Overview of the Collection
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Repository Name:
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Museum of History &
Industry
Sophie Frye Bass
Library
2700 24th Avenue East
Seattle, WA 98112
Phone: 206-324-1126
URL: http://www.seattlehistory.org
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Collection Number:
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2008.3.1
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Title:
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Collection of Seattle Historical
Society Founders' Day and other events photographs
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Dates:
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1894-1925 (inclusive)
1911-1925 (bulk)
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Quantity:
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127 photographs, including two
albums
2 boxes
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Languages:
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Collection materials are in
English.
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Summary:
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Photographs of Seattle Historical
Society members at annual Founders' Day celebrations and other
events.
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Location of Collection:
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2B.1.1
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Historical Note
The beginnings of the Seattle Historical Society date to November 13,
1911--the 60th anniversary of the Denny Party landing at Alki beach--when
pioneer builder and contractor Morgan Carkeek and his wife Emily hosted the
first “Founders' Day” ball at their First Hill mansion on Boren Street. Guests
were requested to arrive in historic costumes related to early Seattle; women
arrived in period dresses, in Native American costume, or dressed as historic
figures like Princess Angeline. The party became an annual, invitation-only
event, to which guests were asked to bring artifacts or documents related to
Seattle history. The first two items donated to the Society’s collection were a
copy of Arthur Denny’s 1888 memoir
Pioneer Days on Puget Sound, and Thomas Prosch’s biography
of pioneers Dr. David S. and Catherine T. Maynard. Professor Edmond S. Meany
gave the Society use of a room at the University of Washington, and space in a
fireproof room for storage. The Seattle Historical Society was incorporated on
January 8, 1914, with the original membership limited to white settlers and
their descendents. The founding trustees were Judge George Donworth, Judge C.
H. Hanford, Judge R. B. Albertson, Lawrence J. Colman, Edmond S. Meany, and
Margaret Lenora Denny; the articles of incorporation were signed by Emily
Carkeek, Cannie Ford Trimble, Charlotte Haller McKee, Virginia McCarver Prosch,
and Flora Thornton Prosser.
Later known as the Historical Society of Seattle and King County, the
group worked to open a museum that would tell the history of their city. The
Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) opened in Seattle’s Montlake
neighborhood in 1952, its early exhibits displaying the artifacts, documents
and photographs collected by the Seattle Historical Society since its inception
at that first costume party in 1911.
Content Description
The collections consists of 44 loose photographs and two albums of 13
and 70 photographs. Most of the loose photographs depict women in period
costume inside or in front of Morgan J. and Emily Carkeek's residence at the
annual Founders' Day celebrations, between 1911 and 1925. Many of the
photographs have identifications inscribed on the back or on separate sheets of
paper. Women are usually identified by their husband's names, and many names of
prominent early Seattleites recur over the years: Morgan J. Carkeek, Thomas
Burke, Charles Rollins, A.F. McEwan,William Trimble, Charles and Arthur Denny,
Erastus Brainerd, James Howe, E.L Blaine, T.T. Minor, Thomas Prosch, Thornton
Prosser, William Biglow, and John Goodfellow, among others.
Both albums also contain photographs of the Founders' Day parties,
including many duplicates of the loose photographs. The album apparently
assembled by Emily Carkeek also includes many photographs of members of the
Seattle Historical Society and other Seattle organizations at Park Board
picnics at old Carkeek Park on Pontiac Bay at Lake Washington.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information Found in collection.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access The collection is open to the public by appointment.
Restrictions on Use The Museum of History & Industry is the owner of the materials in
the Sophie Frye Bass Library and makes available reproductions for research,
publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from MOHAI
before any reproduction use. The museum does not necessarily hold copyright to
all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may
require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.
