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English: Asa Mercer and sons   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
English: Kirkland
Title
English: Asa Mercer and sons
Description
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Stamped on mount: Kirkland, Cheyenne, Wyo.

Handwritten on verso of image: At right, Asa Shinn Mercer. Mercer Family

Stamped on verso of image: Kirkland's Studio, Cheyenne, Wyo.


PH Coll 1512.5

Asa Shinn Mercer (1839-1918) was hired as the first instructor and was therefore the first president of the University of Washington in Seattle in 1864. He was responsible for a plan to bring the Mercer Girls to Washington Territory in 1864 from Lowell, Massachusetts. The young women were to work as teachers and served to increase the number of marriageable women in a Territory populated chiefly by young bachelors. Asa Mercer married one of the "Mercer Girls," Annie E. Stephens, on July 15, 1866.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Pioneers--Washington (State)--Seattle; College presidents--Washington (State)--Seattle; Families--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Subjects (LCSH): Mercer, A. S. (Asa Shinn), 1839-1917; Pioneers--Washington (State)--Seattle; College presidents--Washington (State)--Seattle; Mercer family; Fathers and sons--Washington (State); Portraits, Group--Washington (State)--Seattle; Children's clothing--Washington (State)--Seattle
Depicted place Cheyenne, Wyoming
Date between 1850 and 1900
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
123
Source
English: Portraits Collection
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Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
Order Number
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POR0104

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