Princess Angeline photograph and postcard collection, approximately 1870-1958

Printed on the copy negative for this photo: Bailey, Third and Seneca Streets, Seattle; however, the above text has been cropped away in the print.

Handwritten story on verso.

Same item is in PHColl277 Boyd and Braas Photograph Collection.

This is an enlargement of the original image by Edward S. Curtis in The North American Indian, portfolio 9, plate no. 314. It is unclear whether Curtis made this enlargement.

Prosch also used a portion of this image in his Indian Albums, vol. 2, page 4, PH Coll. 18.

See two postcards based on this portrait, items 18 and 19.

On verso there is a narrative which attributes to Angeline the warning which saved the Seattle pioneers from a massacre, and there is a note advertising that this photograph card is available for sale at Balke, Cole, and Co.'s Art Rooms.

Black and white print from colored half-tone.

Same image as in Lowman and Handford postcards, items 21 and 22.

Seattle sculptor James Wehn trained in the Pacific Northwest and in Chicago. His most noted sculpture in Seattle is probably the bronze statue of Chief Seattle, completed in 1912, that stands in Tilikum Place Park near the monorail. Wehn was the first head of the University of Washington's sculpture department from 1919-1924.

Postcard message written in Spanish and dated February 27, 1902, relates to Princess Angeline.

Postcard is addressed to Miss Myra H. Ober, Beverly, MA. and contains UW Professor Caroline Ober's description of Princess Angeline, including the story that shop owners in Seattle allowed Angeline to take whatever she needed from their stores without payment. Ober adds: "Her desires were very modest, however." Postcard dated Jan. 1, 1901.

Based on photograph taken by A.C. Warner and used by O.T. Frasch; see item 23.

Text printed on verso of card is titled: History of Princess Angeline Seattle (Related by Chief Seattle's grandson "Moses.") It tells the story of how Angeline warned the white settlers during the Treaty War of 1856 that "bad Indians" were coming to kill the whites. The story mentions the U.S. gunboat Decaturwhich played a decisive role in the so-called "Battle of Seattle" during the Treaty War. It also notes that Angeline was 85 years old when she died in 1896. The text ends with "compliments of J.E. Standley, Prop. Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Colman Dock, Seattle."

Based on Edward S. Curtis portrait; see item 6.

Young man partially cut off by frame at right may be Angeline's grandson Joe Foster.

Warner's photograph cropped and copied for postcard by O.T. Frasch. See A.C. Warner Collection, PHColl 273, for original photo.

Caption printed on photograph: Princess Angeline daughter of Chief Seattle at her cottage foot of Pike St.

Items 24a-d are all copies of a photograph; the original version of the image is not in the collection. 24a is a later print than items b-d, but includes more of the original image.

Cropped version of the image in 24a.

Cropped version of the image in 24a.

Cropped version of the image in 24a.

Painting is by C.C. Maring.

Grave marker placed by the Seattle Historical Society in 1958.