Wayside Mission Hospital Photograph Collection, between 1900 and 1909

From the periodical, The Commonwealth, Seattle, Wash., May 23, 1903, Vol 2, No. 11, pg 3: The Wayside Mission, whose habituation and hospital is the old Sound steamer “IDAHO” at the foot of Jackson street. This half tone shows the old boat raised on a “gridiron,” established at a large outlay of money and labor.

From the periodical, The Commonwealth, Seattle, Wash., May 23, 1903, Vol 2, No. 11, pg 3: The bride in this scene has been one of the inmates of the hospital, and latterly a nurse in its service. The groom is one of Seattle’s most industrious and most promising young citizens. Several wedding scenes of this kind have brightened the tragic life of the Wayside Mission. [ Dr. Alexander de Soto is pictured near the right of the group with his arms around two boys.]

Dr. de Soto is in the back of the hallway in the doorway on the left.

Written on verso: Dr. de Soto holding hand of patient while anesthesia is administered. Note surgical blood catcher on the wall.

From the periodical, The Commonwealth, Seattle, Wash., May 23, 1903, Vol 2, No. 11, pg 3: Surgical ward of the Wayside Mission Hospital, where almost every day the frequent accidents of the industrial waterfront are treated and where emergency cases receive quick and expert care. This is one of the special advantages of this location.

Written on verso: Note equipment on table to catch blood.

From the periodical, The Commonwealth, Seattle, Wash., May 23, 1903, Vol 2, No. 11, pg 3: Section of the Wayside Mission Hospital, showing the free dispensary, where prescriptions are filled and all needed medicines supplied without prying into the deserving or undeserving character of the sick and poor.

From the periodical, The Commonwealth, Seattle, Wash., May 23, 1903, Vol 2, No. 11, pg 3: The ward room of the Wayside Mission Hospital ship. Here the kindly humanitarianism of the founder has provided a place, enviable indeed, for the pain-racked or fever-burned unfortunate.

From the periodical, The Commonwealth, Seattle, Wash., May 23, 1903, Vol 2, No. 11, pg 3: Mother and child, inmates of the Wayside Mission Hospital, where the child was born. The physician in the picture is Dr. de Soto, the founder of the Mission, and always in close association with its work and in sympathy with its sorrows and joys.

Written on verso: Dr. de Soto's room aboard the Wayside Mission Hospital. Note the pencil holder (skull).

Written on verso: Wayside Mission Hospital. Seattle's first established hospital built 1891 on the hull of the old steamship, Idaho, by Dr. Alexander de Soto, son of a Spanish General, and Capt. Amos O. Benjamin, pioneer shipmaster. It was moored at the foot of Jackson St. and was supported by citizens who banded together under the name of the Seattle Benevolent Society. [The text on verso is incorrect. It was not the 'first established hospital,' it was the first emergency hospital. It was not built in 1891, it was built in 1899.]