Reader Photo: The Court In Recess
February 4th, 2008 @ 1:53 am by Cliffe | Sorted Photo Exposure
Vintage Seattle reader and Portland-based historian Kathy Tucker was kind enough to send in this fascinating photograph of her great grandfather and State Supreme Court judge, as a child in Seattle. I’ll let Kathy explain:
I have this old photograph of about 7th and Pike, ca. 1892. From the top down: McBurney Mitchell, Donald A. McDonald (later state supreme court judge, and my g-grandfather), Dr. Herbert Coe, Dubois Mitchell, Harry Coe, last unidentified. My grandmother’s (Elizabeth McDonald Parsons) cousin Marshall McDonald (he has died now) told me that Donald had a sharp wit and that family get togethers were full of zingers and laughter.
At the Washington State Historical Museum right now is an exhibit related to Donald and Bess’s son, Frederick A. McDonald. He was a World War II chaplain, and he went just after the front lines. He collected little shards of glass from religious sanctuaries and saved them in a shoebox for 50 years. Then his friends helped him achieve his dream of having them made into new windows. He died a few years ago, after the project started. The artists interviewed him and incorporated his stories into the windows. The windows include the shards and the artists had a lot of freedom in interpretation. It is on exhibit in Tacoma until March. Here is a link to the windows project: http://www.interfaith-presidio.org/mcdonald/index.htm
At the Washington State Historical Museum right now is an exhibit related to Donald and Bess’s son, Frederick A. McDonald. He was a World War II chaplain, and he went just after the front lines. He collected little shards of glass from religious sanctuaries and saved them in a shoebox for 50 years. Then his friends helped him achieve his dream of having them made into new windows. He died a few years ago, after the project started. The artists interviewed him and incorporated his stories into the windows. The windows include the shards and the artists had a lot of freedom in interpretation. It is on exhibit in Tacoma until March. Here is a link to the windows project: http://www.interfaith-presidio.org/mcdonald/index.htm
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| From the top down: McBurney Mitchell, Donald A. McDonald, Dr. Herbert Coe, Dubois Mitchell, Harry Coe, last unidentified. 7th and Pike, ca. 1892. Photo courtesy Kathy Tucker. |
February 4th, 2008 @ 9:27 am
So they’d be under the glass walkway across Pike at the Convention Center today, just about. This is looking down Pike? Or is it down 7th? Up 7th towards Pacific Place? It’s difficult to get a frame of reference here; nothing in this photo was still there even fifty years ago, let alone now. I’d like to see inside that second-hand shop!
February 4th, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
Awesome photograph. Thanks for sharing Kathy
February 5th, 2008 @ 2:51 am
That is a fantastic photo. My guess is the street we see is 7th, and we are basically looking north, but seeing the west side of the street? I’m guessing all this because if we were facing east we would be looking up hill, and if we were looking west we would looking down more of a slope towrd the water? And at Pike 7th going south is sloping up hill a bit? Even minus I 5, etc?
And I agree, that would be the second hand store to be shopping in!