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| Title | Asa Mercer |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1862 |
| Notes | Handwritten on verso of image: 1st President, U. of W., Asa Shinn Mercer, 1861-1863
Filed in Portraits--Mercer, Asa |
| Contextual Notes | Asa Shinn Mercer (1839-1918) was hired as the first instructor and was therefore the first president of the University of Washington in Seattle in 1864. He was responsible for a plan to bring the Mercer Girls to Washington Territory in 1864 from Lowell, Massachusetts. The young women were to work as teachers and served to increase the number of marriageable women in a Territory populated chiefly by young bachelors. Asa Mercer married one of the "Mercer Girls" Annie E. Stephens, on July 15, 1866.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Pioneers--Washington (State)--Seattle
College presidents--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Mercer, A. S. (Asa Shinn), 1839-1917
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Digital Collection | Portraits Collection
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| Order Number | POR0106
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Please cite the Order Number when ordering. |
| Negative Number | UW2209, UW3392 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Portraits Collection |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 6 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2003 |
