WAURootVirginiaTaylorPHColl087.xmlGuide to the Virginia Taylor Root Photograph Collection between 1880 and 1937? Root (Virginia Taylor) Photograph CollectionSpecial Collections, University of Washington Libraries©2008 (Last modified: 11/10/2022)
Seattle, WA 98195
Finding aid written in English.Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard).University of Washington Libraries, Special CollectionsPH0087Root, Virginia TaylorVirginia Taylor Root photograph collectionbetween 1880 and 1937? 2 folders containing:13 photographic prints1 handmade book1 advertising card with silhouette portraitCollection materials are in English.Family photographs and ephemera including a handmade book of quotations, from the late 19th-early 20th century

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.

Arranged in 2 series.

Jonathan C. Taylor familyLiddle family

Family photographs of the Jonathan C. Taylor and Mary Liddle families in Kirkland, Snoqualmie, North Bend, and Seattle, Washington.

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Donor: Virginia Taylor Root, September 1978.

Processed by Gay A. Howard, March 2019.

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Jonathan C. Taylor family11 Jonathan C. Taylor between 1880 and 1895

Copy print

12Jonathan C. Taylor and Mary Liddle Taylor standing outdoorsbetween 1902 and 1907? 13Conductor standing inside Bever Park trolley, with uniformed John G. Taylor, and a young boy standing nearby. Cedar Rapids, Iowabetween 1904 and 1910

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

14Five young children standing outside, two holding dollsbetween 1905 and 1910?

Pictured are Taylor sisters Hazel, Virginia, Lavonia and Norma, and an unidentified youngest child, possibly Winchell

15View of building with Mary Liddle Taylor, Hazel Taylor and three others in yard, Kirkland1906Carl Knauf16Studio photograph of Jonathan C. Taylor family with motorcar prop, Seattle1908

Left to right: Norma, Virginia, Hazel, Jonathan, Winchell (on lap), Mary, Lavonia (on lap)

Written on verso: Jonathan Taylor family taken at Madison Park

17John B. Allen school group in front of Phinney Ave. Grocery, Seattle1912

Written on verso: John B. Allen School (67th & Phinney) school children (1912) Picture taken at grocery store across street from school.

18Souvenir portrait silhouette of Mary Liddle Taylor from The Bon Marche department store, Seattle July 28, 1914

Written on front: This was taken July 28, 1914. Mamma.

Advertising text for The Bon Marche Children's Store printed on verso

19Jonathan C. Taylor family and others seated outdoorsbetween 1910 and 1916?

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.

110Handmade book of quotations by Virginia Taylor Root1916Bertha Orth

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.

111not usedLiddle family212Carte de visite of Mary Liddle and Emma Fisk1890?W. F Boyd, 711 Front Street, Seattle213Group of children and adults in front of a school in North Bend, Washington between 1889 and 1890

Written on verso: Mary Liddle (x) North Bend, Wash. 12 years, about 1889 or 1890. First school house in North Bend

214James Liddle family group in front of hotel, North Bend, Washington1897?

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]

215 View of Snoqualmie, Washington with mountains in backgroundbetween 1910 and 1918?

Printed on front: Snoqualmie Wash 889.