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Interview with Mrs. David Webster with letter to Mrs. M.J. Carkeek, Seattle, 1914
Contact MOHAI to OrderIn the 1860s, Asa Mercer, Seattle resident and founder of the University of Washington, traveled to the East Coast twice to recruit women to move to Seattle. The second group of women arrived in Seattle in 1866. Anna Robinson, a member of this group, married fellow shipmate David Webster.
In 1914, Mrs. Webster was interviewed, probably by a member of the Seattle Historical Society (now the Museum of History & Industry), which was founded that year. In her interview Mrs. Webster tells what made her decide to move to the Pacific Northwest and describes various stops on the sailing voyage around the horn to Seattle. Some months later, after looking at the typescript of her interview, Mrs. Webster wrote a letter to Emily Carkeek (Mrs. Morgan J. Carkeek), a founding member of SHS, and expanded on some of her interview comments.
Caption information source: Engle, Flora A.P., The Story of the Mercer Expeditions. Washington Historical Quarterly VI:4 (October 1915), p. 225-237.
In 1914, Mrs. Webster was interviewed, probably by a member of the Seattle Historical Society (now the Museum of History & Industry), which was founded that year. In her interview Mrs. Webster tells what made her decide to move to the Pacific Northwest and describes various stops on the sailing voyage around the horn to Seattle. Some months later, after looking at the typescript of her interview, Mrs. Webster wrote a letter to Emily Carkeek (Mrs. Morgan J. Carkeek), a founding member of SHS, and expanded on some of her interview comments.
Caption information source: Engle, Flora A.P., The Story of the Mercer Expeditions. Washington Historical Quarterly VI:4 (October 1915), p. 225-237.
ID Number: 2018.3.3.134
Date: 1914
Physical Description: 1 document ; 8.5 x 11 in. + 1 letter ; 5 x 8 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.
Credit: MOHAI, 2018.3.3.134
Copyright: No Known Copyright
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