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Semple and Mizner families photograph collection, approximately 1860-1959
Overview of the Collection
- Title
- Semple and Mizner families photograph collection
- Dates
- approximately 1860-1959 (inclusive)18601959
- Quantity
-
131 photographic prints (1 box,
1 folder)
1 album
1 drawing - Collection Number
- PH1120
- Summary
- Photograph collection of Semple and Mizner families
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
-
Entire collection can be viewed on the Libraries’ Digital Collections website. Permission of Visual Materials Curator required to view originals. Contact Special Collections for more information.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
This collection relates to several families that are all related to Mary Cairns. Mary was married twice, to Henry Mizner and James Semple and had seven children. The collection includes photographs from both her sons and daughters families. By one husband she had three children, William Mizner, Lansing Mizner, and Mary Mizner Floyd-Jones and by her other husband she had four children, Lucy Semple Ames, May Semple, Eugene Semple, and Julia Semple Scott.
Lansing Mizner married Ella Watson and they moved to California. During the Bear Flag Rebellion in 1846, a group of Americans, including Lansing Mizner and his step-uncle Robert Semple, captured the Commandant of Northern California, General Mariano Vallejo at his home and headquarters in Sonoma. While transporting the General by boat down the Napa River and up the Sacramento River to Sutter’s Fort, Semple and Mizner saw the land that now comprises the City of Benicia and recognized its potential for the development of a port to support trade for all of Northern California. After Mariano Vallejo was released from imprisonment at Sutter's Fort, the land was deeded to Dr. Robert Semple and Thomas O. Larkin. Semple laid out the town in 1847 and also served as president of the 1849 Constitutional Convention. On March 27, 1850 Benicia incorporated. The Benicia Capitol was constructed in 1852 and became the California's third seat of government February 4, 1853 - February 25, 1854. They entered into an agreement with General Vallejo to establish a ferry between Central and Northern California, using a part of the proceeds to support a ‘Public’ School - open to all residents at no cost to the students nor their families. When Semple and Mizner agreed, General Vallejo deeded the land to them for the establishment of the City of Franchesca. Later, when the city leaders of the village of Yerba Buena decided to rename their town after Saint Frances and called it San Francisco - Semple, Mizner and other early residents of Franchesca changed its name to Benicia. Lansing Minzer was also a lawyer and the U. S. minister to Guatemala, who was recalled to the United States in 1891 by President Benjamin Harrison after the Barrundia Affair. He and his wife had nine children, Murry Mizner, Lansing Mizner Jr, Mary (Minnie) Mizner Chase, Edgar Mizner, William Mizner, Henry Mizner, Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner.
Mary (Minnie) Mizner Chase married Horace Chase. They founded a winery in Napa, California called Stag’s Leap.
Addison Cairnes Mizner became an architect and is most famous as an American resort architect whose Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style interpretations left an indelible stamp on South Florida, where it continues to inspire architects and land developers. In the 1920s he was the best-known and most-discussed living American architect and was the visionary behind development of Boca Raton, Florida.
Wilson Mizner was an American playwright and entrepreneur. His best-known plays are The Deep Purple, produced in 1910, and The Greyhound, produced in 1912. He was manager and co-owner of The Brown Derby restaurant in Los Angeles, California, and was affiliated with his brother, Addison Mizner, in a series of scams and misadventures that inspired Stephen Sondheim's Road Show. Mary Cairns’s daughter Mary Mizner Floyd-Jones married James Floyd-Jones. They had three children Robert Floyd-Jones, Semple Floyd-Jones, Edgar Floyd-Jones.
Mary’s husband, James Semple unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Senate in 1836. President Martin Van Buren appointed him as Chargé d'Affaires to New Granada on 14 October 1837, and he served in that capacity until 4 March 1842. He was the judge of the Illinois Supreme Court from 1842 to 1843. He was appointed and subsequently elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel McRoberts and served from December 4, 1843, to March 3, 1847. He was not a candidate for re-nomination in 1846. Semple ended up in Jersey County, Illinois, where in 1853 he founded the town of Elsah, Illinois.
Mary Cairns’s daughter Lucy Semple married Edgar Ames. They settled in Seattle. They had four children, Ada Ames, Henry Semple Ames, Mary Ames Cushman who married Wayman Cushman, and Edgar Ames.
Mary Cairns’s son Eugene Semple married Ruth Lownsdale Blanchard. He was the 13th Governor of Washington Territory. In the 1860s, he moved to Oregon and became Editor and Publisher of the Portland Daily Herald. From 1870 to 1873 he was Oregon's State Printer. Having lost his investments and savings in the Panic of 1873, he moved to eastern Oregon, where he farmed until 1887, when President Cleveland nominated him to be Governor. He served until 1889, a period when the territory's population doubled, and during his term he dealt with labor unrest and the expansion of Washington's government and school system. He also signed a bill enabling women to vote, which was overturned by the territory's Supreme Court. In 1889 Washington attained statehood, and Semple was the Democratic nominee for Governor, losing to former territorial Governor Elisha Ferry. After leaving office, he was involved in the unsuccessful promotion of canals from Shilshole Bay to Lake Washington and Astoria to Seaside, Oregon. He moved to a San Diego hotel in early 1908. He and his wife had four children, Maud Semple, Zoe Semple, Mary Semple and Eugene Semple Jr.
