File:Ostensibly President Hayes addressing Seattle crowd at Occidental Hotel, but probably Seattle's memorial for President Garfield, 1881 - DPLA - 2c73c9109d21919d9c9ef2ace690d4bd (page 1).jpg

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Ostensibly President Hayes addressing Seattle crowd at Occidental Hotel, but probably Seattle's memorial for President Garfield, 1881 (

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Alternative names	Theo Peiser; Theodore Peiser
Description	American photographer
Date of birth/death	6 October 1853	11 February 1922
Location of birth/death	California	California
Authority file	: Q56159174 VIAF: 34126673 LCCN: no2002061807 WorldCat

reprinted by Otto T. Frasch, 1882-1958

Title

Ostensibly President Hayes addressing Seattle crowd at Occidental Hotel, but probably Seattle's memorial for President Garfield, 1881

Description

Transcribed from postcard: "President Hayes addressing Seattle's entire population in 1881 where Hotel Seattle now stands." Duplicate photo spl_shp_7292 identifies this gathering as President Garfield's memorial service in 1878. Duplicate photographs in the University of Washington's collection have both descriptions.

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Despite what is written on the postcard (which dates from some 30 years after the fact), this is almost certainly the memorial for Garfield in 1881, not Hayes's visit (which was in 1878). Given that this claims to be Hayes's visit, but is dated 1881, the creator of the postcard (Frasch?) obviously had something wrong. The buntings for both events seem to match but note in particular the building to the right of the hotel. That is missing in (for example) File:Crowd in Occidental Square in front of Occidental Hotel for the visit of President Hayes, Seattle, 1878 (CURTIS 319).jpeg, and was presumably built during the roughly three years between the events.

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President Hayes addressing Seattle crowd at Occidental Hotel, 1878.

Original title

President Hayes addressing Seattle crowd at Occidental Hotel, 1881

Date

1878; 1881

Collection

Seattle Public Library

	Location	Seattle , United States of America
	Coordinates	47° 36′ 24″ N, 122° 19′ 58″ W
	Established	1890
	Website	www.spl.org
	Authority file	: Q7442157 VIAF: 147059007 ISNI: 0000000107435179 LCCN: n50059684 NRHP: 82004253 GND: 4841883-3 WorldCat

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This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by Seattle Public Library as part of a cooperation project. The donation was facilitated by the Digital Public Library of America, via its partner Northwest Digital Heritage.

Record in source catalog
DPLA identifier: 2c73c9109d21919d9c9ef2ace690d4bd
Seattle Public Library identifier: spl_shp_40611

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The author died in 1922, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

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.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

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