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  1. In 1858 #OnThisDate, Giles Wheeler Ford of Olympia, Washington Territory, posted this ad for the first time in the local Pioneer and Democrat newspaper. Just two years later, he drifted away from photography as a full-time occupation. Read more about him in chapter 2 of my book, Artistic and Life-Like: Photography in Washington, 1850-1900.

    timgreyhavens.com/artistic-and

    #photography
    #photohistory
    #vintagephotography
    #daguerreotypes
    #WashingtonTerritory
    #WashingtonState
    #OlympiaWashington

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    ✧ Rock Springs massacre ✧

    The Rock Springs massacre occurred in 1885 in the present-day United States city of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The riot, and resulting massacre of immigrant Chinese miners by white immigrant miners, was the result of racial prejudice toward the Chinese miners, who were perceived to be taking jobs from the white miners...

    #UnitedStates #RockSprings #Wyoming #WashingtonTerritory #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Spr