A.C. Warner was a staff photographer for the Northern Pacific Railway when he first came to Washington Territory. Born in Massachusetts in 1864, his youth had been spent in Minnesota where he studied photography and found the job that took him to the Far West in 1886. In Seattle, Warner soon formed a short-lived partnership with one Davis, working jointly to make and sell some fairly conventional views of Seattle, the ships on Elliott Bay, and the mills along the waterfront. In 1888, he was engaged by John Muir to join a Mount Rainier climbing expedition. His personal account of the first historic use of the camera on the upper slopes and at the summit of the mountain was published in
After Warner married Edith Randolph, the daughter of the well-to-do Captain Simon Peter Randolph, he formed a business partnership with his father-in-law. S.P. Randolph may have furnished the necessary capital and Warner the essential camera and legwork for an adventure in Gold Rush photography in Alaska. In the summers of 1898, 1899 and 1900, Warner went to Alaska as a prospector, a packer and a photographer. The cartouche on the reverse of his Alaskan cabinet mounts provides a Seattle address and gives an indication that the Alaskan specialty of Warner was in views of Skagway, Dyea and the Chilkoot Pass.
After 1900, Warner remained in Seattle to pursue several lines of work - as a photographer for the publisher Lowman and Hanford, as a confectioner with a shop in the Seattle Hotel on Second Ave., and as a sales agent for the landscape paintings and photographs of Albert Henry Barnes of Tacoma who died in 1920. After Barnes death, Warner became more active in his own photographic enterprises, continuing until his death in 1943. In 1925 he commenced the Warner Projection Company and found a ready market for art deco projection slides to be used with cartoons and the lyrics of popular songs which might be projected on the theater screen. In addition, together with his wife, Warner presented illustrated lectures on the wild flowers of western Washington.
The images in the collection are arranged in two parts: photographs that have been determined most likely to have been made by A.C. Warner; and photographs acquired by A.C. Warner from other collectors and sources. These photographs are either by known photographers, or, if the creator is unidentified, not likely attributed to A.C. Warner.
Arranged in 2 series.
Images of Seattle, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Washington localities including A.C. Warner's August 1888 Mt Rainier summit climb, the Klondike and Nome Gold Rushes, Native Alaskans, ships, the Warner family and the partnerships of Warner and Davis and Warner and Randolph.
Selected images can be viewed on the Libraries' Digital Collections website. Permission required to view originals. Contact Special Collections for more information.
Status of creator's copyrights is unknown; restrictions may exist on copying, quotation, or publication. Users are responsible for researching copyright status before use.
Title of some images revised to align with harmful language guidelines, 2022.
The following items are photographs that have been determined most likely to have been made by A.C. Warner.
Written on front right lower corner of item 3a: LH322.
A. C. Warner worked for the Lowman and Hanford Stationery and Printing Company from about 1903 to 1910.
Item 5b is an altered version of item 5a with Mount Rainier drawn in on the horizon.
Shows the First Methodist-Episcopal Church being built on the southeast corner of the 3rd Ave. and Marion St.
Items 8a and 8b are different cropped versions of the same image.
Written in lower left corner: LH309.
A. C. Warner worked for the Lowman and Hanford Stationery and Printing Company from about 1903 to 1910.
C. F. Wallin together with J. W. Nordstrom, established a shoe business, Wallin & Nordstrom, on 2nd Ave. in 1901. In 1930 the grand opening of the remodeled Second Avenue store marked the change of name to Nordstrom's.
Written in lower right corner: LH247
A. C. Warner worked for the Lowman and Hanford Stationery and Printing Company from about 1903 to 1910.
Banner across 2nd Ave. reads "
Image taken before the construction of the L.C. Smith
Building that began in 1911 and was finished in 1914. Sign in window reads: "
Shows the Scurrey Building and the First Methodist Episcopal Church at 3rd Ave. and Marion St. on the right.
Written in lower left corner: LH 271.
A. C. Warner worked for the Lowman and Hanford Stationery and Printing Company from about 1903 to 1910. The Alaska Building on the corner of Cherry St. and 2nd Ave. was constructed in 1904.
Written in lower left corner. A.C. Warner. LH266.
A. C. Warner worked for the Lowman and Hanford Stationery and Printing Company from about 1903 to 1910. The Third Avenue Theater was demolished during the regrade on 3rd Ave.
The Corner Market Building at Pike Place Market was erected in 1911-1912 when the hotel was razed in 1910.
This building was destroyed in the fire of June 6, 1889.
Mill Street was later renamed Yesler Way and Front Street was later renamed 1st Avenue.
Item 49b is a cropped version of item 49a.
Item 50b is a cropped version of item 50a.
Written in lower left corner: LH292.
