Image: Mercer Girls illustration in 1866 Harper's Weekly (WARNER 0)

Description: Caption on image: On Deck . Photograph of an illustration from Harper's Weekly, January 6, 1866, pp. 8-9 . Warner 68x In 1864, Asa Mercer recruited and brought 11 women to Seattle from the East Coast, to balance the male/female population, serve as teachers, etc. In 1866 he recruited 34 more women for a second trip. Subjects (LCTGM): Women--Drawings; Sailing ships--Drawings; Internal migration--Drawings Subjects (LCSH): Mercer Girls
Title: On Deck (Emigration to Washington Territory of four hundred women on the steamer Continental)
Credit: Arthur Churchill Warner Photographs Collection
Author: Alfred Waud
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