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| Title | Mercer girls chest, Seattle, 1866 |
| Photographer | Richard Nicol |
| Date | 1866 |
| Notes | This trunk used by sisters Elisabeth (Libbie) and Anna Peebles, two of Asa Mercer's "girls" who came to Seattle from New York in May 1866 aboard the steamer CONTINENTAL. Faced with a ten-to-one disproportion between men and women in Washington Territory, Mercer developed a scheme to bring women orphaned or widowed by the Civil War to the far northwest. Mercer had the double goal of providing wives for lonely territorial bachelors and encouraging cultured, educated women to civilize central Puget Sound. |
| Personal Names | Peebles, Elisabeth Libbie; Peebles, Anna; Mercer, Asa |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--King County; |
| Digital Collection | King County Museum Collections
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| Note About Ownership | This record describes one of more than three hundred artifacts, photographs and documents, submitted by members of the Association of King County Historical Organizations. The King County Collects project took place during the county's sesquicentennial in 2001, to celebrate the shared collection of AKCHO's 205 members. The information presented here is the responsibility of the AKCHO organization which submitted the item for inclusion in the project. |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@seattlehistory.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI); All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import. |
| Accession/Acquisition Number | 1966.3915.9 |
