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Courtesy of Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture
Eleanor Barrow Chase standing between her mother, Olive Barrow, and her father, Charles Barrow.
“My dear Mrs. Barrow,” the letter began.
“It has come to my notice that perhaps, without intruding, you would like an expression of my impressions of your daughter, Eleanor Barrow, in recital at Bethel Church, the sixteenth.”
The sender was Raymond Wheeler, director of Wheeler Music Studios in Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, B.C. On June 16, 1939, Wheeler had listened to Eleanor
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