Theodore Peiser

He also documented the debut of the first Seattle Street Railway horse-drawn streetcar in 1884 with mayor John Leary.

He captured images of the area's legislators, such as Samuel H. Piles addressing a crowd at the dedication of the Alki Point Monument.

After the fire and its devastation to his business he fell ill. His doctor advised him to move to California and he planned to sell off his remaining photographic works and equipment.

He wrote a July 1, 1919 column in The Evening News (San Jose) about Emerson P. Harris' book Cooperation and the hope of the consumer about combatting high prices.

[9] Peiser testified about the immigration of Japanese people to San Francisco in a congressional committee hearing in 1921.