Preferred Citation Collection of Seattle Historical Society Founders' Day and other
events photographs, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle
Subjects
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
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| Carkeek,
Morgan J., 1847-1931 |
| Seattle
Historical Society |
| Carkeek
Park (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Costume--Washington
(State)--Seattle |
| Parties--Washington
(State)--Seattle |
| Picnicking--Washington
(State)--Seattle |
| Parks and playgrounds |
| Photograph
albums |
| Photographic
prints |
| Other Creators : |
| Carkeek,
Emily, d. 1926 |
Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
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Photographs
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Container(s)
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Description
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Dates
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Founders' Day costume parties at
Carkeek mansion
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1911-1925 |
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These photographs depict women in period costume at the annual
Seattle Historical Society Founders' Day celebrations. All of the photographs
depict groups of women in costume posed inside or outside the Carkeek mansion,
unless otherwise noted.
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2008.3.1.1:
Women in costume inside Carkeek
mansion
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1911 November
13 |
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5 copies Includes identification list
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2008.3.1.2:
Women in costume inside Carkeek
mansion
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1911 November
13 |
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8 copies
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2008.3.1.3:
Mrs. William Biglow dressed up
as Princess Angeline
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1911 November
13 |
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2008.3.1.4:
Seven young women dressed as
Native Americans
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1911 November
13 |
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2 copies Identifications of verso: Olive Kerry, Hazel Landes, Connie
Goodfellow, Guendolen Carkeek, Gladys Landes, Olive Schran, Hortense Smith
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2008.3.1.5:
Women in costume outside
Carkeek mansion (image/jpeg)
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1912 |
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3 copies Includes identification list
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2008.3.1.6:
Women in costume outside
Carkeek mansion
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1912 |
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3 copies
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2008.3.1.7:
Three women in
costume
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1912 |
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3 copies Mrs. William Perkins, Mrs. Donworth and Mrs. Rollins
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2008.3.1.8:
Woman (Mrs. Rollins?) in
costume
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circa 1912 |
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Curtis, Edward S.,
1868-1952
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photographer)
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2008.3.1.9:
Women in costume outside
Carkeek mansion
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1914 |
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4 copies
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2008.3.1.10:
Three women in
costume (image/jpeg)
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1914 |
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Mrs. Thomas Green, Mrs. Howe and Louise Hanford
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2008.3.1.11:
Three women in
costume
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1914 |
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2008.3.1.12:
Women in costume outside
Carkeek mansion
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1916 |
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4 copies
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2008.3.1.13:
Five women in costume
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1916 |
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2 copies Identifications on verso: Mrs. Banford, Miss Young, Mrs.
Emmons, Mrs. Latimer, Mrs. Chilberg
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2008.3.1.14:
Three women in costume
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1916 |
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2 copies Identifications on verso: Mrs. W. Smith, Mrs. Thomas Green,
Mrs. Waterman
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2008.3.1.15:
Two women in costume
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1916 |
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Identifications on verso: Mrs. J.C. Haines, Mrs. Biglow
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2008.3.1.16:
Two women in
costume (image/jpeg)
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1916 |
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2008.3.1.17:
Mrs. Winfield Smith in
costume
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1916 |
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2008.3.1.18:
Women in costume outside
Carkeek mansion
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circa 1917 |
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3 copies Some identifications on verso
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2008.3.1.19:
Women in costume outside
Carkeek mansion
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1919 November 13 |
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Some identifications on verso
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2008.3.1.20:
Three women in costume outside
Carkeek mansion
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1919 Novmeber 13 |
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Identified on verso as Mrs. Maurice McMickan, Mrs. N.H.
Latimer, and Mrs. William F. [Flora] Prosser
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2008.3.1.21:
Two women in costume outside
Carkeek mansion
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1919 November 13 |
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Identified on verso as Mrs. Redick [Charlotte] McKee and Mrs.
Theodore Haller
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2008.3.1.22:
Mrs. J.W. Godwin and Mrs. N.H.
