File:Studio portrait of George Frederick Frye, Seattle, circa 1910 (MOHAI 8675).jpg

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English: Studio portrait of George Frederick Frye, Seattle, circa 1910   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
English: James & Bushnell
Title
English: Studio portrait of George Frederick Frye, Seattle, circa 1910
Description
English:

Georg Friedrich Christian Freye was born in Drakenburg, Germany, on January 15, 1833, the son of Otto Friedrich Christian Freye and Sophia Maria Pranga. He immigrated to the US at 16, working for his brother-in-law, Johann F. Rodekohr in Lafayette County, Missouri, until 1852 when he traveled to Oregon. The following year he moved to Seattle. He married Louisa Catherine Denny, daughter of Arthur Armstrong Denny, on October 25, 1860. Louisa and George had six children: James Marion Frye (1861-1905), Marie Louise Frye Kirk (1864-1937), Sophie Frye Bass (1867-1947), George Arthur Frye (1869-1893), Roberta Gertrude Frye Watt (1875-1963), and Elizabeth Helen Frye Bogue (1878-1961). The family resided at 1306 Madison Street.

George and Louisa Frye were active business partners and started a number of successful early Seattle companies. They built the first established theater, Frye's Opera House, the largest venue north of San Francisco, but it burned in the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. George also organized Seattle's first brass band. From 1870 to 1874, George was the purser and later captain of the J.B. Libby , a steamer that delivered mail in northern Puget Sound. Goerge built three hotels in Seattle, the Stevens, the Barker, and the Frye, which attracted President Theodore Roosevelt to the grand opening in 1911. George Frye died in Seattle on May 2, 1912, shortly after the Louisa C. Frye Hotel opened. Louisa Frye continued to manage the hotel and their other business interests until her death in 1924.

This studio portrait of George was taken in Seattle, about 1910, when George was in his 70s.

Embossed on recto: James & Bushnell, Seattle Caption information source: "The Pioneer Dead of 1912," Thomas W. Prosch, The Washington Historical QuarterlyVol. 4, No. 1 (Jan., 1913), pp. 36-43, http://journals.lib.washington.edu/index.php/WHQ/article/view/4973/4050

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Men--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • People: Frye, George F. (George Frederick), 1833-1912
Depicted place
English: United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Date circa 1910
date QS:P571,+1910-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard: b&w
Dimensions height: 11 in (27.9 cm); width: 6 in (15.2 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,11U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,6U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
8675
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
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.
Credit Line
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MOHAI, George and Louisa Frye Family Papers, 1990.45.82

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