A WSU Libraries’ digital collection of photos of migrant workers taken by Seattle photographer Irwin Nash is the subject of an essay written by Sandeep Kaushik for the Post Alley website, a new, Seattle-based writers’ collective aimed at helping fill gaps in local journalism and exploring new ways of delivering quality reporting and commentary. The article can be viewed at https://www.postalley.org/2021/03/10/her-name-is-elisia/.
The Libraries is working on a Washington State Library grant to digitize the full collection of 12,500 photos Nash took in the Yakima Valley from 1965-1975. Additional financial support will be provided from numerous donors, some of whom are family members of the laborers documented in the collection.
