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| Title | Joseph Foster, Seattle, ca. 1885 |
| Photographer | Boyd, William F. |
| Date | ca. 1885 |
| Caption | Joseph Foster came from Wisconsin in 1852 at the age of 24 and homesteaded on the Duwamish River, a few miles west of what would become Renton, Washington. Foster served in the Territorial Legislature for 22 years. The town of Foster, near the original homestead, was named in his honor. He died at his home in Foster in January 1911.
Sometime in the 1880s, Joseph Foster sat for this photographic portrait in the Seattle studio of William F. Boyd. |
| Notes | Caption on mount: Boyd - Successor to J.H. Peters - Seattle and 914 Market St., San Francisco.
Handwritten on verso: Joseph Foster.
Caption by MOHAI staff. |
| Subjects | Pioneers--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Personal Names | Foster, Joseph |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | SHS7692 |
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| Credit Line | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Historical Society Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard: gelatin, b&w; 5 1/2 x 4 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original print as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |