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Title	The Old Umbrella Man.
Identifier	spl_shp_14151
Description (transcribed from original)	Portraits. Patton [i.e. Patten], Robert E [i.e. W]. (The old umbrella man). 1811?-1912? 1899. Standing at corner of Second Ave. and Spring St. Used by J.R. Hagar as model for "Sport." Piper & Taft in background.
Subjects (LCSH)	Seattle (Wash.)--Buildings, structures, etc. Central business districts--Washington (State)--Seattle Stores, Retail--Washington (State)--Seattle Second Avenue (Seattle, Wash.) Spring Street (Seattle, Wash.) Umbrellas--Washington (State)--Seattle Hats--Washington (State)--Seattle Patton, Robert W. Bicycle stores--Washington (State)--Seattle Piper & Taft (Seattle, Wash.) Seattle Cycle Company Safes Vaults (Strong rooms)--Washington (State)--Seattle Hager, Dok, 1858-1932
Photographer	Unknown
Neighborhood	Central Business District Downtown
Date Created	1899
Decade	1890-1899
Notes	"In the early 1900's, one of the most curious sights in Seattle was the 'Umbrella Hat Man,' an eccentric old codger who inspired a popular cartoon character. The Umbrella Hat Man was Robert W. Patten, a Civil War veteran who walked Seattle's downtown streets dressed in dark pants, coat and vest and a hat that was actually a miniature silk umbrella to protect his head from the rain. With a long, white beard growing out from under the little umbrella, Patten was a familiar figure to most of the city's people...The Umbrella Man's claim to fame was being used as the model for a cartoon character also called the Umbrella Hat Man in The [Seattle] Times. The cartoon was drawn by a dentist from Indiana who migrated to Seattle, Dr. John Ross Hager. Hager joined The Times in 1906 and took the cartooning name of 'Dok' Hager and turned out a front-page daily cartoon that featured the Umbrella Hat Man and a little 'Dippy Duck.'" (David Suffia, "The man whose umbrella hat made him a cartoon character" Seattle Times, December 26, 1974, p. A13.) Handwritten on photograph, right: 29 CONN."
Digital Measurements	17.49 x 15.01 cm
Digitization Specifications	Master images scanned on Epson 10000 XL flatbed at 600 ppi, 24 bit color, and saved as TIFF files. Adobe Photoshop used to resize images to 300 ppi and convert to JPEG format. Master file size: 43,944,060 bytes.
Collection	The Seattle Historical Photograph Collection
Rights and Reproduction	For information about rights and reproduction, visit http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/rights
Item Type	Photographs
Date Digital	2012-10-04