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Markus and Albert Mayer jewelry store in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, 1898
Soon after striking gold on the banks of the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory, brothers Albert Mayer (1871-1929) and Markus Mayer (1877-1950) established a watch and jewelry making business in Dawson City. Their older brother, Joseph Mayer (1868-1937), started Joseph Mayer Bros. in Seattle, which began by selling souvenir spoons, flatware, and wholesale jewelry, and grew into a major…
ID Number:1979.6792.1
Date:1898
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Portrait of Lucy Lyon, Seattle, circa 1900
Lucinda F. "Lucy" (Kinkead) Lyon (1849-1932) came to Seattle with her husband, Colonel George G Lyon (1841-1902), who was a member of Territorial Governor Watson C. Squire's staff from 1884-1887. A wealthy and prominent leader of society, Lucy was a founding trustee of the Seattle Historical Society (SHS, now MOHAI) in 1914.This portrait of Lucy was taken in Seattle when…
ID Number:1979.6840.4
Date:Circa 1900
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Portrait of Elizabeth Stacy, Seattle, 1886
Real estate investor Martin Van Buren Stacy (1837-1901) and his wife, Elizabeth A. (Briggs) Stacy (1824-1904), were married on Camano Island in 1870 and moved to Seattle shortly thereafter. In 1885 they built their first mansion, at 308 Marion Street. The mansion where Elizabeth died at the northeast corner of Boren and Madison survives, as the University Club. Handwritten on…
ID Number:1979.6840.5
Date:1886
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Portrait of Colonel Granville O. Haller, Seattle, circa 1880
Granville Owen Haller (1819-1897) was a U. S. Army officer who served in the Florida, Mexican, and Civil wars before coming to Washington Territory in 1852 with his wife Henrietta M. Haller (1824-1910) and their children, Alice May (Haller) Nichols (1851-1887), George Morris Haller (1852-1889), Charlotte (Haller) McKee (1854-1932), and Theodore Newell Haller (1864-1930). In 1860 they were stationed at…
ID Number:1979.6840.7
Date:Circa 1880
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Portrait of Henrietta Haller, Seattle, circa 1880
Henrietta Maria (Cox) Haller (1824-1910) was born in Ireland, arriving in New York with her parents in 1837. She married U. S. Army officer Colonel Granville O. Haller (1819-1897) and the couple had four children, Alice May Haller Nichols (1851-1887), George Morris Haller (1852-1889), Charlotte Haller McKee (1854-1932), and Theodore Newell Haller (1864-1930). The family moved to Washington Territory in…
ID Number:1979.6840.8
Date:Circa 1880
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Thomas and Warren French posing inside their grocery store, Seattle, circa 1910
Siblings Irene French Cardiff Witt (1854-1932), Thomas Franklin French (1862-1944), and Warren Harrison French (1868-1922) were all born in Illinois and moved to Seattle. Warren arrived in 1888, and helped fight the 1889 Great Fire. The French brothers are mentioned as part of a group of Seattleites met by Seattle Times reporter T. A. Davies during his 1897 trip to…
ID Number:1979.6841.2
Date:Circa 1910
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Portrait of Irene, Thomas, Warren, and Margie French, Seattle, circa 1910
Siblings Irene French Cardiff Witt (1854-1932), Thomas Franklin French (1862-1944), and Warren Harrison French (1868-1922) were all born in Illinois and moved to Seattle. Warren arrived in 1888, and helped fight the 1889 Great Fire. The French brothers are mentioned as part of a group of Seattleites met by Seattle Times reporter T. A. Davies during his 1897 trip to…
ID Number:1979.6841.12
Date:Circa 1900
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Portrait of Irene, Thomas, George, and Warren French, Seattle, circa 1920
Siblings Irene French Cardiff Witt (1854-1932), Thomas Franklin French (1862-1944), and Warren Harrison French (1868-1922) were all born in Illinois and moved to Seattle. Warren arrived in 1888, and helped fight the 1889 Great Fire. The French brothers are mentioned as part of a group of Seattleites met by Seattle Times reporter T. A. Davies during his 1897 trip to…
ID Number:1979.6841.13
Date:Circa 1920
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Street clock in front of Albert Hansen jeweler, Seattle, circa 1918
Albert Hansen opened a jewelry business in 1883 and continued for about thirty years in various locations in downtown Seattle. This photo shows his store at 1010 Second Avenue, which was in the Leary Building on the northeast corner of Madison and Second. Joseph Mayer and Brothers manufactured many street clocks during the early twentieth century. The photographer Austin Seward…
ID Number:1980.6877.5.41
Date:Circa 1918
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Street clock in front of Albert Hansen jeweler, Seattle, circa 1910
Albert Hansen was one of Seattle's first jewelers, beginning in 1883 and continuing in various locations for thirty years. This photo shows the street clock in front of Hansen's store at 624 First Avenue, on the southeast corner of Cherry and First Avenue. Street clocks such as this one were manufactured by Joseph Mayer and Brothers and often stood in…
ID Number:1980.6877.5.56
Date:Circa 1910