File:Joseph Lafayette Meek, ca 1865 (PORTRAITS 424).jpg

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English: Joseph Lafayette Meek, ca. 1865   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Joseph Lafayette Meek, ca. 1865
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Image from "History of the Pacific Northwest: Oregon and Washington; embracing an account of the original discoveries on the Pacific coast of North America, 1889".

Printed on image: Col. Joe Meek.

Handwritten on verso: Pioneer Trapper (Scout)

PH Coll 654.58

Joseph Lafeyette Meek was initially a trapper with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, but eventually became a sheriff and Oregon Territory's first U.S. Marshall. The title of "colonel" was purely honorary.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Pioneers--United States
  • Subjects (LCSH): Meek, Joseph Lafayette, 1810-1875; Marshals--United States
Depicted place United States
Date circa 1865
date QS:P571,+1865-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
institution QS:P195,Q219563
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University of Washington: Special Collections
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424
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English: Portraits Collection
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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POR423

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