Mary Cairns’s daughter, Julia Semple Scott married Ashley Scott. They had five children, Mary Scott, Stillman Scott, Ashley Scott Jr, Eugene Scott, Isabelle Scott.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The collection consists of photographs of the Semple family and relatives and the Mizner family and relatives. The people in this collection are connected through Mary Cairns who married Henry Mizner and James Semple.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
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Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Mizner family and relativesReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Lansing B. Mizner family
Lansing B. Mizner (December 5, 1825-1893) was the son of Mary
Cairns and her first husband Henry Mizner. Lansing's siblings were William
Mizner and Isabella Mary Mizner, who married Charles Floyd-Jones. Lansing
Mizner married Emma Watson and had eight children: Murry Mizner, Lansing Mizner
Jr., Mary "Minnie" Mizner, Edgar Mizner, William Mizner, Henry Mizner, Addison
Mizner, and Wilson Mizner.
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/1 | 1 | February 1, 1869 | |
1/1 | 2 |
Portrait of Lansing Bond Mizner,
Benicia, California
Taber, San Francisco
(photographer)
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June 1879 |
1/1 | 3 |
Portrait of Edgar Mizner (September 2
1862-?), Benicia, California
Thoms Photographic Studio, San Franciso
(photographer)
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April 1884 |
1/1 | 4 |
Minnie Mizner and Horace Chase's
wedding party
Written on photograph: Marguerite Wallace, Benton Leiter, Mr.
and Mrs. Horace Blanchard Chase, Flora H. Carroll, [illegible] Mizner, A.
Herriott Small, Harry L, Coleman, Andrew Jackson, Grace [illegible],
[illgegible] Edgar [illegible].
Written on verso: 1890-Minnie Mizner Chase wedding party, July
18, 1888.
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July 18, 1888 |
1/1 | 5 | 1890 | |
1/1 | 6 |
Portrait of Addison Cairns Mizner,
December 12, 1872-1933
Addison Mizner and his brother, Wilson Mizner, were notorious
and famous members of the respectable Mizner family. They traveled to Alaska in
1897 to bilk miners during the Alaska Gold Rush. After the Gold Rush, Addison
went to Guatemala, purchased relics and colonial-era furnishings, and then sold
them in New York at tremendous markup prices. Despite his lack of architectural
training, Addison Mizer is remembered for his pseudo-Spanish colonial designs
for buildings constructed in the 1920s during the Florida land boom. Meanwhile,
Addison's brother, Wilson, became famous for his wit and his plays. On the
side, Wilson ran a gambling joint on Long Island, for which he was later
arrested. Both Addison and Wilson Mizner died in 1933.
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1890 |
1/1 | 7 |
Lansing Mizner and family in Benicia
California
Written on verso: Edgar Mizner, Aunt Ella, Lansing, William,
Uncle Lansing, Wilson, Minnie, and Henry, Addison.
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undated |
Chase family at Stags Leap property, Napa,
California
Mary "Minnie" Mizner married Horace Chase. They moved to Napa,
California and established a winery: Stags Leap Vineyards.
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/2 | 8 |
Porch at Stags Leap with
hammock
Written on verso: Lauai-at Stags Leap.
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undated |
1/2 | 9 |
View of Chase home from front lawn at
Stags Leap
Stags Leap-Napa C. Cal. Home of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Chase
(Minnie Mizner).
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undated |
1/2 | 10 | View of path lined with palm trees at
Stags Leap |
undated |
1/2 | 11 | Garden at Stags Leap |
undated |
1/2 | 12 | Garden at Stags Leap with Chase home
in background |
undated |
1/2 | 13 | View gravel path lined with trees at
Stags Leap |
undated |
1/2 | 14 | Outdoor pool at Stags
Leap
Written on verso: Pool at Stags Leap-Home of Mr. and Mrs.
Horace Chase-at Yountville-Co. California.
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undated |
1/2 | 15 |
Ella Mizner standing outside at Stags
Leap
Written on verso: Mrs. Lansing B. Mizner at Stags Leap
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undated |
1/2 | 16 |
Horace Chase standing in front of
palm tree outside at Stags Leap
Written on verso: Horace Blanchard Chase at Stags Leap.
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undated |
1/2 | 17a-b |
Ella Mizner seated in rocking chair
on lawn at Stags Leap
Written on verso: Aunt Ella Mizner at Stags Leap.
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undated |
1/2 | 18 |
Zoe Semple holding flowers on lawn
beneath palm trees at Stags Leap
Written on verso: Zoe Semple at Stags Leap.
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undated |
Floyd-Jones family
Mary Stevenson Cairns and Henry Caldwell Mizner's daughter,
Isabelle, married Charles Floyd-Jones in 1853 and had three sons: Robert,
Semple, and Edgar. Charles is the son of Helen Watts DeLancey and Henry
Floyd-Jones. Helen and Henry Floyd-Jones had six children: Charles, Edward,
DeLancey, Sarah, Kate, and Helen (Nell) Floyd-Jones. In addition to Charles and
Isabelle Floyd-Jones, known marriages of Charles's siblings include Edward
Floyd-Jones to Mary Lord who had a daughter; Helen Watts Floyd-Jones and Kate
Floyd-Jones to John D. Jones.
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/3 | 19 |
Portrait of Edward "Ned"
Floyd-Jones
Written on verso: Edward Floyd-Jones, New York.
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undated |
1/3 | 20 | Portrait of DeLancey Floyd-Jones
(1826-1902)
T.L. Rivers, St. Louis
(photographer)
DeLancey Floyd-Jones was born January 20, 1826 and died
January 19, 1902. He was the son of Helen M. Watts and Henry Floyd-Jones and
brother of Charles Floyd-Jones. Floyd-Jones served as an officer in the United
States Army during the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, and for
frontier durty in the Old West.
Written on verso: DeLancey Floyd-Jones U.S. Army.
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undated |
1/3 | 21 |
Portrait of Edward
Floyd-Jones
Written on verso: Semple Floyd-Jones, Christmas 1886 3204 Pine
St.
