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Mathilde Pauline Meyfarth Rothweiler McKay, probably in Alaska, 1902
Mathilde Pauline Meyfarth Rothweiler McKay, probably in Alaska, 1902
TitleMathilde Pauline Meyfarth Rothweiler McKay, probably in Alaska, 1902
PhotographerUnknown
Date1902
CaptionMathilde Pauline Meyfarth was born in Toronto in 1856 and grew up in New York City. She married Charles Rothweiler in New York in 1874 and had three children, two of whom survived. In 1893 she and her sons left her husband and came west to Seattle where her father had bought property near Oak Lake. In 1897 she went north to Alaska for the gold rush, working in the mining and hotel business in Fairbanks and Dawson. She married David McKay in Vancouver in 1901. She returned to Seattle in 1907 and lived on the Oak Lake Farm property until her death in 1941.
SubjectsWomen--Alaska
Personal NamesMcKay, Mathilde Pauline Meyfarth Rothweiler
PlacesUnited States--Alaska
Digital CollectionMuseum of History & Industry Photograph Collection
Image Number2003.12.4
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Credit LineMuseum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved
RepositoryMuseum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI)
Repository CollectionMuseum of History & Industry Collection
TypeImage
Physical Description1 photographic print: b&w; 4 x 3 in.
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from copy negative as a 300 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, levels balanced, resized to 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3.
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