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Photographs of Seaholme, Washington, 1908-1912
Overview of the Collection
- Title
- Photographs of Seaholme, Washington
- Dates
- 1908-1912 (inclusive)19081912
- Quantity
- 1 folder containing 9 photographs
- Collection Number
- PH1625
- Summary
- Photographs of a small Washington town
- 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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Selected images can be viewed on the Libraries' Digital collections website. Permission of Visual Materials curator required to view originals. Contact Special Collections for more information.
- Languages
- English
Historical BackgroundReturn to Top
A little known event in La Push history was the lost half township of Seaholme. In 1907, Walter Newbert and two other men surveying for the Union Pacific railroad above Third Beach discovered a half township that was unrecorded on state maps. Vinton E. Newbert and his survey crew discovered 600 acres that had never been recorded as land. Apparently, this fractional township has been recorded as water. Newbert, his mother and two members of the survey crew, Theodore Rixon and James Dodwell, filed 160-acre homestead claims although they had difficulty proving the land actually existed. The combined homesteads were called "Seaholme." The Newbert boys used about 25, -30,000 feet of lumber from buildings at an abandoned oil well, from an abortive oil exploration in 1902, to build houses. Machinery from the well which was dry is still found along the trail to Third Beach. There were no access roads to the property so supplies, and amenities like a piano, were transported by canoe and hoisted up a 200-foot cliff. Three families lived there for a few years, but after they proved up, they left discouraged by the isolation and the failure of the railroad to be built.
Source: Mark Whiting Pullen Genealogy Home Page: Information about Daniel Webster Pullen on Genealogy.com
Other Descriptive InformationReturn to Top
Family Tree: Grandmother’s name was Martha L. F. Ellen Ella Adams, born in 1840 and died in 1921. Her son was Walter E. Newbert, born in 1865 in Massachusetts and died in 1940. His wife, Gertrude W. Wiggin/Newbert was born in 1865 in New Hampshire and died in 1912, buried on the Seaholme plot. Together they had 8 children. The first, Walter J. Newbert, was born and died in 1891. Their second son, Vinton E. Newbert, was born in 1892 and died in 1997. Paul R. Newbert, their third son, was born in 1895 and died in 1984. The fourth son, Julian W. Newbert, was born in 1897 and died in 1970. Their fifth son, Carl M. Newbert was born in 1899 and died in 1965. Ira H. Newbert, the sixth son, was born in 1901 and died in 1956. Their seventh child and only daughter, Rose M. Newbert, was born in 1904 and died in 1981. Hiram W. Newbert was their last son, born in 1906. He died in 1909 and was buried near his mother on the Seaholme plot.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Photographs of Seaholme, Washington with accompanying text.
Other Descriptive InformationReturn to Top
The photographs are copies with text inserted in the images. "Weitzman's Photo Shop" is stamped on the back of the photographs. However, it is clear that Weitzman is not the photographer but is the photo shop which made the copies with the added text.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
Status of creator's copyrights is unknown; restrictions may exist on copying, quotation, or publication. Users are responsible for researching copyright status before use.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
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| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Folder | item | ||
| 1 | 1 | Pacific Ocean beach and cliffs with small waterfall at
Seaholme Written on photo: Seaholme - Pacific Ocean frontage, Broad sandy
beaches cut off by precipitous rock points 200' to 300' high. Falls Brook, a
small cataract dropping over 100' into the Ocean. Up this 250' cliff the boys
carried all sawed lumber for school house and 10 room house and supplies and
furniture. Drawn up by wire cable on a 420' span aerial tramway built of odds
and end from old abandoned and scrapped oil well.
|
between 1900 and 1912 |
| 1 | 2 | Small house built of wood shakes Written on photo: The first crude house from the materials
gathered off the Ocean beach. Fitting counterpart of the rude dwellings our
ancestors built when they left the portable tents of skins and cloth and
settled down in more fixed abodes. Indicating fairly well the average capacity
and initiative of boys 10 to 16 years, beginning to handle tools.
|
between 1900 and 1912 |
| 1 | 3 |
Exterior view of large house with family
outside Written on photo: The house the boys built on their grandmother's
homestead. 10 rooms when completed. Downstairs partitioned, upstairs half
partitioned. In this the oldest boys having earned and obtained carpenters
tools of their own begin to develop the desire for good workmanship. So the
house and outbuildings well illustrate the evolution of the woodworker from the
first hewed timbers and split shingle construction to the finer work of
journeyman carpenters and cabinet makers, Making doors and windows and
beginning higher artistic work in their treatment of broken windows partly
shown elsewhere.
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between 1900 and 1912 |
| 1 | 4 | Newbert family seated with dog in front of
house Written on photo: Enjoying what their own hands have wrought. The
front door, made from barn sash and scrap beach lumber, is their special pride.
Even as it is written,- they look upon the fruits of their labor and see that
it is good. Written on Verso: Pictures from Vinton E. Newbert - These are
pictures of his family in the first part of the century - his brothers &
sister and grandmother. He is the smaller one of the boys. His mother and a
younger brother's grave is shown on another picture.
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between 1900 and 1912 |
| 1 | 5 | Decorative motto "Study Nature and Nature's God" in
window viewed from guest room interior Written on photo: Broken window for Guest chamber. First inscribed
in autograph album of her whose life was one of unswerving devotion to her
children. She lived in them and for them. And now in the retrospect, her
earthly task finished and theirs but just begun, after twenty eight years of
study in Nature's Workshop, the author feels greater certainty in the truth
then expressed. No better motto may be inscribed over the portals of
Education's future temple.
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between 1900 and 1912 |
| 1 | 6 | Bible verse pasted on window viewed from bedroom
interior Written on photo: Broken window in Rose's and her grandmother's
bedroom. Thus from our accidents and mistakes we may learn the best and
greatest lessons life has to teach. On other broken windows the children have
made more mottoes to lead to higher thinking. Thus the wonderful cathedral
windows of Europe show our forbears passing through a growth of centuries,
creating the works of art we today so well appreciate.
|
between 1900 and 1912 |
| 1 | 7 | Boy playing with boats on pond near small storage
building Written on photo: Small warehouse of beach lumber and split
shingles, on site of first school tent. A rough weir dam for stream gaging made
a small pond at mouth of creek. This furnished water for wash days, also play
pond to try out the toy fleets of small boys.
|
between 1900 and 1912 |
| 1 | 8 | School house in
clearing Written on photo: School House in the wilderness. Under a foreman
boys slashed 2 acres for school grounds, cutting down over 400 trees 3" to 6'
in diam. They transported lumber, sand, - cement, dynamite and supplies a mile
from Ocean beach to school site, handling it over 8 times. They hewed and laid
foundation timbers for school house. Creating better educational facilities for
themselves, the children finally abandoned this for their own. "left the last
years dwelling for the new---built up its idle door,---and knew the old no
more."
|
1909? |
| 1 | 9 | Two graves at the edge of the forest Written on photo: Among the ferns and mosses, in the edge of the
forest, overlooking the Ocean. Two mounds of earth mark the spot where mortal
clay returns to dust whence it came. A devoted mother and fond wife with
"little brother" have joined that innumerable caravan which binds us with
strongest ties to the invisible Realm above.
|
1912? |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