Semple Floyd-Jones is the son of Charles Floyd-Jones and
Isabelle Mizner, Isabelle Mizner being the daughter of Mary Stevenson Cairns
and Henry Caldwell Mizner.
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December 1886 |
Semple family and relativesReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Semple family |
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James Semple (January 5, 1798-December 20,
1866)
James Semple was born January 5, 1798 to Lucy Robertson and
John Walker Semple. He was one of nine children. His siblings were Elise Baylor
Semple, Frances Semple, John Walker Semple, Robert Baylor Semple, Isaac
Robertson Semple, Charles Donald Semple, Lucy Bird Semple, and Adaline Matilda
Semple. James Semple was a Chief Justice of the Illnois Supreme Court, Charge
d'Affaires to New Granada, and US Senator. He later went on and founded the
town Elsah, Illinois in 1853. He married Mary Cairns in 1833. Together, they
had four children: Lucy Semple, May Semple, Eugene Semple, and Julia
Semple.
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/4 | 22a |
Portrait of James
Semple
Written on verso: Gen. James Semple. Father of Lucy Virginia
Semple (Ames), Julia Ellen Semple (Scott), and Eugene Semple.
Item b is same as item a. Item b is an engraving.
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circa 1880s |
folder:oversize | |||
1/4 | 22b | Portrait of James
Semple
Written on verso: My grandfather-Ethel Semple Swanstrom.
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circa 1880s |
Box/Folder | |||
1/4 | 23 |
View of front yard with tree and
picket fence
Written on verso: View in farm yard at [illegible]. At one
time the house of Gen. James Semple.
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undated |
Eugene Semple (June 12-August 28,
1840-1908)
Eugene Semple, son of Mary Cairns and James Semple, came West
seeking his fortune in 1863. Semple worked as a lawyer, newspaper editor,
amateur engineer and inventor, farmer, and lumberman. Semple also earned
appointments to several prominent political offices--Washington Territorial
Governor, Washington State Harbor Commissioner and Oregon State Printer. He was
also an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Washington State.
In 1870, Semple married Ruth Lownsdale, the daughter of an
early Portland settler. The years ahead were the nadir of Semple’s career.
Bankrupt, he left Portland with his growing family in 1875. The Semples
homesteaded in eastern Oregon until Ruth divorced Eugene in 1883 and married
another man, leaving Eugene with custody of their four children.
Territorial Governor in 1885, Semple mobilized the help of his
influential family in the East and his own political connections in the West.
The contest for the appointment consumed more than two years, as various
political factions deluged Cleveland with petitions supporting Semple or his
rivals. The President eventually chose Semple in 1887 to replace Republican
Governor Watson Squire. Semple’s two-year term as governor coincided with a
period of turbulence and expansive growth in the territory.
After leaving the governorship, Semple spent his time managing
a company he had bought while in office, the Lucia Mill Company in Vancouver,
Washington. Unfortunately, the company’s profits were consumed in Semple’s
unsuccessful efforts to interest Eastern investors in buying land in the Skagit
Valley in the early 1890s.
Semple lived out his last years on money borrowed from
relatives. He died on August 28, 1908.
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/5 | 24 |
Portrait of Eugene
Semple
Ruchtel and Stolte, Photographers, Portland, Oregon
(photographer)
Written on verso: Eugene Semple-Aunt Lucy gave this to me
Tuesday, July 6, 1909 out of her album. Zoe Agnes Semple.
|
circa 1870s |
Eugene Semple as Territorial Govenor of
Washington |
circa 1887-1889 | ||
Box/Folder | item | ||
1/5 | 25 | circa 1870s | |
box-folder:oversize | |||
OS6 | 26 | 1887-1889 | |
Box/Folder | |||
1/5 | 27 | 1887-1889 | |
box-folder:oversize | |||
OS6 | 28 |
Portrait of Eugene
Semple
Written on verso: Eugene Semple [illegible].
Item 28 is same engraving as item 27.
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undated |
Box/Folder | |||
1/5 | 29 |
Portrait of Eugene
Semple
Rogers, Olympia, Washington
Written on verso: Eugene Semple as govenor of Washington
Territory. 1889.
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1889 |
Box/Folder | item | ||
1/5 | 30 |
Portrait of Eugene
Semple
Curtis and Guptill, Seattle, Washington
(photographer)
Written on verso: This is a picture of dear little papa. It
isn't our [illegible] as good-looking as he is. Taken August 1895. Zoe
Semple.
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circa 1895 |
Semple family on the U.S. Revenue Cutter
Bear
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/6 | 31 |
Group portrait of Semple family on
deck of boat
Written on verso: Taken on deck of U.S. Revenue Cutter
Bear. Seattle, May 14, 1899.
Rear row-left to right 1. 2. Anna Marie Philipps-Moale 3.
Frandie Webster 4. 5.Harry Boyd 6. Maude Semple Moale 7. 8. Billard 9. Zoe
Semple.
Front row-1. 2. Ethel Semple 3. 4.
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May 14, 1899 |
1/6 | 32a |
Semple family on board U.S. Revenue
Cutter Bear
Written on verso: Luncheon on board M.S. Revenue Cutter
"Bear" Seattle May 14, 1899. The one in the lietenant uniform next to me on my
left [illegible] is Dr. Call who was one of the Jarvis Relief Expedition.
[illegible].
Left to right-rear row-1. 2. Zoe Semple 3. 4. Harry Boyd 5.
.6. Anna Marie Philipps 6. Billard. Front row-1. ? 2. Dr. Call 3. Maude Moale
Semple 4. Ethel Semple 5. 6. Frandie Webster 7. .
