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McMicken Family Collection of Photographs of Ships, 1891-1894
Overview of the Collection
- Title
- McMicken Family Collection of Photographs of Ships
- Dates
- 1891-1894 (inclusive)18911894
- Quantity
-
32 negatives : glass
22 photographic prints ; various sizes - Collection Number
- PH0584
- Summary
- Primarily images of ships, yachts, and tugboats, taken in Washington State during the early 1890s.
- Repository
-
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
Glass plate negatives are not available for viewing. Permission of curator required. Contact Special Collection for more information. Scanned copies and some originals are available for viewing and entire collection is available on digital site.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
The McMicken Family Papers document connections between five families: the McMickens, the Parkers, the Ostranders, the Wells and the Hays who resided in Washington Territory, now Olympia, Washington. A large part of the collection describes life in the Pacific Northwest among other topics.
John Goldsbury Parker was a pioneer steamboat operator of Puget Sound and married into the Gilmore Hays family in 1853 when he wed Jerusha Jane Logan Hay. He traveled to the Northwest in 1851 by way of steamer and landed first in Oregon in 1853 and later to Olympia, Washington. Here he formed Parkers & Coulter's a schooner service that ran from Olympia to Portland, OR which operated the steamship Traveler. The 60 foot long boat was part of the first steamer run around Puget Sound. In 1876 John Goldsbury Parker operated the steamship Messenger as well as handling the United States mail service between Portland and Vancouver B.C. for a short period. In 1887 he passed his interests in steam boating to his son Gilmore Hays Parker who would go on to operate steamships such as the Greyhound , Bailey Gatzert and the City of Everett.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The collection contains glass plate negatives primarily featuring images of ships, yachts, and tugboats, taken in Washington State during the early 1890s. Among the ships pictured are the City of Seattle , the Clara Brown , and the tug Favorite , shown with crew. Additionally, there are two portraits of children and two images of houses, including one log cabin.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Alternative Forms Available
Scanned copies made from the glass plate negative originals are available for reference purposes.
Restrictions on Use
Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Processing Note
Processed by Rebekah Dalby, 2003; revised by Stefanie Terasaki, 2013.
The original photographs in this collections were relocated within the repository from the McMicken Family Papers (Accession No. 0040-001) circa April 1982 to the ships subject file and then transferred to this collection. The glass plate negatives were probably also transferred from Accession No. 0040-001.
Related Materials
McMicken Family Photograph Collection PH Coll 498.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
ShipsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Folder | item | ||
| 1 | 1 |
Bailey Gatzert The Bailey Gatzert was a stern wheeled steamer built in Ballard
in 1890, and was launched in 1891 sideways on 177 foot ways. She operated in
Puget Sound, on the Pacific Coast, and on the Columbia River. She was refitted
with an elevator in 1917 for loading cars, and was the first automobile ferry
to serve the Olympic Peninsula. She was laid up in 1926 and her hull converted
to a floating machine shop on Lake Union, but her whistle and nameboard are at
the Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, Washington. Notes from Gordon
Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle:
Superior Publishing Co, 1966).
|
April 16, 1892 |
| 1 | 2 |
Bailey Gatzert No accompanying glass plate negative. Sign on boat reads, This steamer leaves for Olympia 4pm.
|
April 16, 1892 |
| 1 | 3 | July 4, 1893 | |
| 1 | 4 |
City of Kingston, Seattle The City of Kingston was brought to
the Pacific Northwest in 1890 for the Puget Sound & Alaska Steamship Co.
and handled the company's Puget Sound - British Columbia service. Notes from
Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest
(Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).
|
undated |
| 1 | 5 |
City of Puebla S.S. City of Puebla was an iron
steamer built in Philadelphia in 1881 for the run between New York and Havana.
She was later transferred to service between Puget Sound and San Francisco in
1889. [All citations taken from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine
History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., 1966)]
|
April 17, 1892 |
| 1 | 6 |
City of Seattle The City of Seattle was built in
Philadelphia and brought to the Pacific Northwest by Captain D.B. Jackson in
1890 for the Puget Sound and Alaska Steamship Company. It was later sold to the
Pacific Coast Steamship Company in 1901. Shortly after in 1904 the ship hit a
rock near Eagle Harbor and was remodeled and refurnished with steel by 1914. In
1921 it moved to the East Coast after being bought by C.L. Dimon of Florida for
the Miami Steamship Company. After many years of service the ship was sold and
scrapped in Philadelphia in 1937.
|
Fall 1891 |
| 1 | 7 |
City of Seattle and Olympian racing into Tacoma The Olympian was a side-wheeler
steamship that was built in 1883 in Delaware. The following year it was used by
the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company for service from Seattle to Victoria
until 1886 when it switched to running the Columbia River route. The
Olympian was returned to its Puget Sound routes
shortly after and was known for not withstanding the Pacific Northwest's
environment and conditions. Around 1906 the ship was planning a trip to the
East Coast where its owners believed it would perform better but was wrecked
along the way.
|
October 13, 1891 |
| 1 | 8 |
Clara Brown The Clara Brown was a stern
wheeler built in Seattle in 1886 and carried relief supplies after the Seattle
Fire of 1889. It was permanently beached in 1907 in West Seattle.
|
April 16, 1892 |
| 1 | 9 |
Yacht
Eleanor The steam yacht Eleanor was built
in 1896 at the Bath Iron Works under the direction and design of W. A. Slater.
