Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Title
The Coast Magazine Photographs
Date(s)
- c. 1900-1910 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
Biographical history
Honor Wilhelm was born in Shiloh, Ohio in 1870. He graduated from Wittenberg College in 1894 and apprenticed in a law firm. He was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1897. Later that same year, he relocated to Seattle. He began writing for a weekly Presbyterian newspapers, The Daysman, and writing two serials, "Musing of Maffy Moore" and "Scenes in the Sunny South." Through local printer H.L. Pigott, Wilhelm became aware of the recently founded magazine "The Coast," which was struggling financially. Wilhelm purchased the magazine and credited its founders by saying that the two women who started it in 1900, "...deserve praise for the perseverance and pluck with which they met adverse and discouraging conditions." While editing "The Coast," Wilhelm traveled around the northwestern United States. He wrote articles, took photographs, edited manuscripts, and sold advertisements and subscriptions. He sold "The Coast" in 1911 and became an ordained minister. He served congregations in Black Diamond, Sedro Woolley, Auburn, and Seattle. He later led a church service broadcast. He died in 1957 at age 87.
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
Includes photographs taken by editor Honor L Wilhelm and others submitted for inclusion in "The Coast" magazine.
System of arrangement
Photographs have been given a unique identifier. Each photograph has been arranged in numerical order by identifier into a topical series.