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May 14, 1899 |
1/6 | 32b | Semple family on board U.S. Revenue
Cutter Bear
Item a is same image as item b.
Written on verso: On board Revenue Cutter Bear-famous in
Arctic history. This was in Seattle harbour.
Back row: Zoe Semple, Harry Boyd, Lt, Anna Marie Philipps,
Lt. Billard. Front row: Dr. Call-was with Overland Expedition to [illegible],
Maude Semple Moale (Jarvis Relief Expedition), Ethel Semple, Frandie Webster of
Seattle and Port Townsend.
Luncheon on board U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear-Seattle, May 14, 1899.
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May 14, 1899 |
Semple family group portraits and
relatives |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/7 | 33 |
Group portrait of Semple family and
relatives on porch at Notchcliff estate
Written on verso: [illegible] Semple-Montgomery relatives.
Daughter of Henry [illegible] Semple-later of New York., Semple Ames, Mrs.
Paschall, Geo. Paschall, Hnery Turner, Mary Cushman, Edgar Turner, Marian
Lindsay-our cousin, daughter of [illegible]. She is Mrs. Frank Seurs of
Cincinatti. Must have been about 1892.
Taken on porch at Ellistown. Home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Turner-on a portion of the Notchcliff estate. Mrs. Turner was Ada Ames,
daughter of Lucy Semple Ames-who built and owned Notchcliff-Notchcliff was
landscaped by the famous Elmstead of Boston. Ellistown was [illegible] by the
son Elmstead the second.
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circa 1892 |
1/7 | 34 |
Group portrait of Semple and Mizner
famly members in grass
Written on verso: Left to right: Mary Ames Cushman (Mrs.
Wayman Crow), Henry Mizner in uniform, Minnie Mizner Chases (Mrs. Horace
Blanchard), Julia Semple Scott (mrs. Ashley D. of St. Louis). My
Ames-Scott-Mizner cousines et al. Must have been at West Point, where Henry
Mizner was at the time. Ethel Semple Swanstrom, Seattle.
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circa 1890s |
1/8 | 35 |
Photograph of a painting of
Letitia Tyler Semple
Letita Tyler Semple was born May 11, 1821. She was the
daughter of John Tyler and Letitia Christian Tyler. Her father, John Tyler, was
the tenth President of the United States. After her mother's death, Letitia
acted as unofficial First Lady in 1844.
Written on verso: Mrs. Letitia Tyler Semple who presided at
the White House 1843-1844 at the age of twenty-two. Given to me in Washincton,
Apl. '89.
Mary Ames Cushman-my cousin gave this to me [illegible].
"Cousin Letitia" was very close to all of our family-she always addressed us as
"cousin" she said.
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undated |
1/8 | 36a |
Portrait of Mrs. L.J. Bradford
holding binoculars sitting in a chair outside
Written on verso: Mrs. Bradford on East Lawn "Notch Cliffs".
Mrs. L.J. Bradford-Frankfort, Kentucky.
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undated |
1/8 | 36b | Portrait of Mrs. L.J. Bradford
holding binoculars sitting in a chair outside
Photograph taken on same day at different angles.
Written on verso: Mrs. Bradford on East Lawn at Notch Cliff.
Aunt Lucia from Spingfield, IL. We always called her Aunt Luce-we Semple
Children.
Mrs. Bradford is probably a relative of the Semples as Lucy
is a family name on James Semple's side of the family. James Semple's mother
was Lucy Robertson and his sister was Lucy Bird Semple. James Semple also had a
niece named Lucy Robertson Semple. In addition, James Semple's children
referred to Mrs. Bradford as Aunt Luce.
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undated |
1/8 | 37 |
Portrait of Eugene Semple,
Jr
Frank G. Abell, Portland, Oregon
Written on verso: Eugene Semple Jr, February 14, 1884.
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February 14, 1884 |
1/8 | 38 |
Portrait of Marian Semple
Lindsay
Studio Frand, Paris
(photographer)
Written on verso: Marian Semple Lindsay-Mrs. Frank Suers ?
Cincinatti. Daughter [illegible] Lindsay of Kentucky who married two Semple
sisters. Frank Suers-cousin of Mrs. Osgood.
Marion Semple Lindsay is the great-niece of James Semple.
Her mother was Henrietta Louisiana Sample, daughter of James Semple's brother
Isaac Robertson Semple. Marion Semple Lindsay's father, William Lindsay, was
married to two Semple sisters. His first marriage was to Elizabeth Swan Semple
in 1864. His second was to Elizabeth Swan's sister, Henrietta Louisianna in
1868. He had three children.
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circa 1885-1890s |
1/8 | 39 |
Portrait of young man possibly J.
Hurlburt, Blaine, Washington
E.A. Stegg, Sehome, Washington
(photographer)
Written on verso: Ethel Semple September 18, 1890. J
Hurlburt. Cashier for First Bank in Blaine, Washington .
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September 18, 1890 |
1/8 | 39a |
Graduating class of Washington
College celebrating, Tacoma, Washington
Written on verso: Haughton Bickerton, Alec T. Hosuer, Chas.
Meiel, Harry Jordon, Everett Babesch, Lucille, Chas Fitzcleaurice, Davis.
Graduating class of Washington College Tacoma Washington. Zoe Agnes Semple.
Annie Wright Leminary.
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1892 |
1/8 | 40 |
Zoe Semple, Maude Semple Moale, and
Ethel Semple Swanstrom
James + Bushnell
(photographer)
Written on mount: Zoe Agnes Semple, later Mrs. Arthur
Vassall, Maude Semple Moale, later Langdon, Ethel Semple Swanstrom. We all
thought these were terrific pictures of all of us at the time, but it is nice
now to have the 3 "Semple sisters" or "Semple girls" as we were always referred
to taken together. Probably about 1906 or 1907.