Latimer
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1924 November 13 |
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2008.3.1.23:
Flora Prosser
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1924 November 13 |
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2008.3.1.24:
Mrs. Charles Denny
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1924 November 13 |
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2008.3.1.25:
Mrs. Edgar Ames
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1924 November 13 |
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2008.3.1.26-.27:
Guendolen Carkeek
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1924 November 13 |
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2008.3.1.28:
Group of women in costume
outside Carkeek mansion
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1925 |
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2 copies
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2008.3.1.29:
Mrs. Sam Crawford
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1925 |
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2 copies
French,
Arthur
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photographer)
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2008.3.1.30:
Mrs Blaine (?), Mrs. E.A.
Strout and Mrs. Harry Whitney Treat
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1925 |
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French,
Arthur
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photographer)
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2008.3.1.31:
Mrs. J.H.L. Murray
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1925 |
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French,
Arthur
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photographer)
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2008.3.1.32:
Mrs. Thomas Burke
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1925 |
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French,
Arthur
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photographer)
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2008.3.1.33:
Mrs. Theodore N. Haller and
Mrs. Carl M. Ballard
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1925 |
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French,
Arthur
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photographer)
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2008.3.1.34:
Group of men and women at buffet table at Founders'
Day party
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1939 November 13 |
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2008.3.1.35-.36:
Group of women in costume
outside Carkeek mansion
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undated |
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2008.3.1.37:
Group of young women in Dutch
costumes
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undated |
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2008.3.1.38:
Collage of women in
costume
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undated |
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Clippings
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1914-1922, undated |
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4 items Newspaper reproductions of photographs from Founders' Day
parties captioned with descriptions and identifications.
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Other events
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2008.3.1.39:
Group, mostly women, at garden
party
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circa 1910 |
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2008.3.1.40:
Group posed outside commercial
building
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undated |
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2008.3.1.41:
Group posed in ornate
room
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undated |
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2008.3.1.42:
Studio portrait of group of
young men and women
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undated |
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2008.3.1.43:
Two women looking at
rhododendrons
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undated |
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2008.3.1.44:
Studio portrait of six women
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1904 |
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Tintype
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Albums
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Container(s)
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Description
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Dates
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2008.3.1.45:
Album of Founders' Day
photographs
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1911-1916, 1939 |
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13 photographs Mostly photographs of women in costume at Founders' Day
celebrations; also men and women at Founder Day parties and two images of
people at unidentified events. Many of the photographs are duplicates of images
in Photographs series.
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2008.3.1.46:
Emily Carkeek album of Founders
Day party and Carkeek Park picnic photographs
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1894, 1911-1925 |
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Carkeek, Emily, d.
1926
(
creator)
70 photographs Photographs of women in costume at annual Founders' Day
celebrations at Carkeek mansions, including duplicates of some of the images in
the Photographs series. Also includes photographs of picnics at the "original"
Carkeek Park (1918-1926) on Pontiac Bay at Lake Washington, later the site of
the Sand Point Naval Station and now Magnuson Park.These annual picnic
luncheons were given by the Seattle Park Board for donors to the park and their
friends on the anniversary of the donation of the park by Morgan and Emily
Carkeek. Guest included delegations from the Seattle Historical Society, the
City Council, the Chamber of Commerce and the Optimist Club.
Dates given are taken from captions and inscriptions on the
photographs.
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Ezra Meeker and Morgan J.
Carkeek shaking hands
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undated |
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Women in costume outside
Carkeek mansion
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undated |
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Group at Carkeek Park
picnic
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1924 |
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Men at picnic table
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1924 August 25 |
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Group, including Morgan J.
Carkeek, at picnic table
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undated |
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Seattle Historical Society
members, including Morgan J. Carkeek, around bell tower in Carkeek
Park
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undated |
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Mrs. George Riley
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1921 |
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Grady
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photographer)
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Morgan J. Carkeek, in group,
nailing park rules sign to tree
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circa 1918 |
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Emily Carkeek
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1921 |
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Grady
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photographer)
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Emily and Morgan
Carkeek
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undated |
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People at picnic luncheon
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1922 October |
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Morgan J. Carkeek ringing bell
for lunch
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undated |
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Ezra Meeker and Morgan J.
