Oliver S. Van Olinda photographs and ephemera, 1884-1946 PDF

Overview of the Collection

Photographer: Van Olinda, O. S. (Oliver Scott), 1868-1954
Title: Oliver S. Van Olinda photographs and ephemera
Dates: 1884-1946 (inclusive)
18841946

1890-1919 (bulk)
18901919
Quantity: 1 album: 353 photographic prints, 1 drawing, 5 items (1 box) : some hand-colored ; various sizes
101 photographic prints (1 box) : some cyanotype, some hand-colored ; various sizes
30 lantern slides (1 box) : black and white, some hand-colored ; 11 x 9 centimeters
Collection Number: PH0376
Summary: Photographs and slides of community life in Seattle, Vashon Island and Whidbey Island, Washington, made by Oliver S. Van Olinda between 1884 and 1946
Repository: University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 206-543-1929
Fax: 206-543-1931
speccoll@uw.edu
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Languages: English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Oliver Scott Van Olinda, a career newspaperman and early resident of the Pacific Northwest, was born in La Salle County, Illinois, in 1868. In 1884 he traveled with his family in a covered wagon from Bedford, Iowa, to Sidney, Nebraska, where he learned to set type at the Redington Press at age 17. Van Olinda moved from Nebraska to Vashon Island, Washington, in August 1891. His father, Elmer Eugene, sister Mattie, and brother Charles also relocated to Vashon Island. Later another sister, Jessie, was born. Eventually Van Olinda married Vashon resident Ida M. Anderson, with whom he had two children, Myrtle and Andrew Eugene.

Van Olinda and his father ran numerous businesses on the island, including the Island Home newspaper, published from 1895-1897, and the Vashon Island News-Record. His brother Charles served as the first postmaster on Vashon Island, opening the Portage Post Office on May 18, 1903. For three years Oliver S. Van Olinda published another weekly paper, the Stanwood Press, in Stanwood, Snohomish County. Starting about 1900, he also maintained a house on Whidbey Island, where he was the editor of the Island County Times, a Coupeville newspaper. In addition to his newspaper work, Van Olinda managed a commercial wireless station in Olympia for a short while and served for 18 years as historian of the Vashon-Maury Pioneer Society. He was an adept writer whose lively stories of Puget Sound pioneer life for both adults and children included the book History of Vashon-Maury Island, published in 1935.

Other Descriptive InformationReturn to Top

Names appearing in the inventory: Elliston and Chautauqua are names for the current location of Ellisport, the land near Tramp Harbor on the east coast of Vashon Island. The Ram Pasture, believed to have been Oliver S. Van Olinda's first home on the island, was initially a one-room house; it was later renovated into a larger building.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The photographs document life on Vashon Island, Whidbey Island, Seattle, and other communities of Washington State's Puget Sound region from the 1880s into the 1940s. Featured are images of pioneer activities, industries and occupations, recreation, street scenes, and ferries and boat traffic at the turn of the century. Also included are a few photographs of Native American activities such as a potlatch on Whidbey Island. Most of the photographs were taken by Oliver S. Van Olinda.

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Oliver S. Van Olinda Photographs and Ephemera. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, Washington.

