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English: Mercer Girls illustration in 1866 Harper's Weekly titled "The Departure"   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Arthur Churchill Warner  (1864–1943)  wikidata:Q56170486
 
Arthur Churchill Warner
Alternative names
A.C. Warner
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 1864 Edit this at Wikidata 1943 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Granby Seattle
Work location
Alaska (1898–1900); Yukon (1898–1900); Seattle Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q56170486
Title
English: Mercer Girls illustration in 1866 Harper's Weekly titled "The Departure"
Description
English:

Photograph of a close-up of inset in illustration from Harper's Weekly, January 6, 1866, pp. 8-9.

Caption on image: The Departure.

Text accompanying image: No more curious or more suggestive Exodus ever took place than the EXODUS OF WOMEN TO WASHINGTON TERRITORY under the leadership of Mr. ASA S. MERCER. The scheme proposed by Mr. MERCER is in every way original and praiseworthy. This gentleman, the Moses of this Exodus from New England to the West, is a graduate of Franklin College, Ohio. He went to Washington Territory five years [...]

Warner 70x

PH Coll 273.A30

In 1864 and again in 1866, Asa Mercer, Seattle pioneer and first president of the University of Washington, led groups of young women known as the Mercer Girls on journeys from the East Coast to Seattle. In 1864, Asa Mercer recruited and brought 11 women to Seattle and in 1866 he recruited 34 more women for a second trip. These women were asked to come to Seattle to increase the numbers of marriageable women in the young city. They were also needed to fill jobs, mostly as teachers. Most, but not all, of the Mercer Girls did end up marrying and settling in the Puget Sound area.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Sailing ships--Massachusetts--Drawings; Crowds--Massachusetts--Drawings
  • Subjects (LCSH): Mercer Girls; Sailing ships--Massachusetts--Drawings; Crowds--Massachusetts--Drawings
Depicted place Massachusetts
Date 1866
date QS:P571,+1866-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium
English: b&w
Dimensions height: 8 in (20.3 cm); width: 10 in (25.4 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,8U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,10U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
275
Source
English: Arthur Churchill Warner Photographs Collection
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The author died in 1943, 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 80 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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WAR0069

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