Frank A. Jacobs Photographs, 1900-1940 PDF
Overview of the Collection
- Photographer
- Jacobs, Frank A., 1881-1979
- Title
- Frank A. Jacobs Photographs
- Dates
- 1900-1940 (inclusive)19001940
- Quantity
- 24 photographic prints (3 folders) ; sizes vary
- Collection Number
- PH0137
- Summary
- Photographs of Seattle scenes, Seattle groups, and climbers and mountaineers in Mount Rainier National Park.
- Repository
- University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 206-543-1929
Fax: 206-543-1931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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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
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Photojournalist Frank Abner Jacobs (1881-1979) was born in Kansas on December 31, 1881, and settled in Seattle, Washington in 1907. He spent the 1920s as the official photographer for the Rainier National Park Company. Jacobs was a pioneer in the field of photojournalism, and covered events big and small throughout the Pacific Northwest, but specialized in transportation disasters such as ship and train wrecks. Jacobs had been interested in photography since he was a boy and opened his own photography studio at 4th Avenue and Union Street, Seattle, circa 1908. Although he spent most of his career with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, starting in 1909, he also had stints with other publications, ran his own photography studio (Jacobs Photo Shop), served as an early motion picture cameraman, starting circa 1911, for the Pathe News, and had the opportunity to photograph eight Presidents. He became the first photographer to take aerial photographs of Seattle in 1913.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The collection consists of photographs of Seattle scenes, Seattle groups, and mountaineering expeditions in Mount Rainier National Park.
Other Descriptive InformationReturn to Top
The dates in this collection were taken from the photographer's numbering system in which the first two numbers are the year that the photograph was taken.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
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Restrictions on Use
Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Seattle, WashingtonReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
---|---|---|---|
Folder | item | ||
1 | 1 |
View from 2nd Ave at Pike St. of
people, cars, and street car tracks outside the Peoples Savings Bank and
Bigelow Buildings
Printed on verso: Pike, looking east from 2nd Ave.
|
between 1920 and 1940 |
1 | 2 | between 1920 and 1940 | |
1 | 3 |
View looking southeast and down across
the roofs of 3rd Ave. and Union St. (Jacobs 715)
Written on verso: Post Intelligencer block SW corner Union/4th,
White Bldg./U.S. Post Office.
|
1917? |
1 | 4 | 1920? | |
1 | 5 |
Postcard of the Theodora Home, 6559-35th
N.E.
Written on image: Owned and operated by The Volunteers of America.
|
between 1914 and 1930? |
1 | 6 |
Capitol Auto Laundry and Service
Station, 1816 Broadway, Seattle, Washington
Written on verso: Auto Laundry & service station Stucco up
to date Bldg built 1929. Hot water heated. A view of auto and service station
store brick Veneer other [ill.].
|
1929? |
box:oversize | |||
OS1 | 7 | 1906 | |
OS1 | 8 |
Interior of John L. Bird Company Office
Supplies store, Seattle, WA
|
1916? |
Folder | |||
1 | 9 | between 1900 and 1930 | |
1 | 10 | 1916? | |
Potlatch Parade, Seattle,
WA
|
|||
Folder | item | ||
1 | 11 |
Float with a canoe on top (Jacobs 34)
Written on image: Golden Potlatch. Seattle.
|
1912 |
1 | 12 | 1912 | |
1 | 13 | 1912 |
People and GroupsReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
---|---|---|---|
Folder | item | ||
OS1 | 14 |
George F. Cotterill holding a newspaper and standing in
front buildings, Seattle, WA
George F. Cotterill was a civil servant and elected official in
Seattle and the state of Washington for more than 40 years.
|
between 1900 and 1930 |
1 | 15 | between 1900 and 1930 | |
1 | 16 |
Group portrait of the Daughters of the
Pioneers of Washington dressed in pioneer costumes, Seattle, WA
Written on verso: A Day in the Sixties --
February 1937. This annual affair for members and guests in Seattle
Chapter No. 1 of the Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington. Margaret Ashworth
Maxson (Mrs. Louis H.) was President of the Chapter. In the center, front Mrs.
Edmond Bowden was turned sideways to show the sunbonnet which her mother made
and wore. Mrs. Bowden (Angie Burt Bowden) wrote: Early
Schools of Washington Territory. Note--The photo widened the right-hand third
of the group.
|
1937 |
box:oversize | |||
XC1 | 17 |
Large group outside brick
building
|
between 1900 and 1930 |
MountaineeringReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
---|---|---|---|
Folder | item | ||
1 | 18-20 | 1920 | |
1 | 21 | 1920 | |
1 | 22 | 1920 | |
1 | 23 | 1920 | |
1 | 24 |
Group portrait
of men and women with hiking poles in Paradise Valley, WA (Jacobs
21736)
Written on verso: University party with Dean Landis as
guide.
|
Aug. 6, 1921 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
- Subject Terms :
- Mountaineering--Washington (State)--Mount Rainier National Park--Photographs
- Mountaineers--Washington (State)--Mount Rainier National Park--Photographs
- Geographical Names :
- Mount Rainier National Park (Wash.)--Photographs