A City at Work: Images from the Seattle Municipal Archives Photo Collection

Community Services: Human Services

Description: West Seattle Pipeline. Backfilling by Hand. Unemployment Relief.
Year: 1931
Item No.: 50077
Notes: Over the past century, the City of Seattle has delivered human service programs that responded to the needs and sensibilities of the times. Earlier programs focused largely on health and employment, while more recently, the City has expanded these initiatives to serve low income, homeless, immigrant, senior, and otherwise vulnerable or hard to reach populations.

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