Transcribed from front of photograph: "Seattle. Portraits. Seattle, Chief of the Suquamish and allied tribes, 1786?-1866." Transcribed from back of photograph: "The original from which this photograph was made, was taken in 1866 by Richard Sam[m]is a few months before Chief Seattle's death, at the instigation of C.B. Bagley. About 1907 it was enlarged and retouched by James A. Wehn (a drape and a grecian urn were eliminated from the background and a cane removed from the Chief's hands." Handwritten on recto: "E.M. Sammis acc. to article in Seattle Sun, March 1, 1978."