File:Mercer Girls illustration in 1866 Harper's Weekly showing "The Evening Hymn The Departure The Main Saloon Embarking On Deck" (WARNER 274).jpg

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English: Mercer Girls illustration in 1866 Harper's Weekly showing "The Evening Hymn. The Departure. The Main Saloon. Embarking. On Deck"   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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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
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Alaska (1898–1900); Yukon (1898–1900); Seattle Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q56170486
Title
English: Mercer Girls illustration in 1866 Harper's Weekly showing "The Evening Hymn. The Departure. The Main Saloon. Embarking. On Deck"
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Photograph of an illustration from Harper's Weekly, January 6, 1866, pp. 8-9.

Captions on image: The Evening Hymn. The Departure. The Main Saloon. Embarking. On Deck.

Warner 69x

PH Coll 273.A29

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, 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--Drawings; Women--Drawings; Internal migration--Drawings
  • Subjects (LCSH): Mercer Girls
Depicted place United States
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
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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.

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WAR0068

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