Webster and Stevens

Webster and Stevens was a photographic studio partnership between Ira Webster and Nelson Stevens. They moved from Michigan to Seattle in 1899 and after working for local photography studios for several years, they opened a studio in 1902[1] and photographed Seattle and the Puget Sound region. They helped pioneer the area's commercial and photojournalism fields.[2] Their marketing motto was "Anything. Anytime. Anywhere."[2] Their studio produced more than 60,000 black-and-white photographs of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.[2] They had a contract as photographers for the Seattle Times from 1906 until 1923.[2][1]

Webster & Stevens reprinted work by other studios and developed a photo library they marketed to newspapers and magazines

  • Westlake Boulevard ca. 1908
  • Three images of playgrounds in Seattle from The Argus 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition special issue.
  • Pike Street, published in Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition material
  • City and County Building (now the King County Courthouse) published in The Argus in 1916
  • Alice of Seattle tugboat
  • Jeff Smith (Soupy Sales) Parlor in Skagway ca. 1898 (copied by Webster & Stevens after 1902) marketed as part of the photo library offered to newspapers and magazines

References
  1. "Webster & Stevens photographic firm owners and staff, ca. 1912". digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu.
  2. "Archives West: Webster and Stevens photographs of the Puget Mill Company, December 1918". archiveswest.orbiscascade.org.
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