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| Title | Sisters of Providence at King County Poor Farm, ca. 1927 |
| Photographer | Webster & Stevens |
| Date | ca. 1927 |
| Caption | In 1854, Washington's legislature made counties responsible for caring for all poor, sick and homeless people whose relatives could not support them. Counties could build workhouses or poor farms and contract out the care of sick and indigent adults. From 1877 to 1887, King County contracted with the Sisters of Charity of Providence, a Roman Catholic order, to operate a poor farm and poor house on the Duwamish River, south of downtown Seattle.
This photo, taken sometime around 1927, shows two Sisters of Providence in the garden of a building at the King County Poor Farm. It is possible that the sisters visited the poor farm as part of the 50th anniversary of the founding of Providence Hospital in 1887. |
| Subjects | Farms; King County Poor Farm (Seattle, Wash.); Nuns; Sisters of Charity of Providence; Welfare facilities |
| Places | Seattle (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.765 |
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| Credit Line | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 nitrate negative: b&w; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 4. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | W&S 122, 275 |
