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| Title | Mercer Girls illustration in 1866 Harper's Weekly |
| Photographer | Warner, Arthur Churchill, 1864-1943 |
| Date | n.d. |
| Notes | Caption on image: On Deck.
Photograph of an illustration from Harper's Weekly, January 6, 1866, pp. 8-9.
Warner 68x
In 1864, Asa Mercer recruited and brought 11 women to Seattle from the East Coast, to balance the male/female population, serve as teachers, etc. In 1866 he recruited 34 more women for a second trip. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Women--Drawings; Sailing ships--Drawings; Internal migration--Drawings |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Mercer Girls |
| Location Depicted | United States |
| Digital Collection | Arthur Churchill Warner Photographs
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| Order Number | WAR0001 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction-info
Please cite the Order Number when ordering. |
| Negative Number | Warner 68x |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Arthur Churchill Warner Photograph Collection. PH Coll 273 |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | b&w; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | A photographic print was scanned as a 3000 pixels wide TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in width and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
| Project | kcsnap |
