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English: Edgar Semple Ames, 1906   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Edwin Frederick Brotze  (1868–1939)  wikidata:Q5346428
 
Edwin Frederick Brotze
Alternative names
Edwin F. Brotze
Description American caricaturist
Date of birth/death 28 May 1868 Edit this at Wikidata 6 December 1939 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death San Antonio Seattle
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q5346428
Title
English: Edgar Semple Ames, 1906
Description
English:

Caption on image: General Manager, Seattle and Lake Washington Waterway Co.

Cartoons and Caricatures of Seattle Citizens (page 6).

Photographs from which these Pen and Ink Sketches were Produced have been furnished principally by James & Bushnell and E.S. Curtis. Engravings by the Art Engraving Company. Published by the Associated Cartoon Service. Artwork by Edwin F. Brotze.

Edgar Ames (1868-1944) was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and graduated from Yale University in 1890. He worked in banking and finance in St. Louis, until moving to Seattle in 1895 to manage the Seattle & Lake Washington Waterway Company on the project of filling the tide lands in Seattle harbor. Subsequently he went to work as president of the Seattle General Contract Company, which oversaw many extensive harbor improvements in the Seattle area. He was also the director of the State Bank of Seattle, the Northwestern Expanded Metal Company of Chicago, and various other companies. In 1909, he married Mrs. Anne Sheldon whom with he had one daughter.

  • Subjects (LCSH): Ames, Edgar Semple, 1868-1944--Caricatures and cartoons; Bankers--Washington (State)--Seattle--Portraits; Businesspeople--Washington (State)--Seattle--Portraits; Men--Washington (State)--Seattle--Portraits
Date 1906
date QS:P571,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
1694
Source
English: Portraits Collection
Permission
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Public domain
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.
Order Number
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POR1651

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