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Schwabacher Family photograph collection, approximately 1899-1950
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Schwabacher family
- Title
- Schwabacher Family photograph collection
- Dates
- approximately 1899-1950 (inclusive)18991950
- Quantity
- 21 photographic prints (5 folders) ; various sizes
- Collection Number
- PH1083
- Summary
- Photographs of Schwabacher Bros. & Company and executive Nathan Eckstein and family
- 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
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Entire collection can be viewed on the Libraries' Digital Collections website. Permission of Visual Materials Curator is required to view originals. Contact Special Collections for more information.
- Additional Reference Guides
- Languages
- English
Historical BackgroundReturn to Top
Schwabacher Bros. & Company was founded in 1860 in Walla Walla by three Bavarian Jewish immigrants, Louis Schwabacher, Abraham Schwabacher, and Sigmund Schwabacher. In 1869, the brothers opened a wholesale mercantile store in Seattle which was headed by Bailey Gatzert, who later served as mayor of Seattle in 1893. The business grew to encompass dry goods, clothing, groceries, hardware, and much more, and supplied prospectors on their way to the Yukon during the Klondike gold rush.
Nathan Eckstein (1873-1945) was the German-born son-in-law of Abraham Schwabacher. Eckstein became vice president and later chief executive officer of the company, also serving on the Seattle School Board (1913-1920), Washington State Tax Commission, the City Charter Commission, and many other civic organizations. He received the 1926 "Seattle's Most Useful Citizen" award.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The photographs document the Schwabacher Hardware Company and staff including executive Nathan Eckstein and his wife Mina Schwabacher Eckstein and daughter Joanna.
Other Descriptive InformationReturn to Top
Forms part of the Washington State Jewish Archives.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
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
Schwabacher Hardware CompanyReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
---|---|---|---|
Folder | item | ||
1 | 1 | circa 1900-1915 | |
box-folder:oversize | |||
OS6 | 2 | undated | |
box:oversize | |||
JD1 | 3 |
Men at banquet
Leo Schwabacher sitting in front on left; Nathan Eckstein on
same side, fifth from front
|
December 1899 |
Folder | |||
1 | 4 |
Schwabacher Hardware Company baseball
team in uniforms
Copy print in PH Coll 650 Ladd, Bob.2
|
1909 |
box:oversize | |||
JH1 | 5 |
Panorama photograph of the first annual
picnic of the Schwabacher Hardware Co. employees
Kneisle, J. J., Seattle
(photographer)
|
May 14, 1921 |
Folder | |||
1 | 6 |
Schwabacher sales force meeting group
picture on sales floor with Mayflower refrigerators and other
products
Webster & Stevens, Seattle
(photographer)
Morton Schwabacher in front row, third from left
|
circa 1932 |
1 | 7 |
Schwabacher sales force
banquet
Mulholland Studios, Seattle
(photographer)
Morton Schwabacher standing at head of table
|
circa 1930s |
1 | 8 |
Copy photo of Pioneer Square showing
totem pole with Schwabacher store at right and Northern Pacific Railway ticket
office at left
Wilse, A.B., Seattle
(photographer)
|
circa 1900 |
1 | 9 | circa 1900-1910 | |
1 | 10 | circa 1903 | |
box-folder:oversize | |||
OS6 | 11 | circa 1900-1910 | |
box:oversize | |||
JD1 | 12 | undated | |
box-folder:oversize | |||
OS6 | 13 |
Exterior of State Building at corner of
S. Main St. and Occidental Ave. S., Seattle
Mulholland Studios, Seattle
(photographer)
Built 1890-91 as Schwabacher Hardware wholesale/warehouse
facility
|
circa 1950 |
Nathan Eckstein and familyReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
---|---|---|---|
Folder | item | ||
2 | 14 | 1902 | |
2 | 15 |
Nathan Eckstein at his desk with
several bouquets of flowers
Webster & Stevens, Seattle
(photographer)
|
circa 1917-1921 |
2 | 16 | circa 1920s-1930s | |
2 | 17 |
Mina (Schwabacher) Eckstein
Field, Seattle
(photographer)
|
1917 |
2 | 18 |
Group of people next to airplane,
including Mayor Bertha Landes, Congressman Miller, William Boeing, and Nathan
Eckstein
Asahel Curtis (51423)
(photographer)
Written on verso: Opening air-plane service Service - Portland.
Wm. Boeing; N. Eckstein; Mayor, Mrs. Landes; Congressman Miller; Al. Lundin
|
1927 |
2 | 19 | circa 1930s | |
2 | 20 | circa 1930s | |
2 | 21 |
Home of Nathan and Mina
Eckstein
Written on verso: 1000? 14th Avenue East, Seattle,
Washington.
|
undated |