A. C. Warner worked for the Lowman and Hanford Stationery and Printing Company from about 1903 to 1910.
Items 63a and 63b were both taken at about the same time.
A third story was added in 1912 for a new Fire Alarm Office. The horses were replaced by motorized vehicles from 1911 to 1916.
The King Street Station was completed for the Great Northern Railroad in 1906.
2-part panorama.
Built in 1890-91 as the Pontius School, it was renamed the Columbia School and then again in 1910 to the Lowell School. In 1904 an addition to the north side of the building increased the number of classrooms to 16.
The church is now called All Pilgrims Christian Church.
The Paterson family were neighbors of A. C. Warner.
Shows the Seattle Gas and Electric Co.'s gas works at 5th Ave. and Jackson St, (lower right) which was razed for the construction of the Union Pacific Train Station in 1910.
The King County Courthouse (completed in 1890) was located between 7th Ave. and 8th Ave., Terrace St. and Alder St.
Handwritten on verso: Dr. Eagleson's house, Thompson House (Ranke's), 9th and Madison, Capt. Pearson's house.
Handwritten on verso: First Hill, built 1902. Spaulding and Umbrecht, archts.
Item 84b is a cropped version of item 8a.
The Cathedral was dedicated in 1907. On February 2, 1916, the 60-foot dome that crowned the cathedral collapsed under the weight of heavy snow accumulation. The dome was never rebuilt and cathedral reopened on March 18, 1917.
Items 85a and 85b are different cropped versions of the same photograph.
The Mercer School opened in 1890 and was located at the northwest corner of Fourth Ave. N. and Valley St. A four-room addition was opened in 1892.
The two water tanks on Queen Anne at 110 Lee St. were built in 1900-1901.
Two water tanks on Queen Anne Hill (background upper right) at 110 Lee St. were built in 1900-1901.
The Green Lake Electric Railway was organized by Dr. Edward C. Kilbourne, one of the founders of Fremont, and entrepreneur William D. Wood in 1891.
Built in 1910, this building was the home of the Pioneer Association of the State of Washington.
Construction of this station commenced on July 6, 1881 with funds appropriated from Congress for a fog signal and lighthouse on West Point, a sandy point that extends into Puget Sound from the base of Magnolia Bluff.
In 1881 the Oregon Improvement Company built its Ocean Dock between Main and Jackson Streets. It was destroyed in the Great Seattle Fire of 1889.
Handwritten on verso: Loading coal for Frisco at Seattle. Pacific Coast Coal Co. Dock.
Shows the Lilly-Bogardus Dock at Pier C (left) and the Pacific Coast Co. at Pier A and B (center right).
Item 103b is a cropped version of item 103a.
A cropped version of Item 106a.
Shows the steamboat
In 1908 a clock was added and a domed waiting room was
installed at the Colman Dock. On the evening of April 25, 1912, the steamship
The
Written in lower left corner: LH302
A. C. Warner worked for the Lowman and Hanford Stationery and Printing Company from about 1903 to 1910.
Written in lower left corner: LH301
A. C. Warner worked for the Lowman and Hanford Stationery and Printing Company from about 1903 to 1910.
Possibly the commercial steamship
Handwritten beneath image:
On July 20, 1905 Baron Komura (Marquess Komura Jutarō), a
Japanese diplomat, arrived in Seattle on the steamer
Written in lower right corner: LH298
A. C. Warner worked for the Lowman and Hanford Stationery and Printing Company from about 1903 to 1910.
Written on photo: Photo by Lowman & Hanford.
A. C. Warner worked for the Lowman and Hanford Stationery and Printing Company from about 1903 to 1910.
Established in 1890, Madison Park featured a large pavilion, a boathouse, piers, a promenade, and two floating bandstands with shoreline seating.
Also known as Beede's Madison Street Pavilion, this structure was constructed in 1890 and burned in 1914. George K. Beede was an entrepreneur who developed the Madison Park recreation center, a combined bathing spot, canoe rental business, and performance venue. Beede staged a variety of shows here, from band concerts under the complex's two gazebos to dramatic performances in the theatre.
Hand tinted.
Item 152b is a cropped version of item 152a.
Written on photo: Photo by Lowman and Hanford. 329
A. C. Warner worked for the Lowman and Hanford Stationery and Printing Company from about 1903 to 1910.
Sign at lower left reads:
A. C. Warner worked for the Lowman and Hanford Stationery and Printing Company from about 1903 to 1910.
Item 164b is a cropped version of item 164a.
Written on verso of item 164b: Mrs. Harmon.
In 1903 the Lake Washington Cable Railway Co. donated its Leschi Park menagerie to the city, which relocated the animals to Woodland Park. The expanded collection included elk, bear, deer, eagles, a pair of ostriches, and a coatimundi.
