E.M. Sammis Photographs ca. 1861-1866

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E.M. Sammis Photographs ca. 1861-1866

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Photographs documenting various Seattle structures and residents, including the Territorial University of Washington, Seattle buildings, and portraits of Chief Seattle and the Bagley and Chambers families.

27 photographic prints on cartes-de-visite mounts; 1 box

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University of Washington Libraries Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6381130

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Sammis, E. M.

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Before coming to Western Washington, E.M. Sammis had a business in Visalia, California, making portrait daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and carte-de-visite photographs. By 1860, he was working in Olympia, and by 1865, he had moved to Seattle. Sammis made photographs not only of local people but also of the city and various events. These images would probably have been popular not just locally, but also in larger cities like San Francisco, where people craved news of more remote location...