| Summary: | Photographer Mortimer Leon Oakes (1860-1949) was born in Vermont but is best known for making a wide range of photographic postcards depicting the American west. By 1907 Mr. Oakes had moved to Yakima, Washington, and beginning in 1909 he has an address in Seattle, where he took many pictures of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE). In 1915 he was in San Diego photographing the Panama-California Exposition, and about 1919 he settled in Atascadero, California, where he lived with his fourth wife for the remainder of his life. This photographic postcard by Oakes features young "Leo" and his delivery cart, pulled by dogs, in front the Yukon Grocery on 7th Avenue near Madison Street. The Yukon Grocery appears in Seattle Times ads between 1907 and 1916. Caption information source: https://popsbookshop.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/yakima-susie-and-the-supreme-court-justice 1 photographic postcard: b&w; 5.5 x 3.5 in.
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