This image of children in Weed's Pharmacy was taken at the 50th Anniversary celebration of the pharmacy, located at 2601 South Jackson Street in the Central District of Seattle. The celebration included ice cream and candy for customers.
Melvin Albert (Bert) Weed (1882-1964) began in the pharmacy business in 1898 as a clerk at the Bartell Drug Company. After college he partnered with Albert G. Keene and worked as a pharmacist at Lake Washington Pharmacy. Bert married Keene's daughter Mamie Luella Keene (1881-1970) in 1906, and they had one daughter, Luell Weed Guthrie (1910-1987). Lake Washington Pharmacy became Weed’s Pharmacy in 1910, operating in the same Central District location until Bert’s retirement in 1958. The Weed family was well known in the Seattle community thanks to Bert’s involvement in many community associations, including the Freemasons, the Nile Temple, and the Sons of the American Revolution.
Caption information source: "Druggist Fetes 50th Anniversary," The Seattle Daily Times, July 3, 1952, page 13
ID Number: 1971.5098.9.5
Date: 1952
Physical Description: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 3.5 x 5 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State. View the finding aid for this collection at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv09640
Credit: MOHAI, Collection on Weed's Pharmacy, 1971.5098.9.5