The yacht was bought in 1898 by Mrs. James W. Martinez-Cardeza, a future
Titanic passenger who used the boat to travel to
Europe and Canada. In 1900 the Eleanor was bought
and transfered from Brooklyn to the Great Lakes by the president of the Great
Northern Railroad, J.J. Hill who renamed the boat Wacouta.
|
undated |
| 1 | 10 | undated | |
| 1 | 11 | April 16, 1892 | |
| 1 | 12 |
Fleetwood The Fleetwood was built in 1881 in Portland, Oregon and ran
routes along the Columbia River and in Puget Sound. In 1889, it was placed on
the Seattle-Tacoma route alongside the Flyer. In
1898, the ship was abandoned in Quartermaster Harbor.
|
undated |
| 1 | 13 |
Flyer The Flyer ran the Seattle-Tacoma
route from 1891-1918 and occasionally the Seattle-Everett route, making about
four round trips daily. In 1918 the Flyer was
re-built and re-named the Washington and was sent
to the Navy for war service after which it returned to Puget Sound and
occasionally ran until 1929.
On verso: Seattle- Tacoma route.
|
December 4, 1891 |
| 1 | 14 | undated | |
| 1 | 15 |
Greyhound The Greyhound was built in
Portland, Oregon by Captain Claud Toup and was soon moved to Puget Sound as a
passenger vessel from Seattle to Tacoma. From 1891 to 1903 it was transferred
to the Seattle-Everett route. The Greyhound was
known for its speed and successfully raced many other pacific northwest ships
including the Fleetwood, Multnomah, and the
Bailey Gatzert.
|
undated |
| 1 | 16 |
Henry Bailey Named after the steamboat captain, Henry Bailey, the steamship
was built in Tacoma, Washington around 1888. It ran from Seattle to various
other towns and cities in Puget Sound under the ownership of the Pacific
Navigation Company. The Henry Bailey is considered
part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet, a large number of passenger boats and
steamers that operated in Puget Sound under the direction of various private
transportation companies that connected the water ports and settlements of the
Puget Sound.
|
undated |
| 1 | 17 | 1891 | |
| 1 | 18 | undated | |
| 1 | 19 | October 4, 1894 | |
| 1 | 20 |
North Pacific docked The North Pacific was a side wheel
steamship built in San Francisco, California started operating in Puget Sound
in 1871 and in 1898 it traveled from Seattle to Alaska carrying passengers for
the Alaska Goldrush. It sank in 1903 after hitting a rock off of Marrowstone
Point in Port Townsend.
|
undated |
| 1 | 21a |
North Pacific No accompanying negative.
|
undated |
| 1 | 21b | October 1893 | |
| 1 | 22 |
Phra Nang The Phra Nang was a British steamer
that arrived in Seattle in the 1892 to connect Seattle and Puget Sound to the
East.
|
June 17, 1892 |
| 1 | 23a |
Premier The Premier, a steel passenger boat
with wooden upperworks, was constructed by the Union Iron works, San Francisco,
in 1887 for the Canadian Pacigfic Navigation Co. and ran between Vancouver,
Victoria and Puget sound ports. The Premier left
Port Townsend on October 8, 1902, bound for Seattle. Due to heavy fog and
confusion between the Premier, the iron steam
collier Willamette, laden with 2,700 tons of coal
bound for San Francisco and the City of Kingston
bound for Port Townsend the Willamette hit the
Premier at a 45-degree angle on the port side.
Surviving passengers were dispatched to Seattle aboard another ship. Four
passengers were killed and at least twenty injured. Almost 24 hours were
required to separate the two vessels with the assistance of a tug. The
Premier was repaired and put into service under
Canadian registery as the Charmer. Notes from
Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest
(Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).
|
April 16, 1892 |
| 1 | 23b | 1894 | |
| 1 | 24a-c | ||
| 1 | 25 | ||
| 1 | 26a | 1893 | |
| 1 | 26b | Tugboat
Tyee , Tacoma No accompanying negative.
|
1893-1894 |
| 1 | 27-28 | ||
| 1 | 29 |
Victorian, Seattle The Victorian was built in Portland
in 1891 for service from Seattle to Victoria.
|
April 2, 1892 |
| 1 | 30 |
MiscellaneousReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Folder | item | ||
| 1 | 31 | 1891 | |
| 1 | 32 | 1891 | |
| 1 | 33 |
Job Carrs' log
cabin Job Carr was a pioneer who settled in Tacoma, Washington and
built his cabin in 1865. He went on to be an important part of Tacoma's growth
as a city and was its first Mayor.
|
April 13, 1892 |
| 1 | 34 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Docks--Washington (State)--Photographs
- Ships--Washington (State)--Photographs
- Tugboats--Washington (State)--Photographs
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
- Yachts--Washington (State)--Photographs
