This image show the 1908 officers of the Seattle Real Estate Association. The individuals are identified as: Standing, from left, George B. Littlefield; [unreadable]; Frank E. Case. Sitting, from left, Robert C. Erskine; George W. Dilling; Robert W. Hill.
The photo is part of a photo album created by Robert C. Erskine. Robert Chase Erskine (1876-1971) came to Seattle in 1899 and became a prominent businessman, elected three times as president of the Seattle Real Estate Association. Having upheld a boyhood pledge to his mother to never drink alcohol, when he died at age 95 he left a six-figure trust fund to promote total abstinence from alcohol in the young. A street in West Seattle, Erskine Way SW, is named for him.
Handwritten beneath image: Officers, Seattle Real Estate Assn., 1908 Identifications written on album page. The unreadable name may be Samuel Collyer, Ervin S. Goodwin, Samuel L. Lemmon, or Herbert S. Turner, all officers in 1908-1909.
Caption information source: The Seattle Times, December 19, 1971, page 78 Caption information source: https://westseattleherald.com/robinson-papers/2011/05/20/west-seattle-all-time-crimes-1932-part-one
ID Number: 1971.5202.34
Date: 1908
Physical Description: 1 photographic print mounted on paper : b&w ; 5.5 x 7.75 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.