Shows the Colonnade Hotel to the right.
Shows the Eitel Building at the corner of 2nd and Pike under construction.
Shows the Eitel Building at the corner of 2nd and Pike under construction.
Shows the Madison Street Cable Railway company car on wooden trestle in front of the partially demolished 3rd Ave. Theatre.
From additional inventory: E. S. Ingraham residence
St. James Cathedral, dedicated in 1907, can be seen at far left.
Shows the First Methodist Protestant Church at the southeast corner of 3rd Ave. and Pine St. and St. James Cathedral on the horizon.
During April and May of 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt
participated in a eight-week, 25-state tour of the American West that was
partially a campaign tour, but also used to advocate for the conservation of
natural resources. In Washington state, he visited, among other places, the
capitol city of Olympia, Tacoma, and Seattle. Traveling north from the Columbia
River, he gave “whistle stop” speeches at Kalama, Chehalis and Centralia. After
boarding the steamer
On November 13, 1905, in celebration of its’ 54th birthday, the city of Seattle dedicated a monument on Alki Point in West Seattle, marking the site of the Denny Party landing in 1851. After the unveiling of the granite monument referred to as the Founder's Pylon, Professor Edmond Meany addressed the crowd that was partially composed of some of the members of the original landing party and their relatives. In his speech, Meany retold the story of the landing and ended his speech with a special tribute to the pioneer wives.
People in photo left to right: Carson D. Boren, Mary A. Denny, Rolland H. Denny, Mary Low Sinclair.
Inscribed on monument:
The Great White Fleet arrived in Seattle on May 23,1908. The visit was part of a 14-month cruise around the world by the 16 battleships and 14,000 sailors of the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet. The fleet left Norfolk, Virginia, on December 16, 1907, arriving in Seattle in May of the following year by way of South America and San Francisco. The cruise was a exhibition of U.S. fighting abilities, particularly to the Empire of Japan, which had recently defeated Russia in a sea battle. Festivities in Seattle included parades up 2nd Avenue to the cheers of 300,000 people and the presentation of the key to the city (made from Klondike gold) to Rear Admiral C.S. Sperry, commander of the fleet, by Seattle Mayor John F. Miller. The fleet departed Seattle on May 27th.
Twelve bear cubs, brought from the city of Aberdeen to be presented as mascots to the battleships, were paraded through the streets of Seattle during the welcome festivities for the Great White Fleet. Each was led by a prominent citizen of Aberdeen and the antics of the cubs caused much laughter. Before the reviewing stand was reached the little fellows looked too tired to walk and the men had to carry them.
The 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) held in Seattle, Washington, was the spectacular result of nearly 10 million dollars and four years of effort. The Klondike Gold Rush made Seattle the dominant city in the Pacific Northwest, as the major supplier to Alaska. The goal of the 1909 AYPE was to show off the growth and development of the Pacific Northwest, specifically Seattle, and to display the value of commercial trade with the Pacific Rim. When Japan agreed to participate, the AYPE became a truly international, multi-cultural event, which planners of the AYPE hoped would demonstrate cooperation between people from around the world. On a less philosophical level, city officials also hoped that the exposition would encourage people to relocate to the growing metropolis of Seattle.
Also depicts an exposition building under construction, possibly the Alaska Building.
Richard Edwin Brooks (1865–1919) sculpted the statue of William Henry Seward by for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
The Statue of William Henry Seward by Richard Edwin Brooks (1865–1919) was created in 1909 for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and moved to Volunteer Park in 1910. William Henry Seward was United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States Senator. He also negotiated the Alaska Purchase in 1867.
The U.S. War Department established the Commission on Training Camp Activities (C.T.C.A.), in 1917 to develop a recreational morale program for the American military camps and training centers during WWI. The C.T.C.A. was disbanded in 1919.
The marker was erected by the Ann Washington Chapter (Mount Vernon) of the Daughters of the American Revolution with the assistance from UW Professor Edmond Meany.
Located on Cascade Bay the Rosario Resort was originally built as a private estate by Seattle ship-builder Robert Moran between 1906 and 1918.
On Friday, October 21, 1904, a dedication ceremony took
place for this monument at English Camp, arranged by Professor Edmond Meany of
the University of Washington. The monument marks the site of the British
commander’s residence, which was at one time occupied by Captain George
Bazalgette. On the monument are the following inscriptions: "
Item 423b is a cropped version of item 423a.
Items 425b and 425c are cropped versions of item 425a.
Item 426b is a cropped version of item 426a.
