"Hon. John Collins," from brochure Seattle and the Orient (1900). Collins was a prominent Seattle businessman and politician (briefly mayor in 1873–1874).
Date
before 1900
date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
. The picture may be rather older: it looks like the same picture appears in an 1891 book: Frederic James Grant, History of Seattle, Washington with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, American Publishing and Engraving Co., p. 134. Accessible online at https://books.google.com/books?id=YK3yZNFmdbUC&printsec=titlepage#PPA1,M1
Source
p. 118 of Seattle and the Orient (more properly, Seattle …and the… Orient), a 1900 "souvenir" pamphlet edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen and published by The Times Printing Company (that is, the Seattle Times).
Scanned at 300 dpi; images cleaned up using Picture Publisher's "remove pattern" feature.
Author
Book edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen. The photos are uncredited.
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== Summary == {{Information |Description="Hon. John Collins," from brochure ''Seattle and the Orient'' (1900). Collins was a prominent Seattle businessman and politician (briefly mayor in 1873–1874). |Source=p. 118 of ''Seattle and the Orient'' (more pr