Photo collage by Bridgette Huhtala. Source photos courtesy Garfield High/MOHAI/UW Library Digital Collection.
In the heart of the Central District, James A. Garfield High School has educated a century’s worth of students in its terra-cotta-studded edifices. But the institution’s own history serves as a crash course in Seattle’s messy past—and a who’s-who of the city’s luminaries.
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When the school eventually known as Garfield first opened its doors in the early 1920s, its students hailed from varied backgrounds, including those of Jewish, Japanese, and Italian descent. But during World War II, the U.S. government forcibly sent many of those Japanese families away to incarceration camps.
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