In 1897 businessman William T. Baker formed the Snoqualmie Falls Power Company and bought Snoqualmie Falls and the surrounding land with the intent of building a power plant. Construction of the plant began in 1898. The first operational generator was online and began to transmit power to Seattle on July 31, 1899. A large rock in the center of the brink, known as Seattle Rock, was dynamited in 1900, after causing too many logjams near the top.
Item 429b is a cropped version of item 429a.
In 1888, photographer Arthur Churchill Warner was engaged by
John Muir to join a Mt. Rainier climbing expedition as a working member of a
small party that would also include Major Edward S. Ingraham, the Californian
artist William Keith, a young scientist named Charles V. Piper, Henry Loomis,
Norman O. Booth, Daniel Waldo Bass, young Joe Stampfler and John Hays who
tended the horses, the guides Indian Henry and Philemon Beecher Van Trump. This
would be the first historic use of a camera at the summit of the mountain. His
personal account of this ascent was published in 1956 in "
From accompanying material: At Kernahan's cabin John Muir sat apart from his crippled host and other guests. L. to r.: The Kernahan boy, Joseph Stampfler, the artist William Keith, John Muir, Mr. and Mrs. James B. Kernahan, Henry Loomis, and the Kernahan's daughter.
Two conflicting accompanying notes state that this photo may have been either taken on the ascent or descent from Mt. Rainier.
From accompanying material: The first photograph of Longmire Springs, probably made during the photographer's descent from the mountain on August 18, 1888. The figures l. to r. are: an unidentified man, Henry Loomis, an unidentified woman, Mrs. James B. Longmire, two children seated in foreground, and (in the chair) a Mrs. Johnson who was a guest of the Longmires.
Note affixed to verso of item 491b: Longmire Springs, August 12th, 1888. Henry Loomis, near the bath house. Mrs. James Longmire second to the right. Picture by A.C. Warner.
Item 491b is a cropped version of item 491a.
From accompanying material: Warner's technique seldom allowed a close-up or individual portrait. In this view, nearly indistinguishable beside his small tent, is the artist William Keith, who accompanied Muir to the Northwest. Pinnacle Peak formed a background for Keith's trailside sketch.
From accompanying material: The southern slope of Mount Rainier as photographed across an alpine meadow with a profusion of trees and wildflowers. Warner was deeply impressed by such scenes and attempted to record them with his camera and describe them in his letter to his father.
2-part panorama.
From accompanying material: One of this pair has been captioned by Warner as "Spur of the Cascades and Paradise Valley." These slightly overlapping views appear to represent the photographer's only attempt to create panoramic views of the then popular type.
Written on photo: Mt. Rainier from Crater Lake.
In 1883, Crater Lake was named by geologist Bailey Willis with the belief that it was located in a volcanic crater. When Willis discovered his mistake many years later, the name was changed.
From accompanying material: Mount Rainier and Gilbralter Rock (right) with most members of Muir's party resting in the flowers and grass, lower left. Indian Henry is barely discernable (extreme left) where he sat apart from the rest of the group. From l. to r. are John Muir, Henry Loomis, P. B. Van Trump, Edward S. Ingraham, William Keith, and Norman Booth.
From accompanying material: One of Warner's last studies of the mountain before the final ascent.
From accompanying material: At Nisqually Glacier and Gibralter Rock. As photographer, Warner appears to have been doubly burdened and yet inadequately dressed or equipped. He was obliged to carry a fifty pound load of photographic equipment as well as his own share of the party's food and other supplies.
From accompanying material: Norman Booth, warmly dressed, resting on Little Tahoma. Warner, apparently climbing in ordinary town clothing, cut off his trouser legs at the knees so he could "get on better". On the summit he nearly froze his unprotected arms, according to Haines, because he had removed his coat to use it as a focusing cloth.
From accompanying material: The final barrier to the summit as photographed by Warner from Camp Muir, looking across the ice toward Columbia Crest and Little Tahoma.
Printed backwards.
From accompanying material: Two members of the party across the small crater near the summit of Mount Rainier. Aubrey Haines states that Warner made six views on or near the summit of the mountain but only three are known today.
Written on verso: The summit of Mt. Rainier, 1888. Left to right: D. W. Bass, P. B. Van Trump, John Muir, N. O. [Norman] Booth, E. S. Ingraham.
Item 507b is a modern print.
Probably one of the photographs taken during the 1888 Mt. Rainier climbing expedition.
Probably one of the photographs taken during the 1888 Mt. Rainier climbing expedition.
Probably one of the photographs taken during the 1888 Mt. Rainier climbing expedition.
Probably one of the photographs taken during the 1888 Mt. Rainier climbing expedition.
Elcane Longmire was the oldest son of James Longmire. Elcane was born in Indiana ca. 1843, and he died in 1915 in Washington.
