Priscilla Grace Treat (1902-1979) and Loyal Graef Treat (1906-2004) were the daughters of Harry Whitney Treat (1865-1922) and Olive Marion (Graef) Treat (1869-1945). Harry Treat was a real estate developer who established an electric trolley to promote the suburbs of Ballard, Loyal Heights, and Golden Gardens. Harry and Olive were colorful high society figures in Seattle; their Queen Anne mansion and Loyal Heights farm were filled with vintage English coaches, period costumes, hunting dogs, and purebred English Hackney horses.
This image shows Priscilla (Treat) Van Sickler and her sister Loyal (Treat) Nichols posed sitting in a carriage. In the 1930s, the Olympic Riding and Driving Club was one of six riding academies in the undeveloped area north of Seattle near present day Lake City. It closed in 1966 and the site became the Jackson Golf Course.
Handwritten under photo: Taken in 1932 by Times photographer at Olympic Riding Club in one of our old coaches
Caption information source: "Seattle Neighborhoods: Lake City — Thumbnail History," by David Wilma, HistoryLink.org Essay 3449
ID Number: 2005.19.3
Date: 1932
Physical Description: 1 photographic print pasted on paper : b&w ; 7.5 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. View the finding aid for this collection at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv55932
Credit: MOHAI, Harry W. Treat Family Collections, 2005.19.3
