William F. Boyd photograph album, approximately 1889-1891

Overview of the Collection

Photographer
Boyd, William F., 1848-1918
Title
William F. Boyd photograph album
Dates
approximately 1889-1891 (inclusive)
Quantity
104 photographic prints in 1 album (1 box)
Collection Number
PH0034
Summary
Views of Seattle, the hops industry, logging and the aftermath of the Seattle fire
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
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Languages
English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

William Franklin Boyd (1848-1918) was born in Ohio on September 5, 1848. His family later moved to Madison County, Iowa where, in 1865, he apprenticed in a photographic establishment. He married Sarah Ludenbach in 1874. Together they had four childre: Lulu, Reuben, Ruth and Earl. After operating a successful gallery in Des Moines for a number of years, the family relocated to Seattle, Washington in 1888. This studio was destroyed in the Seattle fire on June 6, 1889. He then formed a partnership with George H. Braas which lasted until 1893. During the spring of 1893, Boyd retired from the partnership and established his own business. Boyd died in Portland, Oregon on June 21, 1918.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Images of Seattle street, city park and waterfront scenes; the aftermath of the Seattle Fire of 1889; Snoqualmie Falls; logging activities in Washington; and some Puget Sound Native Americans.

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Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Processing Note

Processed by Marion Brown, 2009

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

 