Written on postcard: P.B. Van Trump, who made the first assent of Mt. Rainier, returning to his old camping grounds
Philemon B. Van Trump was born ca. 1839 in Ohio. On August 17, 1870, Hazard Stevens and P. B. Van Trump made the first successful ascent of Mount Rainier via the Gibraltar route. Van Trump died in 1916.
Item 530b is an enlarged version of 530a.
Item 534b is an enlarged version of 534a.
Item 535b is an enlarged version of 535a.
Over 100,000 "stampeders" set out for the gold fields of the Yukon River and its tributaries in Canada and Alaska between 1897 and 1898, seeing them as a promising opportunity in what had been a bleak decade (Panic of 1893). The most popular routes to the Klondike gold fields were through Dyea, Alaska and over the Chilkoot Pass or through Skagway and over the White Pass. Both trails were arduous and sometimes impassable, fraught with extremely difficult conditions. In September 1898, the "Three Lucky Swedes" discovered gold on Anvil Creek and founded the Nome mining district. By the winter of 1899, gold was found in the beach sands for dozens of miles along the coast at Nome. By 1900 thousands of prospectors had poured into Nome, many of whom had arrived from the Klondike gold rush area. Beginning probably in 1897, A. C. Warner periodically went to Alaska as a prospector, a packer and a photographer. His father-in-law, Captain Simon Peter Randolph, may have furnished the necessary capital for an adventure in Gold Rush photography in Alaska. A.C. Warner himself mined on the Seward Peninsula, in and around Nome, and specifically northeast of Nome in the vicinity of Sparkle Gulch near the Nome River.
Stone House was named for a large rock with an overhang that could provide temporary shelter.
The Pack Train Saloon was located at the corner Broadway and Trail.
In the Fall of 1897, a post office, the first church, and a newspaper, the Skaguay News, were established in Skagway.
Small sign in front reads:
Jake Rice, proprietor, opened Rice's Place in Skagway in 1897. It was located on the corner of White Pass Trail and Holly St.
In May 1900 the Cape Nome Transportation, Bridge, and Development Company was authorized by Congress to construct a general traffic bridge over the Snake River.
Warner prospected in Nome with his partner George A. Virtue and also on the Seward Peninsula, northeast of Nome in the vicinity of Sparkle Gulch near the Nome River.
Even though many of these photographs are probably taken by A.C. Warner, the correct photographic attribution can not be verified.
Nowadluk Nora Ootenna (1883/85-1918) [Norwadluk; Nowadlook; Nawadlook; Nawadluk; Noadkuk; Noadoadlok; Newarluk] was born in Kingegan about 1883-1885 to Eungnuk (1841-1918) (Eungknook, Enuquenuh) and Weakaseuk (1834-1918) (Weokrseok). Her known siblings were Ongualuk (Stella Adlooat Kaingnizinia) (1888-1941) and James Keok (1879/1880-1918). Nowadluk “Nora” and her cousin Nowadluk “Alice” attended school and worked for the educators Ellen and W. T. Lopp. Ellen Lopp gave the cousins the names Nora and Alice, because they shared the same Inupiaq name. In August 1900, in a double wedding with her cousin, Nowadluk married George Ootenna (1878-1971) a successful reindeer herder. They did not have children, however, sometime after 1910 they adopted a daughter Isabel. Nowadluk was an active member of the church, taught Sunday school, and was the subject of several Christian missionary articles about her exemplary home. Nowadluk was also a popular subject of the Nome commercial photographers, marketing her as an “Eskimo Belle” wearing her atigi (fancy fur parka). Nowadluk died in the 1918 pandemic in Kingegan, along with her parents, her brother James Keok, four of his children, her brother-in-law Adlooat and his baby. References: Smith, Kathleen Lopp and Smith, Verbeck, Ice Window, Letters from a Bering Strait Village: 1892-1902, Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2001.; The American Missionary, vol. 68, 1914, An Arctic Journey to Dedicate Thornton Memorial Church, by Rev. Philip E. Bauer, of Nome, Alaska, p. 477.; Nagozruk's Report of Deaths and Living, U.S. Public School, Wales, Alaska, November 1918, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1908-1934, Record Group 75, M2150, pages 1220-1229, National Archives, Identifier number 231817243. Submitted by Deborah Tear Haynes, 3/2022.
Item 645b is a cropped version of item 645a.
Craigdarroch Castle, a historic Victorian-era mansion, was built in the 1890s by coal baron Robert Dunsmuir, the richest man in nineteenth century British Columbia. Rising 87 stairs up through the 4 -1/2 stories, the Castle was designed by Portland architect Warren H. Williams, who died only four months after construction began on the Castle. Built in the Romanesque/Chateauesque style popular among the very rich as an architectural style suitable to one's fortune, it was successfully completed by his associate, Arthur L. Smith in 1890.
