages publicity.