Sociologist Paul Hatt mapped the residential patterns of Seattle's minority communities in the downtown and central neighborhoods of Seattle using data collected in the 1939 WPA Seattle Residential Survey. These detailed maps show the overlapping concentration of Jewish families as well as Blacks, Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos in the segregated Central District which would become more and more tightly segregated in the decades that followed. Scroll the maps below.

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Sources: The 1939 maps are from Paul Kichener Hatt, "A Study of Natural Areas in the Central Residential District of Seattle" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, 1945)