The Châteauesque-styled hotel was built by Francis Mawson Rattenbury for the Canadian Pacific Railway company and opened on January 20, 1908.
Published by Catterlin & Lussier.
Possibly made by A.C. Warner. Published by Catterlin & Lussier.
The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World in 1492. It was located on 686 acres along the city’s south lakefront area. Part of this location is now Jackson Park in Chicago. The chief planner was the Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham with Charles B. Atwood as designer in chief and Frederick Law Olmsted entrusted with landscaping. Opening on May 1, 1893, more than 150,000 people passed through the grounds each day during its six-month run, making it larger than all of the U.S. world’s fairs that preceded it.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was held from April 30 to December 1, 1904 to celebrate the centennial of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. It was the last great international exposition before World War I and unveiled displays of every important technological advance. The site was designed by city planner and landscape architect George Kessler and was located at the present-day grounds of Forest Park and on the campus of Washington University. More than 60 countries and 43 of the then-45 American states maintained exhibition spaces at the fair.
Built by Capt. Anderson in Philadelphia, the
The steamer
Owned by Capt. Simon P. Randolph.
Wooden-hulled steamship that operated on Puget Sound from 1909 to 1941.
Built for the Great Northern Railway Company, the
Launched 1912, she was decommissioned 1946.
Steamship
Written on photo: LH251
A. C. Warner worked for the Lowman and Hanford Stationery and Printing Company from about 1903 to 1910.
The
Side-wheel steamer
Built 1907 at Friday Harbor, she ran on various Puget Sound
routes including Seattle-Olympia. She was renamed the
In circa 1888 A. C. Warner formed a short-lived partnership with photographer Walter Davis working jointly to make and sell some fairly conventional views of Seattle. Davis maintained a studio in Seattle on the southeast corner of Second Ave. and Blanchard St.
The wharf shown is probably the Oregon Improvement Company's City Dock, between Washington and Main streets, which was constructed in 1881. In 1889, the City and Ocean docks were destroyed in the Great Fire.
The steamship
After Warner married Edith Randolph in 1890, the daughter of the well-to-do Captain Simon Peter Randolph, he formed a business partnership with his father-in-law. Simon Peter Randolph (1835 – 1909) arrived in Seattle in 1868 and was active in boating on the Duwamish, Skagit, Snohomish, Black Rivers and Lake Washington. He was responsible for dredging much of the lower White River and cleared the Black River between its outlet and the Duwamish River. He was also engaged in transporting coal for the Lake Washington Coal Company on barges from Lake Washington by way of Black River. He retired from active business in 1889. The partnership of Warner and Randolph published views of Seattle and also scenes from around Puget Sound. Seattle city directories show Warner and Randolph owning a photography studio at the 71 Hinckley Block between 1891 and 1892. Randolph may also have provided the capital which allowed A. C. Warner to photograph in Alaska from about 1897 to 1900.
Item 780b is a larger version of item 780a.
Photographer unknown.
Item 812b is hand tinted.
Item 835b is a tinted version of item 835a.
Item 877b is a cropped version of item 877a.
In 1910 A.C. Warner opened Warner's Confectionary on 2nd Ave. at the entrance to the Seattle Hotel. He closed it in 1915.
Simon Peter Randolph lived here until the early 1880s when he moved to 1016 Columbia St. Also shows the First Baptist Church on the right. The wooden church was built on the east side of Fourth Ave. in about 1872 and used until the late 1890s.
Simon Peter Randolph lived at 1016 Columbia St. at least from 1882 to 1908.
One of the books under the tree is titled
Item 955b is annotated with an attached paper note: The steamer "Maud" owned by Mr. P.B. Randolph. Used for dredging in 1895 by Randolph and T. Kinkaid. Originally used by father S.P.B. Randolph as a cargo boat on the Skagit River.
The following items are photographs that were collected or copied by A. C. Warner.
