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| Title | Estelle Slater Jackson's harp, Seattle, n.d. |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | n.d. |
| Caption | Estelle Slater Jackson was a soprano who was one of the most popular singers on the west coast. After attending the Boston Conservatory of Music, she made several concert tours of the country and did chorus work for several films in Hollywood. In Seattle, she directed the choir at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. She was killed in an automobile accident in 1934 at the age of 39 along with her husband William. They had been on the Seattle-Tacoma Highway on their way to California. Their passenger, 16-year-old Dorothy Alexander, was thrown from the rumble seat, escaping serious injury. |
| Notes | Handwritten on scrapbook page: Harp was owned by Estelle Slater Jackson. |
| Subjects | Fireplaces--Washington (State)--Seattle
Harps--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Black Heritage Society Collection |
| Image Number | 2001.14.2.40A |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or inquire about permissions, contact: TheBoard@blackheritagewa.org. Please cite the Image Number. |
| Repository | The Black Heritage Society of Washington State, Inc. |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print pasted in scrapbook: b&w; 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned 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. |
