Virginia Taylor Root photograph collection, between 1880 and 1937?
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Collector
- Root, Virginia Taylor
- Title
- Virginia Taylor Root photograph collection
- Dates
- between 1880 and 1937? (inclusive)18501950
- Quantity
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2 folders containing:
13 photographic prints
1 handmade book
1 advertising card with silhouette portrait - Collection Number
- PH0087
- Summary
- Family photographs and ephemera including a handmade book of quotations, from the late 19th-early 20th century
- 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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No restrictions on access.
- Additional Reference Guides
- Languages
- English
Biographical Note
Virginia Taylor was born June 8, 1901 in King County, Washington to Jonathan C. Taylor and Mary Liddle. The Taylor and Liddle families were founding settlers in Snoqualmie and North Bend, Washington. The J. C. Taylor family, including Virginia's siblings Hazel, Norma, Lavonia, Winchell and Elizabeth, lived Kirkland, and Seattle, Washington. Virginia attended John B. Allen primary school, Ballard High School and later worked as a salesperson and an apartment house manager. She married Arley A. Hudson in King County, Washington in 1924, and Samuel C. Root in Detroit, Michigan in 1937. Virginia Taylor Root died August 26, 2004 in Cashmere, Chelan Co., Washington.
Content Description
Family photographs of the Jonathan C. Taylor and Mary Liddle families in Kirkland, Snoqualmie, North Bend, and Seattle, Washington.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Use
Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.
Administrative Information
Return to TopDetailed Description of the Collection
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Jonathan C. Taylor family
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Description: Jonathan C. Taylor
Copy print
Dates: between 1880 and 1895Container: Folder 1, Item 1 -
Description: Jonathan C. Taylor and Mary Liddle Taylor standing outdoorsDates: between 1902 and 1907?Container: Folder 1, Item 2
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Description: Conductor standing inside Bever Park trolley, with uniformed John G. Taylor, and a young boy standing nearby. Cedar Rapids, Iowa
John G. Taylor, older brother of Jonathan C. Taylor lived in Iowa prior to 1910, after which time he appears in the North Bend, King County, Washington state census
Dates: between 1904 and 1910Container: Folder 1, Item 3 -
Description: Five young children standing outside, two holding dolls
Pictured are Taylor sisters Hazel, Virginia, Lavonia and Norma, and an unidentified youngest child, possibly Winchell
Dates: between 1905 and 1910?Container: Folder 1, Item 4 -
Description: View of building with Mary Liddle Taylor, Hazel Taylor and three others in yard, KirklandCarl Knauf (photographer)Dates: 1906Container: Folder 1, Item 5
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Description: Studio photograph of Jonathan C. Taylor family with motorcar prop, Seattle
Left to right: Norma, Virginia, Hazel, Jonathan, Winchell (on lap), Mary, Lavonia (on lap)
Written on verso: Jonathan Taylor family taken at Madison Park
Dates: 1908Container: Folder 1, Item 6 -
Description: John B. Allen school group in front of Phinney Ave. Grocery, Seattle
Written on verso: John B. Allen School (67th & Phinney) school children (1912) Picture taken at grocery store across street from school.
Dates: 1912Container: Folder 1, Item 7 -
Description: Souvenir portrait silhouette of Mary Liddle Taylor from The Bon Marche department store, Seattle
Written on front: This was taken July 28, 1914. Mamma.
Advertising text for The Bon Marche Children's Store printed on verso
Dates: July 28, 1914Container: Folder 1, Item 8 -
Description: Jonathan C. Taylor family and others seated outdoors
Left to right: John G. Taylor, unidentified man, Jonathan C. Taylor with Winchell, Norma, Virginia, Hazel. Mary Liddle Taylor, with Lavonia, and Jonathan's parents, Mrs. and Willam H. Taylor of North Bend.
Dates: between 1910 and 1916?Container: Folder 1, Item 9 -
Description: Handmade book of quotations by Virginia Taylor RootBertha Orth (photographer)
Book is handmade, lettered, and illustrated by Virginia Taylor for John B. Allen School 8th grade class project. Contains quotes from classmates, a pressed four leaf clover and a small group photograph of the 8th grade class of 1916 in costume, taken by Bertha Orth, mother of classmate Maurice Orth. An arrow marks Virginia Taylor in photograph.
Dates: 1916Container: Folder 1, Item 10 -
Description: not usedContainer: Folder 1, Item 11
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Liddle family
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Description: Carte de visite of Mary Liddle and Emma FiskW. F Boyd, 711 Front Street, Seattle (photographer)Dates: 1890?Container: Folder 2, Item 12
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Description: Group of children and adults in front of a school in North Bend, Washington
Written on verso: Mary Liddle (x) North Bend, Wash. 12 years, about 1889 or 1890. First school house in North Bend
Dates: between 1889 and 1890Container: Folder 2, Item 13 -
Description: James Liddle family group in front of hotel, North Bend, Washington
Front row, left to right: Young man [per verso James Liddle?] young woman, Mary Liddle Taylor, and her parents Mrs. Elizabeth Liddle, Judge James Liddle, with young girl. Back row: unidentified Liddle family members
Written on verso: James Liddle family (James Liddle at bottom left) ca. 1897. In front of first hotel in North Bend built by Liddle, [illeg.] Hotel. Elizabeth Liddle cooked for all loggers in area
[ possible that person who wrote on verso "James Liddle at bottom left" reversed or young man is another James Liddle - but did not find younger JL in any census - Snoqualmie Valley Historical Museum images of Judge James Liddle and wife confirm he is man in bottom right with child and wife is seated next to him with Mary Liddle Taylor CF]
Dates: 1897?Container: Folder 2, Item 14 -
Description: View of Snoqualmie, Washington with mountains in background
Printed on front: Snoqualmie Wash 889.
Dates: between 1910 and 1918?Container: Folder 2, Item 15
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