Archives West Finding Aid

Album with 442 black and white photographs reflecting the personal interests and activities of Max Loudon, ca. 1910-1920. The album depicts various activities in Seattle, Washington, the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia. Images include: Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul/Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound RR (pp.1-5); skating on Greenlake (pp. 6, 66); Miles City Roundup, Montana (pp. 7-12); Butte, Montana (p. 21); Mount Rainier National Park (pp. 29-32, 43-44); "Preparedness Day Parade," probably Seattle (pp. 34, 36-38, 45); workers at the Grocetaria Store (pp. 39-40); Volunteer Park (p. 40); Spanish influenza epidemic, 1918 (p. 41); employees of the Stewart and Holmes Drugstore (PP. 46-47); Lake Keechelus (p. 52); Columbia River Highway, Crown Point (pp. 55-56); Lincoln Hotel Fire, 1920 (p. 68); Canadian Pacific RR in British Columbia (p. 72); Victoria, B.C. (p. 74); Niagara Falls (p. 78). Additional images include: nurses; women in working dress; actors and actresses (possibly connected to Metropolitan Theatre: "Very Good Eddie" and "Chu Chin Chow", "Streets of Cairo"). Persons noted: Arch Frizzell, Hazel Galloway, Mabel Loudon, Lena Miller, Isabel Dow, Irma Chase.