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Esther Hall Mumford, Independent Researcher and Writer, Seattle

WHC Advisory Board Member

Esther Hall Mumford

Independent Researcher and Writer, Seattle

Ms. Mumford, a resident of Seattle, has a B. A. from the University of Washington and has authored several publications and participated in several projects about Black history in Washington.

Publications

  • Seattle's Black Victorians: 1852-1901. Seattle: Ananse Press (1980)
  • Editor, Seven Stars and Orion, Reflections of the Past Seattle: Ananse Press (1985)
  • "African Americans in Washington," in Peoples of Washington. Pullman: Washington State University Press (1989)
  • The Man Who Founded a Town. Seattle: Ananse Press (1990)
  • Calabash: a Guide to the History, Culture and Art of African Amercians in Seattle and King County. Seattle: (1993)
Seattle General Hospital Nursery.

Three suffragists post signs advocating women's suffrage on the side of a low wood structure in Seattle. Asahel Curtis took this photogrpah for the Washington Equal Suffrage Association.

Ten raspberry pickers, all women, stand in a row at the edge of a raspberry field in Western Washington.

Three American Red Cross women wearing heavy coats and Red Cross caps, offer bottles of milk and doughnuts from baskets to rows of African American soldiers returning to Fort Lewis at the close of World War II. Photo by Turner Richards, Tacoma, WA.