Carkeek
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undated |
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Two women in Native American
costume outside Carkeek mansion
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1911 |
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Group, including Morgan and
Emily Carkeek, at park picnic
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1923 October 9 |
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Group, including Morgan and
Emily Carkeek, at park picnic
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undated |
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Women in costume inside Carkeek
mansion
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undated |
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Park Board picnic
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1924 August 28 |
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Group of Nigerians and one
white man at Peace Celebration Day, Owo, Nigeria
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1919 August |
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Mrs. Burke and Mrs. Barkus in
costume
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1916 |
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Mrs. Donworth, Mrs. Perkins and
Mrs. Rollins in costume outside Carkeek mansion
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1914 |
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Mrs. McEwan in
costume
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undated |
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Mrs. Hawley and Mrs. Thomas
Green in costume
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undated |
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Women in costume outside
Carkeek mansion
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1917 |
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Women in costume outside
Carkeek mansion
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1916 |
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Woman in costume
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undated |
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Women in costume outside
Carkeek mansion
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1925 |
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Mrs. Rolland Denny and Mrs.
David Bowen in costume outside Carkeek mansion
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1924 November 13 |
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Mrs. George Donworth and Mrs.
Horton [illegible]
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1924 November 13 |
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Women in costume outside
Carkeek mansion
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undated |
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Women in costume outside
Carkeek mansion
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1919 |
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Mrs. McMurken, Mrs. Latimer and
Mrs. Prosser in costume on porch of Carkeek mansion
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1919 |
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Mrs. Frank Reading Van Tuyl in
costume
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1921 |
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Grady
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photographer)
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Two women in costume outside
Carkeek mansion
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1924 November 13 |
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Carkeek mansion from
street
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undated |
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Women dressed up as Grandpa and
Grandma Smallwood from Charles Dickens's
Bleak House
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1894 February 3 |
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Apparently for a "Dickens party" at Carkeek mansion
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Women in costume inside Carkeek
mansion
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1911 |
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Seven women dressed as Native
Americans outside Carkeek mansion
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1911 |
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Women in costume inside Carkeek
mansion
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1911 |
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Women in costume outside
Carkeek mansion
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1914 |
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Women in costume
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1914 |
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Three women in Native American
costume
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1911 |
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Mrs. Biglow as "Old Settler"
and another woman in costume
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1916 |
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Three women in costume outside
Carkeek mansion
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undated |
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Mrs. Thomas Burke in
costume
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1914 |
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Mrs. Pierre Terry and Mrs. W.N.
Biglow is costume
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1914 |
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Six young women dressed as
milkmaids on Carkeek mansion porch
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1914 |
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Mrs.Bradley, Mrs. Nelson
Chilberg and Mrs. W.V. Rinehart in costume
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1917 November 5 |
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Group of women
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undated |
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Mrs. Waldo Richardson in
costume
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undated |
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Mrs. Wettengel in
costume
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undated |
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Five women in
costume
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1916 |
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Mrs. John Collins, Mrs. Winlock
Miller and Mrs. Joseph Blethen in costume
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1917 |
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Mrs. Winfield Smith in
costume
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1916 |
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Mrs. Biglow as "Old Settler"
and another woman in costume
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1916 |
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Mrs. George Donworth in
costume
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1920 |
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Eight Native American
chiefs
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undated |
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McKnight
Studio, Olympia
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photographer)
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Women in costume
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1925 |
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Mrs. M.H. McKee and Mrs.
Theodore Haller in costume
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1919 |
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Women in costume inside Carkeek
mansion
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1913 |
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Women in costume on porch of
Carkeek mansion
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1919 |
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Women in costume outside
Carkeek mansion
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1922 |
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