The portrait of the three Semple sisters has been removed
from orignal mounting. Original mounting has an inscription noted above.
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circa 1906-1907 |
1/8 | 41 | Semple House in
Virginia
Written on verso: Semple house-Restored at Williamsburg,
Virginia.
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undated |
Swanstrom relatives
The Swanstroms are related to the Semple's through Eugene
Semple's daughter, Mary Ethel Swanstrom. She married Frederick Swanstrom and
had three daughters: Georgiana Osgood Swanstrom Larkin, Lucy Semple Swanstrom
Adair, and Mary Frederick Swanstrom Rydgren. Mary Ethel Swanstrom made efforts
to restore For Simcoe in Yakima, Washington.
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box-folder:oversize | item | ||
OS6 | 42 |
Group portrait of Ames and Swanstrom
families
Written on verso: A dinner with my cousin Edgar Ames and his
lovely wife, Anne. Rear row from left: Edgar Ames, Lucy Semple Adair, her son
Frederick, Floyd Larkin, Georgiana Larkin. Center: George Adair Carter, George
Adair Jr. Bottowm row: Anne Ames and Ethel Semple Swanstrom. Lucy Semple and
Georgiana are my daughters.
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undated |
Box/Folder | |||
1/9 | 43 | Portrait of Ethel Semple
D.J. Ryan, Shelbyville, Il
(photographer)
Written on verso: Ethel Semple-Jan 5, age 10 yrs.
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undated |
1/9 | 44 |
Ethel Semple standing outside near
cliff
Ethel Semple taken on Sandy [illegible] looking down the
[illegible] from Notchcliff.
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circa 1890-1900s |
1/9 | 45 |
Ethel Semple and Helene McNaught
standing on a porch
Written on verso: Left-Ethel Semple. Right-Helene [illegible]
McNaught
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circa 1900s |
1/9 | 46 |
Ethel Semple Swanstrom drinking tea
outside
Written on verso: Mary E. Semple Swanstrom. Tea under the
trees by Mrs. Leinanz. Mary Yard, Bremerton, Washington. Summer of 1907. Pale
grey dress-hat brimmed with old rose.
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1907 |
1/9 | 47 |
Ethel Swanstrom and daughters Lucy,
Georgiana, and Mary Frederick
Written on verso: Ethel Semple Swanstrom. Left-Lucy Semple
Swanstrom, Mary Frederick Sempl Swanstrom, and Georgiana Osgood Swanstrom. Must
have been 1910-1911.
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1910-1911 |
folder:oversize | |||
1/9 | 48 |
Portrait of Mary Elizabeth Swanstrom
Written on verso: Mary Elizabeth Swanstrom. 2 years 6 mos.
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circa 1913 |
Box/Folder | |||
1/9 | 49 | Portrait of Lucy Semple Swanstrom
Adair
James + Bushnell, Seattle
(photographer)
Written on verso: With Loads of Love, Lucy-Semple. Xmas
1920.
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Winter 1920 |
1/9 | 50 |
Lucy Semple Swanstrom standing
outside
Written on verso: Lucy Semple Swanstrom (Mrs. Adair)
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circa 1920s |
1/10 | 51 |
Portrait of Lieutenent Mary Frederick
Swanstrom Rydgren
Written on verso: Lieut. Mary Rydgren-Marine Corps "Fritzie
Swanstrom"
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circa 1930s |
1/10 | 52 |
Georgiana Swanstrom on a
horse
Written on verso: Georgiana Swanstrom, Yakima, Wash 1934.
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1934 |
1/10 | 53 |
Ethel Swanstrom, Georgiana Swanstrom
and others at Fort Simcoe, Yakima, Washington
Written on verso: Fort Simcoe-Washington-Meeting of Junior
Indian Council, 1934. Left. Virgil McWharter, historian and friend of the
Indians wounded by [illegible] Big Foot. Next C.C.C. Maj. Studley.
Rear-Georgiana Swanstrom Front-Joe Rase and children. Rear-Ethel Semple
Swanstrom. Right C.C.C Donald H. Clair.
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1934 |
1/10 | 54 |
Portrait of Ethel Semple
Swanstrom
Hessler
(photographer)
Written on verso: Ethel Semple Swanstrom-Washington, DE.
Winter 1936-1937. Taken for the newspapers. So awful-I never ordered any.
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1936-1937 |
1/10 | 55 |
Mrs. Dean Guir and Ethel Swanstrom
looking over Judge Milroy's shoulder as he draws a picture
Written on verso: Judge Milroy, Mrs. Dean Guir (scarf on
head), Mrs. Frederick Swanstrom - 1939 - Judge Milroy was drawing on a table, a
picture of his recollection of the old stockade.
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Summer 1939 |
1/10 | 56 |
Ethel Swanstrom and friends
picnicking at Fort Simcoe
Written on verso: Left-Mrs. Dean Guire-Mrs E. Helster Guire,
Mrs. Milroy, Ethel Semple Swanstrom, Judge Milroy and Mrs. Milroy. Picnic at
Simcoe, Summer 1939.
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Summer 1939 |
1/10 | 57a |
Mary Frederick Swanstrom Rydgren
cooking on stovetop
Written on verso: Fritzie Swanstrom Rydgren. Fall of
1948-Spring '49. Trying out recipes, New York.
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Fall 1948-Spring 1949 |
1/10 | 57b |
Mary Frederick Swanstrom Rydgren
cooking on stovetop
Written on verso: Fritzie Swanstrom Rydgren trying out new
recipes. Fall 1948-Spring 1949. Making reading for a food photographer, New
York.
