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Patrick Downey family, Bellevue, 1921
Patrick Downey family, Bellevue, 1921
TitlePatrick Downey family, Bellevue, 1921
PhotographerUnknown
Date1921
NotesHandwritten on note attached to verso: The Patrick Downey family. Picture Taken in 1921.
People identified - Back row: Alice Downey Carlson, Peter, Frank, Michael. Middle row: Catherine, Ann, Bridget Downey Loftus, Agnes, Elizabeth, Rose. Front row: Margaret, Victoria, Patrick, Josephine, Martha.

Handwritten on sleeve: Patrick Downey Family - 1921. Patrick Downey built a log cabin in 1882 in what is now Vuecrest. He later built a larger home which is still standing. Sacred Heart Catholic Church's first mass in Bellevue was held in the Downey Parlor.

Note from EHC records: Downey raised strawberries and kept a dairy farm. He later leased property to Japanese farmers prior to their internment in the 1940s. The family sold their 160 acres after World War II, and it became the neighborhood of Vuecrest in Bellevue.
SubjectsFamilies--Washington (State)--Bellevue
PlacesUnited States--Washington (State)--Bellevue
Digital CollectionEastside Heritage Center Photograph Collection
Image Number2000.38.01
Ordering InformationTo order a copy of this image or inquire about permissions, contact the Curator of Collections at (425) 450-1049 or P.O. Box 40535, Bellevue, WA 98015.
RepositoryEastside Heritage Center
Repository CollectionBellevue Collection
Physical Description1 photographic print: b&w
TypeImage
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3.
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