Nowadluk Nora Ootenna (1883/85-1918) [Norwadluk; Nowadlook; Nawadlook; Nawadluk; Noadkuk; Noadoadlok; Newarluk] was born in Kingegan about 1883-1885 to Eungnuk (1841-1918) (Eungknook, Enuquenuh) and Weakaseuk (1834-1918) (Weokrseok). Her known siblings were Ongualuk (Stella Adlooat Kaingnizinia) (1888-1941) and James Keok (1879/1880-1918). Nowadluk “Nora” and her cousin Nowadluk “Alice” attended school and worked for the educators Ellen and W. T. Lopp. Ellen Lopp gave the cousins the names Nora and Alice, because they shared the same Inupiaq name. In August 1900, in a double wedding with her cousin, Nowadluk married George Ootenna (1878-1971) a successful reindeer herder. They did not have children, however, sometime after 1910 they adopted a daughter Isabel. Nowadluk was an active member of the church, taught Sunday school, and was the subject of several Christian missionary articles about her exemplary home. Nowadluk was also a popular subject of the Nome commercial photographers, marketing her as an “Eskimo Belle” wearing her atigi (fancy fur parka). Nowadluk died in the 1918 pandemic in Kingegan, along with her parents, her brother James Keok, four of his children, her brother-in-law Adlooat and his baby. References: Smith, Kathleen Lopp and Smith, Verbeck, Ice Window, Letters from a Bering Strait Village: 1892-1902, Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2001.; The American Missionary, vol. 68, 1914, An Arctic Journey to Dedicate Thornton Memorial Church, by Rev. Philip E. Bauer, of Nome, Alaska, p. 477.; Nagozruk's Report of Deaths and Living, U.S. Public School, Wales, Alaska, November 1918, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1908-1934, Record Group 75, M2150, pages 1220-1229, National Archives, Identifier number 231817243. Submitted by Deborah Tear Haynes, 3/2022.
Benjamin Alfred Haldane was born on June 15, 1874 in the village of Metlakatla, British Columbia. He was a Tsimshian professional photographer who set up a portrait studio in 1899. He actively documented the people of his community from the 1890s to approximately 1910.
Benjamin Alfred Haldane was born on June 15, 1874 in the village of Metlakatla, British Columbia. He was a Tsimshian professional photographer who set up a portrait studio in 1899. He actively documented the people of his community from the 1890s to approximately 1910.
In 1897 Benjamin S. Downing had contracted with the U.S. government to deliver mail in the winter from Dawson 600 miles down the frozen Yukon to the mouth of the Tanana River. He also operated the B.S. Downing Eagle & Dawson Stage Line. He died in 1906.
Photograph of a drawing.
Photograph of a drawing of land claims superimposed on a map of Seattle.
Photograph of a drawing.
Photograph of illustration from Harper's Weekly, January 6, 1866, pp. 8-9.
In 1864 and again in 1866, Asa Mercer, Seattle pioneer and first president of the University of Washington, led groups of young women known as the Mercer Girls on journeys from the East Coast to Seattle. In 1864, Mercer recruited and brought 11 women to Seattle and in 1866 he recruited 34 more women for a second trip. These women were asked to come to Seattle to increase the numbers of marriageable women in the young city. They were also needed to fill jobs, mostly as teachers. Most, but not all, of the Mercer Girls did end up marrying and settling in the Puget Sound area.
Photograph of illustration from Harper's Weekly, January 6, 1866, pp. 8-9.
In 1864 and again in 1866, Asa Mercer, Seattle pioneer and first president of the University of Washington, led groups of young women known as the Mercer Girls on journeys from the East Coast to Seattle. In 1864, Mercer recruited and brought 11 women to Seattle and in 1866 he recruited 34 more women for a second trip. These women were asked to come to Seattle to increase the numbers of marriageable women in the young city. They were also needed to fill jobs, mostly as teachers. Most, but not all, of the Mercer Girls did end up marrying and settling in the Puget Sound area.
Photograph of illustration from Harper's Weekly, January 6, 1866, pp. 8-9.
In 1864 and again in 1866, Asa Mercer, Seattle pioneer and first president of the University of Washington, led groups of young women known as the Mercer Girls on journeys from the East Coast to Seattle. In 1864, Mercer recruited and brought 11 women to Seattle and in 1866 he recruited 34 more women for a second trip. These women were asked to come to Seattle to increase the numbers of marriageable women in the young city. They were also needed to fill jobs, mostly as teachers. Most, but not all, of the Mercer Girls did end up marrying and settling in the Puget Sound area.
Photograph of architectural rendering.
Photograph of architectural rendering by architect Charles Ronald Aldrich.
Built in 1908 as the Fine Arts Building for the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, the building was used as a chemistry building after the fair and renamed Bagley Hall. It was remodeled in 1937 and was renamed the Physiology Hall. Around 1950 the name was changed again to the Architecture Hall.
The exposition was held on the University of Washington campus.
On May 1, 1914, Auditorium Hall originally built for the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition was officially renamed at a ceremony held to mark Edmond Meany and his wife's 25th wedding anniversary.
Shows the Ferry
L to R: Martin W. Gorman, Daniel Waldo Bass, Bertram C. Towne, Louis Knighton Louie, William Gladston Steel, Lincoln, Thomas A. Marquam, Dewart.
