University of Washington Libraries, Special CollectionsPH0695Davis, M lanie ZwangMelanie Zwang Davis
photograph collectioncirca 1860-195018 photographic prints (1 box) ; various sizesCollection materials are in
English.Photographs of
several Jewish families, including the Oppenheimer and Zwang families, who
immigrated from Germany to the United States and settled in Marcus,
Washington In 1871, Herman Zwang (1854-1931), emigrated from Germany to the town
of Marcus in the Washington Territory. He lived with his uncle Marcus
Oppenheimer in a log cabin. Zwang returned to Germany in 1888, where he and his
wife had three children: Clara, Saul, and Melanie, who was born in Sennfeld in
1891. Zwang returned to Washington with his family in 1897, settling in Marcus
in 1900. The Zwangs were one of only two Jewish families in the town of 300
(the Wurzburg family was the other one). Melanie attended the Marcus Public
School, and later worked in the Zwang general store. Melanie Zwang married Sol
Davis in 1923, and later moved to Seattle.
The town of Marcus, Washington, was named for Marcus Oppenheimer, who
settled there in 1862. The town provided supplies to miners heading north to
the Canadian gold fields. With the arrival of rail service in the 1880s, Marcus
became a shipping and logging center. The town was incorporated in 1910, but
was relocated in the 1930s when the original townsite was submerged under the
waters of Lake Roosevelt during the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam.
Photographs of Melanie Zwang Davis and members of her family, taken in
Germany and in Marcus, Washington. Includes studio and informal portraits,
photos of groups of children and adults, and the Zwang family home and store in
Marcus.
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Melanie Zwang Davis, November 1988
Processed by Erika Wilson, 2009
These photographs were relocated from the Melanie Zwang Davis papers
acc. no. 3637-002 in 1985 and 1989
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Family photographs from Germany11Melanie, Clara, and Saul Zwang as
children in Germanycirca 1896Curt Kubica, Heilbronn,
Germany 12Possibly Mr. and Mrs. Herman Zwang, or
relatives of the Zwang familycirca 1880-1890Curt Kubica, Heilbronn,
Germany 23G. Oppenheimer and woman (probably his
wife)circa 1860s-1870sF. Berrer, Heilbronn,
Germany "Onkel" (uncle) written on verso. Oppenheimer was probably
Melanie Davis's great uncle.
24G. Oppenheimer and woman (probably his
wife) circa 1880-1890C. Kohler, Heilbronn,
Germany35Woman (possibly a Zwang family member)
wearing white dress and boacirca 1880-1890J. Kleiber, Ludwigsburg
or Cannstatt, Germany36Woman (possibly a Zwang family member)
standing next to a chair, circa 1900-1910J.W. Hornung, Tuebingen,
Germany37Woman (possibly a Zwang family member)
seated in a chaircirca 1900-1910Arthur Hoffschild,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany48Large group of children and adults
posed in front of a stone building (possibly a school in Germany)circa 1890-1900 49Group of adults and two children posed
in front of a stone building in Germanycirca 1920-1930sChristoph Brandt,
Heilbronn, GermanyPhotographs of Zwang family and friends in Washington
State510Group in front of school in Marcus,
Washingtoncirca 1900 Saul Zwang is in the front row, fourth from the left.
511Melanie Zwang Daviscirca 1923-1930sWalters, Seattle,
Washington 512Saul Zwang and Sid Wurzburg in front of
the Zwang-Wurzburg general store in Marcuscirca 1920-1930 613Guests at a costume partycirca 1910s 614Zwang family and friends in
Marcuscirca 1923-1930s Identified on back, left to right: Melanie Zwang Davis, Sol
Davis, Marcus Oppenheimer, [unknown], Saul Zwang, Jeanette Wurzburg (wife of
Sid Wurzburg), and Bill Grove (Melanie Zwang Davis' brother-in-law).
Note on verso is incorrect as to one identification, per son of
Sidney Wurzburg: Jeannette Wurzburg was the sister of Sidney Wurzburg, not his
wife.
Writtten on back: "Taken in Marcus Wa. before flooded by
dam."
615 Zwang family home in Marcus with Clara
and Melanie Zwang on the front porchcirca 1930s Written on back: "Home in Marcus, Wa--shortly after construction
began on dam which flooded area."
716Saul Zwang in officecirca 1940-1950 717Two people outside a houseundated718Portrait of a seated woman (possibly
Melanie Zwang Davis) with a corsageundatedH.C. Capwell Co,
Oakland, CA : hand-colored