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| Title | Samuel Gay Morse and unidentified girl. |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | Unknown |
| Notes | Identification and the following information provided by Samuel Gay Morse's great-grandaughter. Samuel Gay Morse was a merchant, an Indian Agent of the Neah Bay Agency ( 1896), photographer, Superintendent of the Indian Training School (1902), and police captain in Aberdeen. He started a cannery in Mora, just outside the boundaries of the Quileute Reservation. Later, he established a cannery at the mouth of the Hoh River. In 1919, he went back to Taholah as a post trader. (This information comes from the book "Portrait in Time: Photographs of the Makah by Samuel G. Morse, 1896-1903" published by the Makah Cultural and Research Center in 1987.) |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Men--Washington (State)--Olympic Peninsula
Girls--Washington (State)--Olympic Peninsula
Pioneers--Washington (State)--Olympic Peninsula
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Olympic Peninsula |
| Digital Collection | Forks Timber Museum Digital Collection |
| Ordering Information | Copy requests should be made in writing to ""Forks Timber Museum, PO Box 873, Forks, WA 98331. |
| Repository | Forks Timber Museum |
| Object Type | Photographic print |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print : b&w |
| Digital Image Information | Original print scanned as a TIFF (with scanner set between 300-600 ppi using 8-bit grayscale), from which JPEG here was derived, as follows: TIFF was cropped, re-sized, levels adjusted, sharpened and saved as a JPEG using Adobe Photoshop. |
| Image File Name | ftm1091 |
| Changes to data? | To submit changes to the data for this item, click here: http://content.lib.washington.edu/cmpweb/suggestions.html |