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Fall 1948-Spring 1948 |
1/10 | 57c |
Mary Frederick Swanstrom Rydgren
getting food ready for a food photographer
Fritzie Swanstrom Rydgren getting ready for a food
photographer. Spring 1949, New York.
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Spring 1949 |
box-folder:oversize | |||
OS6 | 58a |
Portrait of Frederick Semple
Adair
Kennell and Ellis
(photographer)
Written on photograph: Frederick Semple Adair "Pog".
Written on verso: Frederick Sempl Adair-High School
Graduation.
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undated |
OS6 | 58b |
Portait of George Henry
Adair
Written on photograph: Georg [sic] Henry Adair- "G.G.".
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undated |
Box/Folder | |||
1/11 | 59 |
Portrait of Frederick Semple
Adair
Zamsky Studios, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(photographer)
Written on photograph: Frederick Semple Adair, Plebe U.S. MA
1951.
Frederick Semple Adair is probably the son of Ethel Semple and
Frederick Swanstrom.
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1951 |
1/11 | 60 | Battle of Piqua marker in George
Rogers Clark Park, just outside of Springfield, Ohio
Written on verso: Marker in George Rogers Clark Park, just
outside of Springfield, Ohio-commemorating the Battle of Piqua-Clark in
command. Fritzie-Ricky and I visited there. June 1955
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June 1955 |
1/11 | 61 |
Ethel and Frederick Swanstrom, Mary
Frederick "Fritzie" Swanstrom Rydgren, and young boy in front of the Statue of
George Rogers Clark at George Rogers Clark Park, Ohio
Written on verso: Statue of George Rogers Clark-at park name
for him near Springfield, Ohio. Fritzie, Ricky, and I visted in in June 1955
and the three of us had our picture taken with the park sculpt. Ethel Semple
Swanstrom. The memorial [illegible] in the same park [illegible] of the Battle
of Piqua. Clark in command.
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June 1955 |
1/11 | 62 | Sky terrier Fifi looking through a
chicken wire fence
Written on verso: Fifi-Cousin Ada Turner's sky terrier
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undated |
1/11 | 63a | Infant Floyd Ames Larkin
Floyd Ames Larkin is the son of Floyd Larkin and Georgiana
Swanstrom Larkin.
Written on verso: Floyd Ames Larkin "Bebe".
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circa 1950s |
1/11 | 63b | Infant Floyd Ames Larkin crawling on
a bed
Written on verso: Floyd Ames Larkin "Bebe".
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circa 1950s |
1/11 | 63c | Infant Floyd Ames Larkin laying on a
bed
Written on verso: With love to Cousin Anne and Cousin Edgar
from Floyd Ames.
Cousin Edgar and Cousin Ann are Edgar and Anne Ames, son and
daughter-in-law to Edgar Ames and Lucy Semple Ames.
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circa 1950s |
Moale and Langdon relatives
The Moale and Langdons are related to the Semples through Eugene
Semple's daughter, Adria Maude Semple Moale Langdon. More commonly referred to
as Maude, Adria Semple married Edward Moale in 1891 and had one child, Edward
Semple Moale, Jr. who served in the US Navy on the steamship
Helenaduring the Spanish American War and was
promoted to lieutenant after a naval battle in Manzanillo, Cuba. Following her
husband's death in 1903, Maude Semple Moale married Colonel Russell C. Langdon.
Colonel Langdon served as commanding officer of the 127th Infantry Regiment in
France during World War I. He was promoted to Brigadier General and awared
Distinguised Service Cross for extraordinary heroism on August 5, 1918 near
Fismes, France.
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Moale family |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/12 | 64 |
Portrait of Maude Semple
Moale
Written on verso: Maude Semple Moale-later Mrs. Russell C.
Langdon.
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circa 1890s |
1/12 | 65 |
Portrait of Foster
Moale
F.M. Zuller, Richfield Springs, New York and U.S. N.A., Annapolis Maryland
(photographer)
Written on verso: Foster Moale-brother of Edward Moale.
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undated |
1/12 | 66 |
Portrait of Edward Moale's sister
Mary Peel
Written on verso: For [illegible] With love from his sister
Mary L. Peel
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undated |
1/12 | 67 |
Portrait of Maude Semple Moale and
son, Edward Semple Moale
Braas, Seattle Washington
(photographer)
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circa 1890s-1900s |
Langdon family |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/13 | 68 |
Portrait of Maude Semple
Langdon
Marceall, New York
(photographer)
Written on verso: Mrs. Russell C. Langdon.
See also Maude Semple Moale
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circa 1900-1910s |
1/13 | 69 | March 1911 | |
1/13 | 70 |
Home of Captain Russell C. Langdon
and Maude Semple Langdon
Home of Captain and Mrs Langdon, Camp Orenton, Mindano,
P.I.. 1910-1911.
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1910-1911 |
1/13 | 71 | Porch of quarters of Captain
Russell C. Langdon
Written on verso: Porch quarters of Capn Russell C. Langdon
3d U.S. Infantry at Camp Orenton, Mindano, Philippine Islands, March 1911.
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1911 |
box-folder:oversize | |||
OS6 | 72 |
Portait of Maude Semple
Langdon
Kennell and Ellis, Eugene and Salem, Oregon
(photographer)
Written on verso: My sister-Maude Semple Langdon-wife of
Gen. Russell C. Langdon. About 1928-Ethel Semple Swanstrom.
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circa 1928 |
folder:oversize | |||
K900 | 73 |
Portait of Maude Semple
Langdon
Written on verso: Maude Semple Langdon (Mrs. Russell
C.).
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undated |
Box/Folder | |||
1/13 | 74 |
Colonel Russell C. Langdon standing
outside in uniform
L.Blakemore
(photographer)
Written on verso: Colonel Russell C. Langdon, 2d U.S.
Infantry. Camp Guster, Michigan. Photograph taken in the grounds of the
Commanding Officer's Quarters on August 30th 1934, the day before I gave up the
command of the 2d Infantry. R.C.L.
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August 30, 1934 |
Ames relatives
The Ames are related to the Semples through James Semple and
Mary Cairn's daughter, Lucy Semple Ames who married Edgar Ames in 1860. Edgar
and Lucy Ames had four children, Ada, Henry Semple, Mary, and Edgar. Ada Ames
who later married Henry S. Turner, Henry Semple Ames, Mary Ames who married
Wayman Chushman and had a son, Henry Semple Ames who married Ann Andine
Lumaghi, and Edgar Ames. Lucy Semple Ames took over the managment of her
husband's, Edgar Ames, business interests after his death in 1867. This
included pork packing, Lindell Hotel, a sugar refinery, grain elevators,
steamship lines, and insurance and banking firms. She became president of Ames
Real Estate Company, which she managed with her son, Henry Semple Ames.
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Edgar and Lucy Semple
Ames |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/14 | 75 | circa 1890s | |
1/14 | 76 | Edgar Ames sitting in the main
parlour at Notchcliff
Written on verso: Edgar Ames in main "parlour" at
Notchcliff-probably about 1892.
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circa 1892 |
1/14 | 77 |
East view of Notchcliff
Written on verso: Notchcliff view from the East.
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circa 1890s |
1/14 | 78 | Snow on trees at
Notchcliff
Written on verso: Notchcliff. Snow scene from East
window.
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circa 1890s |
1/15 | 79 |
Portrait of Lucy Semple
Ames
Ch. Reutlinger, Paris, France
(photographer)
Written on verso: L.S.Ames
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circa 1880s-1890s |
1/15 | 80 |
Portrait of Lucy Semple
Ames
Written on verso: My dear Aunt Lucy-who raised us Semple
children in such luxury-that it was hard to be poor again when we came West
after my father's term as govenor was over. M.E. Swanstrom.
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undated |
1/15 | 81 |
Portrait of Lucy Semple Ames at
breakfast
Written on verso: Lucy V.S. Ames at breakfast in dining room
at Notchcliff.
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undated |
1/15 | 82 | Portrait of Lucy Semple Ames in
rocking chair near bedroom window
Written on verso: Notchcliff-view from window. Aunt
Lucy-Mrs. Lucy Semple Ames.
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circa 1890s |
1/15 | 83 |
Portrait of Mrs. Lucy V. Semple
Ames and Julia Marian Turner
Strauss, St. Louis
(photographer)
Julia Marian Turner is the grand-daughter of Lucy Semple
Ames.
Written on verso: Mrs Lucy V. Semple Ames, Julia Marian
Turner, 1893.
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1893 |
1/15 | 84 | View of Ames home from
street
Written on verso: Home built by Semple, Mary and Edgar Ames
about. Late occupied by Mrs. Lucy V. Semple Ames-"Aunt Lucy"-who sent this
card-Ethel Swanstrom. 3824 Lindell Boulevard. Miss Lucy Semple Swanstrom 1223
7th Ave West, Seattle, Wash.
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circa 1914 |
Henry and Edgar Ames
Henry Semple Ames, 1863-1916, and Edgar Ames are Edgar Ames
and Lucy Semple Ames' two sons. It appears that Henry Semple Ames was more
commonly referred to as Semple Ames.
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/16 | 85 |
Portrait of Henry Semple Ames as
boy
John A. Scholten, St Louis
(photographer)
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circa 1860s |
1/16 | 86 |
Portrait of Henry Semple Ames as
young man
Ch.Reutlinger, Paris, France
(photographer)
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circa 1860s-1870s |
1/16 | 87 |
Portrait of Henry Semple
Ames
F.A. Bowman, New Haven, Conn
(photographer)
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1883 |
1/16 | 88 |
Henry Semple Ames, Edgar Ames, and
others on yacht
Written on verso: Naptha launch-Virginia-owned by Semple and
Edgar Ames-of St. Louis. It was used on cruises on the Mississippi River and
usually moored at the Illinois Yacht Club at Alton, Ill. Their summer house was
Notchcliff, Elsa Ill. From left to right-Henry Sempl Ames-Mrs. George H.
Paschall (Seattle owner)-Mrs. [illegible] - Edgar Ames- Mrs. Frank Hershburg.
Mrs. Frank Hershburg [sic]-George H. Paschall. All of St. Louis about in the
early 1890s. I forget the length: but there were sleeping accomodations for six
people. I made many a happy trip on her as a young girl when I was visiting
Notchcliff. Ethel Semple Swanstrom.
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circa 1890s |
1/16 | 89 |
Lou Hayward, Deck Brody, and Semple
Ames on deck of boat
Written on photograph: Sept '95. You know them.
Virginia[illegible].
Written on verso: From left to right Lou Hayward, "Deck"
Brody, and Semple Ames on theVirginia.
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September 1895 |
1/16 | 90 |
Semple Ames and two other men
eating aboard a boat
Written on verso: Naptuna launch "Virginia" owned by Semple
and Edgar Ames of St. Louis and Notchcliff. She was usually moored at
"Illinois" yacht club at Alton. At least six people could sleep aboard. My aunt
Mrs. L.V. Ames and I took many delightful crusies up and down the river when I
was 13 and 14 and I learned to follow the view chart. Lou Hayward, Semple Ames,
and I think probably one of the Mizners.
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circa September 1895 |
1/16 | 91 |
Edgar Ames's room at
Yale
Written on verso: Perhaps Yale, Edgar Ames room.
