Woman in long coat and hat stands at shoreline next to grassy field next to tall wooden lamp post

Caption: "Light in front of the orchard. For navigation." Back caption: "Mr. Walter took care of this light & I presume Jimmie did too as he grew up. The figure can e cut off." Typed on an envelope with photograph: "10 pictures pertaining to Jimmie Pickett." General George Pickett left Jimmie, his half Indian son with Catherine and William Collins when he went to Virginia to fight in the Civil War. Jimmie's mother, Morning Mist, died shortly after his birth in December 1857. Catherine Collins later became Catherine Walters. The homesteads were in the Olympia, Washington area. Jimmie Pickett, an artist, died in August 1889.

1880
1960

still image

Biery, Galen (collector)

black-and-white photographs
photographs

image/tiff

1 black and white print

Washington (State)

Galen Biery papers and photographs

Digital objects made available by the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University.

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Western Washington University

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