File:Erasmus M Smithers, Renton pioneer, ca 1885 (MOHAI 623).jpg

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English: Erasmus M. Smithers, Renton pioneer, ca. 1885   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
English: Moore, George N.
Title
English: Erasmus M. Smithers, Renton pioneer, ca. 1885
Description
English:

Erasmus M. Smithers came to Washington Territory by wagon train as a young man. He served in the territorial militia and worked in lumber camps. In 1857, he married Diana Tobin, the widow of another early Renton settler. Smithers was a founder of the Renton Coal Company and filed the first plat for the city of Renton. He died in 1900. This photo of Erasmus Smithers was probably taken in the 1880s.

Handwritten on mount: Mr. Smithers. Caption on verso: Moore - Portrait Photographer - Sullivan's Block, Seattle, W.T. Typed on verso: Smithers, Erasmus M. Settled in the present town of Renton, Wash. in 1853. Caption by MOHAI staff.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Pioneers--Washington (State)--Renton
  • People: Smithers, Erasmus
Depicted place
English: United States--Washington (State)--Renton
Date circa 1885
date QS:P571,+1885-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard: gelatin, b&w
Dimensions height: 4.2 in (10.7 cm); width: 6.2 in (15.8 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,4.25U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,6.25U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
623
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
Permission
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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.
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Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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