Name/Title
Coupeville Grocery StoreEntry/Object ID
2019.042.056dDescription
Photo of 8 NW Front Street. Four men are standing in front and a horse hitched to something not in the image is on the left. Whidbey Mercantile, A. B. Coates and Co., Coupeville Grocery Store, Cash and Carry, Sealey's Tavern, Toby's Tavern. On the back: A. B. Coates and son, May 1904. For Jessie and Pearl. Caption on the backing: Coupeville Grocery Store (now Sealey's Tavern). From a sticky note: A.B. Coates and Co. in 1904 (later Sealey's Tavern). AT 67-076. Label on photo mislabeled.
From old negative entry: Negative and print: Toby's Tavern, Sealey's Tavern
A.S. Coates father and son; Everett Boutwell 1912
1964
Island Photo Lab
Per PNRO page 160: built for John Robertson c. 1875, sold to Thomas Calhoun in 1890. By 1896 A. B. Coates and Co. had a store with storage in the east side until 1938. In the 1930s George Hesselgrave sold gasoline and rented a vehicle from the west side. Since the 1930s it has been a tavern.
Whidbey Mercantile Company, Sealey's Tavern, Toby's Tavern
Per the Arcadia Coupeville book, page 103: horse Kit, Alonzo Coates, Selma Coates, Joshua Highwarden, Sheriff Comstock.
From folder: Coupeville, 8 NW Front Street, John Robertson/Thomas Calhoun, A. B. Coates and Co. Store, 1896-1904, Hesselgrave/Sealey's Tavern/Toby's Tavern
From old entry: Unit 6, Drawer A (Coupeville Front St. Grocery/Tavern)Made/Created
Date made
1904Place
City
Coupeville, WashingtonCounty
Island CountyState/Province
WashingtonRegion
Cascades and Plateau, Whidbey IslandContinent
North AmericaNotes
Medium: Photographic PaperLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Coates, AlonzoPerson or Organization
Robertson, John A. S.