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circa 1870s-1880s |
Ada Ames and her children Marian and Edgar
Turner
Ada Ames married Henry S. Turner, 1860-1921, and had two
children, Edgar Ames Turner and Julia Marian Ames Turner. Julia Marian is more
commonly referred to as Marian Ames Turner.
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/17 | 92 |
Portrait of Ada Ames as young
girl
John A. Scholten, St Louis
(photographer)
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before August 1864 |
1/17 | 93 |
Portrait of Ada Ames as young girl
in white hat and dress
John A. Scholten, St Louis
(photographer)
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circa 1864-1866 |
1/17 | 94 |
Portrait of Ada Ames as young girl
dressed as soldier
John A. Scholten, St Louis
(photographer)
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before August 1864 |
1/17 | 95 |
Portrait of Ada Ames as young
girl
John A. Scholten, St Louis
(photographer)
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circa 1870s |
1/17 | 96 |
Portrait of Marian Ames
Turner
J.L. Strauss, St. Louis
(photographer)
Written on verso: Married first (?) Lambert of St. L. Now
Mrs. Sydney Allen of St. Louis, Paris, and Cap D'Autile.
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circa 1895-1896 |
1/17 | 97 | Portrait of Edgar Ames Turner at 2
years old
F.W. Guerin, St. Louis
(photographer)
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May 2, 1886 |
Mary Ames Cushman and Cushman children
Mary Ames married Wayman Cushman and had two sons, Henry, born
1892, and Bobbie Cushman.
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/18 | 98 | Portrait of Mary Ames as young girl
seated in chair
John A. Scholten, St Louis
(photographer)
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circa 1864-1866 |
1/18 | 99 | Portrait of Mary Ames as young
child
John A. Scholten, St Louis
(photographer)
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after August 1866 |
1/18 | 100 |
Portrait of Mary Ames as young
girl
Ch. Reutlinger, Paris, France
(photographer)
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circa 1870s |
1/18 | 101 |
Portrait of Mary Ames as young girl
dressed in Parisian fashion
Ch. Reutlinger, Paris, France
(photographer)
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circa 1870s-1880s |
1/18 | 102 |
Mary Ames Cushman sitting on a
porch
Written on verso: Mary Ames Cushman (Mrs. Wayman Cushman)
St. Louis.
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undated |
1/18 | 103 | Possibly portrait of Henry Semple
Cushman
J.L. Strauss, St. Louis
(photographer)
Written on verso: For my great-great aunt with love from
Henry Semple Cushman. 8 months old.
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1893 |
1/18 | 104 |
Henry and Bobbie Cushman as young
boys sitting on laps of two women outside, probably at Notchcliff
estate
Written on verso: Henry and Bobbie Cushman and nurses-sons
of Mr. and Mrs. Wayman Crow Cushman (Mary Ames).
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circa 1890s |
1/18 | 105 |
Mary and Bobbie Cushman seated
outside with others
L.S.Ames
Written on verso: Mary Cushman, Bobbie, Addie Barnet,
Virginia (?), and Annie Callen my maid. Taken by me L.V.S. Ames.
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July 1904 |
Scott family
Julia Semple, daughter of Mary Cairns and James Semple, married
Ashley Scott and had four children: Mary, Ashley, Eugene, and Isabelle
Scott.
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/19 | 106 |
Portrait of Julia Semple
Scott
JA.Scholten, St. Louis, Missouri
(photographer)
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circa 1860s-1870s |
Nelson family
Photogrpahic prints were included with the Semple-Mizner
photographic collection. It is unclear how the Nelsons were related to the
Semples or Mizners.
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/20 | 107 | Amy Porter and Mr. Banks in front of
commisary building
Written on photograph: Amy Porter, Mr. Banks.
Written on verso: Old commissary building about '98. Amy
Porter is Mrs. Lombard, Mr Banks was clerk to Indian agt. Picture given me July
1939-by Mrs. Banks.
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circa 1898 |
1/20 | 108 |
Portrait of Ruth Easton
Nelson
Written on photograph: Ruth Easton Nelson own sister of
MaryAnn Easton Nelson.
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undated |
1/20 | 109 |
Portrait of MaryAnn Nelson in
mourning clothing
Duchochois & Klauser, New York
(photographer)
Written on verso: MaryAnn Nelson in mourning which she wore
for many years after the death of her daughter Marianna.
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circa 1860s |
1/20 | 110 |
Portrait of Alice Nelson at 7 years
old
Written on verso: Alice Nelson at 7 yrs wearing a garibaldi
waist dress.
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circa 1860s |
1/20 | 111 |
Portrait of Alice Nelson at 11 years
old
F.B. Clench, Lockport, New York
(photographer)
Written on verso: Alice Nelson, 11 yrs old.
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undated |
Unidentified associations to family and relatives of the
Semples and Mizners |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/21 | 112 | Post chaise and four
horses
Written on verso: Martha.
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undated |
1/21 | 113 | Portrait of child Mariette Eliza
Charles
Written on verso: Aug. 15, '98, Mariette Eliza Charles, born
Dec. 19, '94.
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August 15, 1898 |
1/21 | 114 |
Portrait of J.A. Chestnut
Charles Lainer, San Francisco
(photographer)
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1888 |
1/21 | 115 |
Drawing of woman waving a
handkerchief
Written on drawing: Betting on the Races
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circa 1890s |
Album of Washington property |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/21 | 116a-e | Various views of Matheson Family
property in Washington
Written on cover of album: Glimpse Mattheson Family on Lake
Wash.
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undated |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
Family Names
- Semple family--Photographs
Other Creators
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Family Names
- Mizner family--Photographs (photographer)