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| Title | Alice Blackwell Reminiscence |
| Finding Aid Identifier | MsSC 184 |
| Finding Aid Title | BLACKWELL, Alice, reminiscence 11 pp. |
| Subject | Finding aid; Alice Blackwell; Tacoma, WA; Washington Territory; Seattle, WA; William B. Blackwell; Chinese Expulsion Act; Chinese Americans; Chinese in Washington |
| Abstract | Alice Blackwell settled in New Tacoma, W.T. in 1873. |
| Biography | Alice Blackwell (1840-1916) and husband, William B. Blackwell (1837-1922), settled in New Tacoma, W.T., in 1873. They opened a hotel, the Blackwell, the first in the city, and invested widely in city real estate. |
| Scope and Content | The collection consists of an eleven-page hand-written reminiscence of the early days in Tacoma written for the Mary Ball Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1913. Mrs. Blackwell details their November 1873 arrival in New Tacoma aboard the first train to travel from Kalama over the newly completed Northern Pacific line. She includes descriptions of the physical appearance of the city, her contempt for Seattle and the intense competition between the two cities, and the Frederick Law Olmstead plan for Tacoma. Mrs. Blackwell renders a particularly harsh judgment on the expulsion of the Chinese from Tacoma in 1885. |
| Keywords | Alice Blackwell, New Tacoma, Washington Territory, 1873, William B. Blackwell, Blackwell Hotel, real estate, Daughters of the American Revolution, train, Kalama, Northern Pacific Railroad, Seattle, Frederick Law Olmstead, expulsion of the Chinese |
| Num of Boxes | 1 |
| Electronic Publisher | Washington State Historical Society |
| Contributors | Washington State Historical Society |
| Object Type | text/pdf |
| Relation | http://research.washingtonhistory.org/collections/findingaids/mssc184.pdf |
| Rights | Property of the Washington State Historical Society – All Rights Reserved |
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