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Ernest B. Bertelson photographs, approximately 1930-1949

Overview of the Collection

Photographer
Bertelson, Ernest B.
Title
Ernest B. Bertelson photographs
Dates
approximately 1930-1949 (inclusive)
Quantity
8 boxes, (959 photographic prints and 1484 film copy negatives)
Collection Number
PH0477
Summary
Photographs of Native Americans, mostly Suquamish Indians, and of locations around Puget Sound
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
Access Restrictions

Permission of Visual Materials Curator is required to view originals. Contact Special Collections for more information.

Request at UW

Languages
Collection materials are in English.
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Content Description

Bertelson was a photographer and free-lance writer of, among others, the Suquamish Indians. Most of the images are snapshots taken of various locations around Puget Sound in the 1930-1940s. The Native American images are listed at the end of the inventory and depict various scenes, activities, portraits of the Suquamish Indians, some of which are taken on Indian reservations including Tulalip, Colville, Yakima and Lummi.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.

Preferred Citation

The required credit line for use of images from Special Collections is: University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, plus the negative number.

The negative number is provided with the image and is a letter + number combination such as UW13452; Hegg 1234; or NA1275. A typical credit line would be, University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, UW13452.

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Administrative Information

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Bertelson A-1: Suquamish Indians
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 1, Folder 1
  • Description: Bertelson A-2: Suquamish Indians
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 1, Folder 2
  • Description: Bertelson A-3: Suquamish Indians
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 1, Folder 3
  • Description: Bertelson A-4: Tulalip Indian Reservation; Sam Snider Sneatlum, Mrs. Millholand Sneatlum
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 1, Folder 4
  • Description: Bertelson A-5: Copies of old photographs. Suquamish Indians - Big John, Chief Rogers, William Rogers, Queen Annie Rogers, Little Mose Seattle, Chief Jacob, Charlie Yukton
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 1, Folder 5
  • Description: Bertelson A-6: Puget Sound - Misc
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 1, Folder 6
  • Description: Bertelson B-1: Seattle Parks
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 1, Folder 7
  • Description: Bertelson B-2: Seattle Parks
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 1, Folder 8
  • Description: Bertelson B-3: Seattle - Misc. Pioneer Square
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 1, Folder 9
  • Description: Bertelson B-4: Woodland Park - Heron
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 1, Folder 10
  • Description: Bertelson B-5: Tacoma - Museum
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 1, Folder 11
  • Description: Bertelson B-6: UW crew, 1949. Shellhouse and races - California and UW
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 1, Folder 12
  • Description: Bertelson B-7: Seattle - University of Washington
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 2, Folder 1
  • Description: Bertelson B-8: Seattle - fishing - sport

    Bertelson C-1 Oversize Box 4

    Container: Box PH0477 Box 2, Folder 2
  • Description: Bertelson C-1: Yakima County; Bertelson C-2: Olympic Mountains - Soleduck

    Bertelson C-3 missing

    Container: Box PH0477 Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: Bertelson C-4: Stevens Pass
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 2, Folder 4
  • Description: Bertelson C-5: Cascades - Snoqualmie Pass
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 2, Folder 5
  • Description: Bertelson C-6: Eastern Washington. North Grand Coulee
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 2, Folder 6
  • Description: Bertelson C-7: Jefferson Head
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 2, Folder 7
  • Description: Bertelson C-8: Bainbridge Island. Agate Pass
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 2, Folder 8
  • Description: Bertelson C-9: Priest Rapids
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 2, Folder 9-10
  • Description: Bertelson C-10: Sun Lakes Park. Dry Falls. Moses Lake
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 2, Folder 11
  • Description: Bertelson C-11: Olympic Peninsula. Klaloch. Lake Quinault
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 2, Folder 12
  • Description: Bertelson C-12: Mount Adams. White Salmon Valley. Upper Cowlitz. Randall
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 2, Folder 13
  • Description: Bertelson C-13: Port Gamble cemetery. Unveiling of monument
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 3, Folder 1
  • Description: Bertelson C-14: Washington sports fishing
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 2, Folder 2
  • Description: Bertelson C-15: Skagit River
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: Bertelson C-16a: Cape Flattery
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 2, Folder 4
  • Description: Bertelson C-16c: Cape Flattery
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 3, Folder 5
  • Description: Bertelson C-16d: Cape Flattery
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 3, Folder 6
  • Description: Bertelson C-16e: Cape Flattery
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 3, Folder 7
  • Description: Bertelson C-16f: Cape Flattery
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 3, Folder 8
  • Description: Bertelson C-17: Cape Flattery
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 3, Folder 9
  • Description: Bertelson C-18: Cape Flattery
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 3, Folder 10
  • Description: Bertelson C-19: Quillayute to Ozette
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 3, Folder 11
  • Description: Bertelson C-20: Quillayute to Ozette
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 3, Folder 12
  • Description: Bertelson C-21: Lake Ozette
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 3, Folder 13
  • Description: Bertelson D-1: Chinatown
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 3, Folder 14
  • Description: Bertelson D-2: Sourdough Convention
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 3, Folder 15
  • Description: Bertelson D-3: Tugboat race
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 3, Folder 16
  • Description: Bertelson D-4: Golden Gate Park - San Francisco boats
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 3, Folder 17
  • Description: Bertelson D-5: Coulee Dam
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 4, Folder 1
  • Description: Bertelson D-6: "Egg and I" scenes

