Helen E. Vogt Collection

Collection

Identifier: 1989-09

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Seaman family images including Edwin Manning; postcards local sites; documents and letters pertaining to taxes paid in various Iowa counties. Photographs and postcards of people and places in Davenport. Arrowhead found ca 1900 in Scott County near Sloper Road. Key to Vogt Fish Market See also Acc. #1990-06, #1998-21, SC 929.2 Sea and Ephemera—Schools—Davenport High School---composition book Nellie Seaman

Dates

Creation: circa 1860-1902

Creator

Vogt, Helen E. (Person)
Seaman, Nellie (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

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Biographical / Historical

Helen Elizabeth Vogt was born in Seattle, WA on 8 May 1910 to Harry P. Vogt and Nelle Blanche Seaman Vogt. She attended the University of Washington 1929-31 as a Fine Arts major, then went on to California College of Arts and Crafts, Chouinard Art Institute and University of Redlands. She studied piano with Agnes Behr Just and exhibited watercolors at the Seattle Art Museum. During WWII she worked as a secretary in Washington, D.C. for the War Production Board.

Helen’s parents were both from Scott County, Iowa. The Seaman family farmed and the Vogt family owned a fish market. Nelle’s relatives owned the Frye Packing Plant in Seattle where Harry worked after their marriage in Davenport in 1909. Harry died in Seattle in 1935. After that an arrangement was formed between Helen, her brother, Harald, and her mother to design, build and landscape houses in Washington, Oregon, and California, living in the houses until they had the urge to travel or move on.

Helen Vogt is the author of Westward of ye Laurall Hills (1976), Descendants of Abraham Tegarden (1967) and Descendants of William Seaman of Washington County, Pennsylvania and Allied Families: Hunt, Brasher, McCammant, Wright (1981)

She died in Washington on 11 August 1999 and is buried with her parents in Fairmount Cemetery, Davenport, Iowa.

Extent

1 Box(es)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Physical Location

Range 38 Section 8 [shares box with 1990-06]

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift

Bibliography

Descendants of William Seaman of Washington County, Pennsylvania and Allied Families: Hunt, Brasher, McCammant, Wright (1981) Compiled and edited by Helen Elizabeth Vogt