Container(s) Description Dates
Page item
1 1a Seattle looking west in the aftermath of Seattle Fire from 1st Avenue between Columbia and Cherry Streets.
Caption on page: Fire of 1889. Showing ruins of McDougall- Southwick Building. 1st and Columbia
1889
1 1b Aftermath of Seattle fire of June 6, 1889, looking north at the ruins of the Seattle Lake Shore and Eastern Railway Company tracks, Washington.
Caption on page: Fire of 1889. Roundhouse after fire.
1889
2 2 Looking south on 1st Avenue towards the start of the Seattle fire [Boyd 91]
Caption on page: Start of fire.
1889
3 3a Forest and Wedgwood Rock (also known as "Big Rock"), Seattle [Boyd 38]
Wedgwood Rock is a glacial erratic near the neighborhood of Wedgwood in Seattle, Washington. Prior to the establishment of the Wedgwood neighborhood, the erratic was known first as Lone Rock and later simply as Big Rock. Members of Seattle's Mountaineers Club practiced their rock climbing techniques there and Edmond S. Meany, a professor at the University of Washington brought his students to the rock to learn about glacial movement and land forms.
between 1889 and 1891?
3 3b Three Native American girls in western dress between 1889 and 1891?
3 3c Logging crew with felled trees between 1889 and 1891?
3 3d Ravenna Park, Seattle [Boyd 33] between 1889 and 1891?
4 4 Washington Street, looking west from 3rd Avenue. Seattle, Washington between 1889 and 1891?
5 5a Seattle looking south, showing tents and rebuilding following the Seattle fire 1889
5 5b View over burned district shortly after the Seattle fire [Boyd 54] 1889
6 6a Indian canoes on the waterfront at foot of Washington Street, Seattle [Boyd 22] between 1889 and 1891?
6 6b Salmon in Gordon Creek, Yale, British Columbia
1 : stereo view
between 1889 and 1891?
7 7a Seattle looking north from transfer stables following the Seattle fire [Boyd 32] 1889
7 7b Looking toward Pioneer Place from Second and James following the Seattle fire [Boyd 26] 1889
7 7c Looking toward south from Second Street after the Seattle fire
Same image as item 45b
1889
8 8a Steamer Victoria between 1889 and 1891?
8 8b Photographer standing on bank of Black River
Caption on page: Black River to Cedar and Duwamish.
between 1889 and 1891?
9 9a Mount Rainier between 1889 and 1891?
10 10a The King Street coal wharves, Seattle between 1889 and 1891?
10 10b Big Rock at Ravenna Park, Seattle [Boyd 38] between 1889 and 1891?
10 10c Seattle waterfront showing vessels anchored in harbor between 1889 and 1891?
11 11 Man seated on rubble on the corner Second & Columbia Streets after the Seattle Fire [Boyd 9] 1889
12 12a Indian camp [Boyd 54]
Probably a hop pickers camp
between 1889 and 1891?
12 12b Big Rock at Ravenna Park, Seattle [Boyd 38] between 1889 and 1891?
12 12c Native American man and woman picking hops between 1889 and 1891?
13 13 Front Street, from First and James looking north, Seattle between 1889 and 1891?
14 14a Princess Angeline, daughter of Chief Seattle. between 1889 and 1891?
14 14b Composite view with portraits of Chief Seattle, Princess Angeline and views of Seattle between 1889 and 1891?
15 15a Sawing down a fir tree in the Puget Sound [Boyd 87] between 1889 and 1891?
15 15b Hop pickers with horses and cart in Fawcett's Hop field, Puyallup Valley between 1889 and 1891?
15 15c Fourth of July parade, First Avenue, Seattle between 1889 and 1891?
16 16a Second Street, looking north from Second and Yesler, Seattle between 1889 and 1891?
16 16b U.S. Cruiser Charleston and the steamboat Olympia between 1889 and 1891?
16 16c Occidental Square facing the Pioneer Building, Seattle between 1889 and 1891?
17 17a Men standing next to large logs on railway cars, Seattle waterfront
Same image as item 51c
between 1889 and 1891?
17 17b Looking south from Denny Hill, Seattle between 1889 and 1891?
18 18a-b Two part panorama of Seattle waterfront from coal bunkers. between 1889 and 1891?
19 19a-b Two part panorama of Seattle waterfront from coal bunkers. Steamer Olympian in foreground between 1889 and 1891?
20 20 Silver Vails Falls, Green River between 1889 and 1891?
21 21a View of the Seattle waterfront, looking south from Marion Street
On the left is President Benjamin Harrison disembarking from the steamer City of Seattle docked at Yesler's Wharf on the occasion of his visit to Seattle, Washington.A better copy is in Early Photographers (PHColl 334.Boyd & Braas 1).
May 6, 1891
21 21b Four men standing on top of an Indian fish trap between 1889 and 1891?
21 21c Seattle waterfront with steamers City of Seattle and Fleetwood between 1889 and 1891?
22 22 Snoqualmie Falls [Boyd 30] between 1889 and 1891?
23 23a Hop fields between 1889 and 1891?
23 23b Shoreline between 1889 and 1891?
24 24 Indian horse race at Camas, Washington [Boyd 56] between 1889 and 1891?
25 25a View of farm and fields between 1889 and 1891?
25 25b Indian horse race at Camas, Washington [Boyd 60] between 1889 and 1891?
26 26a C.C. Calkins Hotel, Mercer Island, Washington
This hotel has also been known as the Mercer Island Hotel and the East Seattle Hotel.
between 1889 and 1891?
26 26b Chinese man cooking in ruins following the Seattle fire 1889
26 26c A man in Ravenna Park between 1889 and 1891?
27 27a Loggers and oxen surrounded by felled trees
Oliver Anderson (photographer)
between 1889 and 1891?
27 27b An Indian man and child in a hop field, Washington [Boyd 10]
Caption on image: Indian hop pickers
between 1889 and 1891?
27 27c Hop pickers between 1889 and 1891?