    Bertelson E-1, E-2 Oversize Box 3

    Container: Box PH0477 Box 4, Folder 2
  • Description: Bertelson E-3: Seattle - boats
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 4, Folder 3
  • Description: Folder 4: Bertelson E-3: Seattle - boats
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 4, Folder 4
  • Description: Bertelson E-3: Seattle - boats
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 4, Folder 5
  • Description: Bertelson E-4: Seattle - boats (Including 1 image of the Kalakala)
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 4, Folder 6
  • Description: Bertelson E-5: Seattle - boats, fisherman
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 4, Folder 7
  • Description: Bertelson E-6: Indians - Gooseberry Point
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 4, Folder 8
  • Description: Bertelson E-7: Indians - Gooseberry Point
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 4, Folder 9
  • Description: Bertelson E-8: Gooseberry Point. 1946
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 4, Folder 10
  • Description: Bertelson E-9: Indians - Seattle - Misc
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 4, Folder 11
  • Description: Bertelson E-10: Yakima Indian Reservation
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 5, Folder 1
  • Description: Bertelson E-11: Makah Days
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 5, Folder 2
  • Description: Bertelson E-12: Indians - Swinomish

    Bertelson E-13 to E-14 Oversize Box 3

    Container: Box PH0477 Box 5, Folder 3
  • Description: Bertelson F-1: Chipmunks
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 5, Folder 4
  • Description: Bertelson F-2: Bridge, Chief Seattle statue. (Bertelson F-3 Oversize Box 3)
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 5, Folder 5
  • Description: Bertelson F-4: Toppenish Pow-wow
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 5, Folder 6
  • Description: Bertelson F-5: Ballard Locks, Fishermen's Terminal, Shilshole
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 5, Folder 7
  • Description: Bertelson F-6: Scenic Cascades
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 5, Folder 8
  • Description: Bertelson F-7: Cascade Crest Trail
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 5, Folder 9
  • Description: Bertelson F-8: Unidentified location
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 5, Folder 10
  • Description: Bertelson F-9: Unnumbered. Cleaning fish on beach
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 5, Folder 11
  • Description: Unnumbered images
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 5, Folder 12
  • Description: Bertelson C-1: Satus Hills - Ya Kuvio Reservation Sheep raising
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 6, Folder 1
  • Description: Bertelson E-1: Agate Pass Bridge, Salmon Bay
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 6, Folder 2
  • Description: Bertelson E-2: Agate Pass
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 6, Folder 3
  • Description: Bertelson E-13: Indians - Yakima
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 6, Folder 4
  • Description: Bertelson E-14: Indians - Yakima
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 6, Folder 5
  • Description: Bertelson F-3: Crescent City (circa), Oregon, Long Beach (Wa.), Stevens Pass, Seattle, Skagit, Suquamish. Mrs. Ernest Millholland and daughter
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 6, Folder 6
  • Description: 4 b/w photographs of bone game between Makahs and Quileutes on Makah Day celebration held in August
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 6, Folder 7
  • Description: Bertelson Unnumbered. 1 b/w photograph. Yakima men playing stick game.

    1 negative of similar scene in Box 5 Bertelson Unnumbered

    Dates: 1949
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 6, Folder 8
  • Description: 4 b/w snapshots of Ernest Bertelson
    Container: Box PH0477 Box 6, Folder 9
  • Description: 17 b/w photographs. Miscellaneous, unidentified.

    1 photograph A whaler's rattle, very old Property of Charles Swan, Neah Bay Indian / Ernest Bertelson. 1948 (NA795). 1 photograph of Seattle Daily Times going to Island subscribers during ferry strike. Taken at foot of Yesler Way, March 15, 1947

    Container: Box PH0477 Box 6, Folder 10
  • Description: Bertelson photographs previously in subject collections

    Black and white prints of the University of Washington, Washington State plants and wildlife, various locations around Washington State, and boats.

    Container: Box PH0477 Box 6, Folder 11
  • Description: Negatives

    Restricted

    Container: Box PH0477 Box 7
  • Description: Negatives

    Restricted

    Container: Box PH0477 Box 8
  • Description: Negatives

    Restricted

    Container: Box PH0477 Box 9

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Subject Terms

  • Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)

Form or Genre Terms

  • Photographic prints


2008 (Last modified: 5/16/2024)

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