Mr. Nagashima, Seattle, 1927

{{en|1=Born in 1863, Ella McBride began working in the photography field in 1909 when she managed the Edward Curtis Studio. She opened her own studio in 1917 with Wayne Albee. Albee moved to San Diego in 1925, and McBride continued to operate a studio in various Seattle locations. In 1932 she partnered with Richard Anderson; they continued to work together until she retired in 1954 due to her failing eyesight. She died in 1965 at the age of 102. This photograph was taken before the McBride-Anderson partnership began; it is not known which partner was the photographer. Handwritten on sleeve: Nagashima 1927. *Subjects (LCTGM): Japanese Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle *People: Nagashima ---- There were (and are) relatively few Nagashimas in Seattle, so there aren't too many people this could be. Seattle historian Rob Ketcherside has two candidates. The following is paraphrased from my correspondence with him. * Caveat: The 1926-8 Seattle directories don't have any Nagashima in them. * Yasuhei Nagashima (probably too old if the photo is correctly dated) arrived in Seattle in 1911, with enough money to run an ad looking for work that would help him learn English. That ad ran as "

Date

1927

Photographer / author

McBride & Anderson Photographers

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

photograph

Original size

473 × 600 pixels

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