28 28a View over Lake Washington and Leschi Park between 1889 and 1891?
28 28b Entrance to coal mine with horse-drawn coal wagon and men [Boyd 83] between 1889 and 1891?
29 29a Loggers and trees [Boyd 52]
Caption on image: Timber
between 1889 and 1891?
29 29b Log chute between 1889 and 1891?
30 30a Skykomish River scene between 1889 and 1891?
31 31a Composite view with portraits of Chief Seattle, Princess Angeline and views of Seattle between 1889 and 1891?
31 31b 72 people sitting on top of a cedar stump in Sedro, Washington between 1889 and 1891?
32 32a Fountain and people in Ravenna Park, Seattle [Boyd 68] between 1889 and 1891?
32 32b Seattle waterfront looking north from coal bunkers with Steamer Olympian [Boyd 73] between 1889 and 1891?
33 33 Men and women on a beach possibly south of Alki Point, Seattle between 1889 and 1891?
34 34a Men and women in a sailboat shooting guns between 1889 and 1891?
34 34b Loggers and oxen standing near a large fir log [Boyd 86] between 1889 and 1891?
34 34c Men, oxen and logs at the Clothier & English's Logging camp between 1889 and 1891?
35 35 Yesler store on Front and James Street, Seattle
R. W. Brown (Photographer)
Caption on image: N.E. corner. Front & James street, Seattle
1891
36 36 View looking northwest from 7th and Columbia in snow [Boyd 63] between 1889 and 1891?
37 37a Upper Snoqualmie Falls, Washington [Boyd 45] between 1889 and 1891?
37 37b Snoqualmie Falls seen through trees [Boyd 57] between 1889 and 1891?
38 38a Man in a rowboat out in a lake between 1889 and 1891?
38 38b Indian hop pickers with wagon between 1889 and 1891?
38 38c Snoqualmie Falls, Washington [Boyd 48]
Caption on image: Snoqualmie Falls 268 feet
between 1889 and 1891?
39 39a View of the Snoqualmie River, with Mt. "Uncle Si" in distance [Boyd 19] between 1889 and 1891?
39 39b Snoqualmie Falls, Washington between 1889 and 1891?
40 40 Snoqualmie Falls, Washington between 1889 and 1891?
41 41a Logging team with oxen between 1889 and 1891?
41 41b Three men cutting large fir tree between 1889 and 1891?
42 42a Men on log in chute filled with water between 1889 and 1891?
42 42b Hop pickers in McCratey's Hop Field between 1889 and 1891?
42 42c Workers in rock quarry between 1889 and 1891?
43 43a Indian hop pickers between 1889 and 1891?
43 43b Hunt and Patten's lumber mill between 1889 and 1891?
43 43c Two men loading hops into a hop kiln between 1889 and 1891?
44 44a Buildings on east side of Pioneer Square with Boyd & Braas Photography Studio sign between 1889 and 1891?
44 44b Commemorative arch on Yesler Way created for President Harrison's visit to Seattle circa 1891
45 45a Roche Harbor in the San Juan Islands between 1889 and 1891?
45 45b Seattle looking south from Second Street between Marion and Columbia following the Seattle fire
Same image as item 7c
1889
45 45c George Braas sketching on rock at the Snoqualmie Falls, Washington [Boyd 50] between 1889 and 1891?
46 46a The "Three Falls" South fork of the Snoqualmie River [Boyd 51] between 1889 and 1891?
46 46b Office tent Eschelmen, Llewellyn & Co. in the ruins of the Seattle fire 1889
46 46c Upper Snoqualmie Falls, Washington [Boyd 27] between 1889 and 1891?
47 47 Men standing near railroad car loaded with a large piece of timber
Caption on image: 120 feet long. 4 feet square. Weight 97,000 LBS.Handwritten on page: This timber was hand hewed and sent to the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.
circa 1893
48 48 Composite view with portrait of Chief Seattle, Princess Angeline and view of Seattle and Snoqualmie Falls between 1889 and 1891?
49 49 Composite photograph showing portraits of members of Third Avenue Theater stock Company between 1889 and 1891?
50 50 Bridge over a canyon between 1889 and 1891?
51 51a Olympic Mountains viewed from Seattle. between 1889 and 1891?
51 51b Man on a horse in front of a large log
Caption on image: Camp W. Affleck. 24 feet, 63 inches. 5208 feet.
between 1889 and 1891?
51 51c Men standing next to large logs on railway cars, Seattle waterfront
Same image as item 17a
between 1889 and 1891?
51 51d Moonlight on the Puget Sound between 1889 and 1891?
52 52 Snoqualmie Falls, Washington between 1889 and 1891?
53 53 Ruins west from Front Street after the Seattle Fire [Boyd 38] 1889
54 54a Lines at the Tacoma Relief Bureau tent on Territorial University grounds after the Seattle Fire 1889
54 54b Bread line at Tacoma Relief Bureau following the Seattle fire 1889
54 54c Packages of bread and supplies at Tacoma Relief Bureau after the Seattle fire 1889
55 55a Second Avenue from Cherry Street after the Seattle fire [Boyd 25] 1889
55 55b Puppy on a top hat between 1889 and 1891?
55 55c View of Second and Cherry looking south up Yesler Way after the Seattle fire [Boyd 24] 1889
56 56 Panorama of Seattle from coal bunkers [Boyd 65] between 1889 and 1891?

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Great Fire, Seattle, Wash., 1889--Photographs
  • Hops--Harvesting--Washington (State)--Photographs
  • Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Photographs
  • Lumbering--Washington (State)--Photographs
  • Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)

Geographical Names

  • Seattle (Wash.)--History--Photographs
  • Snoqualmie Falls (Wash. : Waterfall)--Photographs
  • Washington (State)--History hotographs

Other Creators

  • Personal Names
    • Braas, George H (photographer)
    Corporate Names
    • Boyd & Braas Company (photographer)