2-part panorama.
In 1890 the Women’s Home Missionary Society furnished money to build and operate a children’s home in Unalaska, named for Jesse Lee, one of the early itinerant Methodist preachers on the New England and east coast. This Methodist mission was established in Unalaska in 1890 and provided a home to hundreds of children.
The North American Commercial Co. was first incorporated in 1889. The company had a coaling station at Dutch Harbor.
In 1900, Benjamin S. Downing was living on the Yukon River north of Eagle and was working as a U.S. mail contractor. He also operated the B.S. Downing Eagle & Dawson Stage Line.
In 1903 Alaska's Governor, John Green Brady collected some 20 poles from Prince of Wales Island, acquiring specimens from the Tlingit villages of Tuxekan and Klawock, and the Haida villages of Howkan, Klinkwan, Sukkwan, Old Kasaan, and Koinglas. Some recarving, patching, and repainting was done under Brady's direction, after which the poles were sent to St. Louis for the 1904 Lousiana Purchase Exposition. After the exposition some of the totems were in such poor condition that they were sold; the remaining poles were sent to the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland. They were later shipped to Sitka, repaired and repainted, and mounted in the park around 1906.
Designs on these house posts are said to be from a legend in which Raven obtains the sun, moon and stars for the people of the earth. The totem pole has several figures such as the traditional Village Watchman, a bear, and Raven.
In 1897 Benjamin S. Downing had contracted with the U.S. government to deliver mail in the winter from Dawson 600 miles down the frozen Yukon to the mouth of the Tanana River. He also operated the B.S. Downing Eagle & Dawson Stage Line. He died in 1906.
Possibly one of Benjamin S. Downing's dogsled teams.
In 1906 the U. S. Revenue Cutter Commodore Perry visited the Bogoslof Island group on one of its routine missions in the Bering Sea. Bogoslof Island is the summit of a submarine stratovolcano at the south edge of the Bering Sea, 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Unalaska Island of the Aleutian Island chain. Sighting smoke emerging from the island group, crew members were sent to explore and photograph the islands including the newly formed Perry Island (earlier named Metcalf Dome).
On April 6th, 1906, the statue of Sacajawea was relocated to its current location in Washington Park.
Built in 1855 as the
Wrecked on August 28, 1889.
Built 1918 and scuttled in 1922.
Built in Everett in 1900, she operated between Seattle and Everett. Renamed the Liberty during World War I.
Built in 1892, she was purchased by the Alaska Steamship Company in 1900 and operated it until 1917.
Built in 1907, she was refitted as a freighter in 1947.
Owned by the Pacific Whaling Company (1900) for service to Alaska, she ws stranded on rocks during a freight run in 1913 in Southeast Alaska.
Built 1898, she was originally owned by Alaska Commercial Co., then transferred to Northern Navigation Co. in 1901. Last used in 1920 after being acquired by WP&YR in 1914. She was abandoned at St. Michael, Alaska in 1943.
Built at Everett by E. Heath for the Thompson Steamboat Co.
in 1901, and renamed the
Launched in 1871 and sunk in 1903.
Entered service in 1885. In 1890, the ship was sold and sailed around Cape Horn with the seemingly legitimate intent to service Alaska canneries. However, the steamer proved too large for those duties and laid dormant for almost two years, then began hauling freight and passengers along the West Coast, including regular stops at San Francisco, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, and Vancouver.. The SS Portland was wrecked at Katalla, in Alaska, on November 12, 1910
Launched 1924, she ran aground and sank at Lena Point in Lynn Canal, Alaska on September 7, 1952.
The Queen of the Pacific (1882-1935), a 336-foot, iron-hulled, commercial passenger cargo steamer/brig was built in Philadelphia for the Pacific Coast Steamship Company. Her name was shortened to Queen in 1890. She was in service from 1882 until 1935 when she was scrapped in Japan.
Built 1889, State of Washington was a sternwheel steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito fleet, later transferred to service on the Columbia River. In 1921, the vessel was destroyed by a boiler explosion.
Sold in 1892 to the Northern Pacific Steamship Company and renamed Victoria (from original name Parthia). In 1900, Victoria sailed from the Puget Sound to Nome carrying hundreds of prospectors as part of the Klondike Gold Rush. In 1901, she was re-sold to the Northern Pacific Steamship Company, only to be resold three years later to the Northwestern Steamship Company. Under this new ownership, she permanently entered Alaskan service. Remained a coastal passenger liner until 1940.
In 1864, Asa Mercer recruited and brought 11 women to Seattle from the East Coast, to balance the male/female population, serve as teachers, etc. In 1866 he recruited 34 more women for a second trip. Sarah Gallagher was one of the first 11 women.