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| Title | Painting of Annie Moran |
| Photographer | Richard Nicol |
| Notes | Robert Moran and his wife Annie lived in Seattle where he worked initailly as a steamboat engineer. Moran and his brothers soon opened a shipyard on Seattle's waterfront. Robert Moran was elected mayor of Seattle in 1888, and governed the city during the Seattle Fire of 1889. He and his brothers lost their business in the fire, rebuilt the shipyard and successfully launched the Battleship Nebraska in 1907. When Robert Moran's health failed, he and his wife built a beautiful mansion at Rosario on Orcas Island which is now a hotel. |
| Personal Names | Moran, Robert; Moran, Annie |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--King County--Seattle; |
| 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 The Pioneer Association of the State of Washington, 1642 43rd Ave East, Seattle, 98112, 206-328-2716 |
| Credit Line | Pioneer Association of the State of Washington; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Pioneer Association of the State of Washington |
| 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. |