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Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box/Folder	item
1/1	1a	Grand Army of the Republic, Sons of Veterans Caption on album: "Gen. Wadsworth Camp #29, Sons of Veterans. W. Cutler, F. Lansing, F. Lindley, H.F. McClintock, O.S. Van Olinda, A. Judd, C. Cristman, J. Mock, C. Jacobs, E. Price, E. Cristman, G. Kingsbury, L. Snow, D.A. Pruitt, H.O. Fuller, F.M. Sherman, L.E. Price."	1892
1/1	1b	Road above Vashon Wharf	1891
1/1	1c	Vashon Lake	1891
1/1	1d	Vashon Center, looking east	1893
1/1	1e	Presbyterian Church, Vashon Center, and the first log-cabin schoolhouse, built in1881	1892
1/2	2a	Grand Army of the Republic group, H.G. Sickles Post 57 From caption on album: Rear: Adam Cristman, C.A. Barton, S.D. Sherman, J.W. Jacobs, J.S. Markham, Lawrence Cristman.Lower: Mark P. Waterman, Jerome Cutler, E.E. Van Olinda, Adolph Sandrock, James Pruit, Daniel Price, George E. Lindley, Isaac Reese, Moses H. Snow, A. Cassler, James E. Mace.	1892
1/2	2b	Vashon Wharf, from top of hill	1893
1/2	2c	Vashon Methodist Church, built in 1885 Same image as items 40g and 44f.	1894
1/2	2d	Grand Army of the Republic Women's Relief Corps, H.G. Sickles Post 37 From caption on album: Rear: Mrs. M.P. Waterman, Mrs. H. Snow, Mrs. Lawrence Cristman, Mrs. S.D. Sherman, Mrs. Lucy Lansing, Mrs. Laura Price, Mrs. Adam Cristman.Front row: Mrs. L.A. Lindley, Mrs. H.E. Fuller, Mrs. E.E. Van Olinda, Mrs. J.W. Jacobs, Mrs. Porthena Morgan, Mrs. W.H. Clark, Mrs. Hattie Jacobs.Second row, standing: Mrs. J.P. Blackburn, Miss Sarah Lindley, Mrs. Joe Dean, Mrs. C.A. Barton, Mrs. Osborn (an organizer from Seattle), Mrs. James Pruit.	1892
1/2	2e	Quartermaster School	1890
1/2	2f	Label from Vashon Island Press	undated
1/2	2g	Label from Press Job Printing Office	undated
1/2	2h	Typed note from [Larry Price?] to Miss Ida Anderson regarding the play Among the Breakers	December 29, 1894
1/3	3a	Judd Creek Bridge	1892
1/3	3b	Vashon Methodist Church	1893
1/3	3c	Vashon Dock Road Same image as item 156.	1891
1/3	3d	Berry pickers at Thompson's Strawberry Ranch Same image as item 46f.	July 4, 1893
1/3	3e	Man with pick-ax and boulder	undated
1/3	3f	Two couples, including Dillon Van Olinda at far left	undated
1/3	3g	Stern wheel steamboat Mary F. Pearley	undated
1/3	3h	O.S. Van Olinda and woman	undated
1/3	3i	Dillon Van Olinda in Harrington greenhouse	undated
1/3	3j	Baptist Church at Vashon Center	1893
1/3	3k	Judd Creek	1891
1/3	3l	Quartermaster Harbor and two-masted sailing ship Same image as item 12c.	circa 1891 or 1893
1/4	4a	Vermontville School with scaffolding	1892
1/4	4b	Vashon Methodist Church	1892
1/4	4c	Hop pickers' picnic at Aquarium	1893
1/4	4d	C.A. Wright farm	circa 1891 or 1892
1/4	4e	J. Boerstler house	1892
1/4	4f	O.S. Van Olinda milking cow into cat's mouth, Whidbey Island	1891
1/4	4g	George Lindley house and family	1894
1/4	4h	Hatch store, Burton	1892
1/4	4i	Native American canoes and people on beach
1/5	5a	Mr. and Mrs. S.D. Sherman French (photographer)	1892
1/5	5b	H.O. Fuller	undated
1/5	5c	Frank Atkins and Howard Darlington spoon feeding a chick	undated
1/5	5d	E.G. Thompson, Montgomery Robb, and Harry Buckner at campsite near Ollala	1893
1/5	5e	Baptist Church with flags and Grand Army of the Republic Women's Relief Corps., H.G. Sickles Post 37 banner, Memorial Day	circa May 30, 1893
1/5	5f	George and John Mock and man on Nipsic	undated
1/6	6a	Native Americans outside canvas shelter	1891
1/6	6b	Native American man, "Whiskey Jim," Whidbey Island	1900
1/6	6c	Native American woman	circa 1895
1/6	6d	Partially carved Siwash canoe	1900
1/6	6e	Native American man and woman with baskets	1892
1/6	6f	Two Native American children	1901
1/6	6g	Steam barge Michigan and Native American canoe next to dock	circa 1900
1/6	6h	Siwash canoe and paddle on beach Same image as item 157.	circa 1895
1/6	6i	Mount Rainier from Vashon	undated
1/6	6j	Native American woman cutting driftwood	circa 1895
1/7	7a	Amos Tilton	undated
1/7	7b	Women, man, and dog on Vashon Dock	1893
1/7	7c	Steamboat Skagit Chief at Vashon Dock	1892
1/7	7d	Loading strawberries onto railcars on barge	circa 1905
1/7	7e	Dillon Van Olinda and Jessie [Harrington?]	undated
1/7	7f	Mattie, Dillon, and Jessie Van Olinda	circa 1905
1/7	7g	Robinson Point light beacon, eastern edge of Maury Island	1891
1/7	7h	Nellie Jacobs and Aggie Yule	circa 1905
1/7	7i	Baptism of Ella Miner, Chautauqua	circa 1893
1/8	8a	Portage	1911
1/8	8b	Portage from the west	1911
1/8	8c	Cleared land and buildings above coast, Tramp Harbor	1885
1/8	8d	Frank U. Miner house and well	undated
1/8	8e	First Rev. R.B. Dilworth house	1884
1/8	8f	Chautauqua	1892
1/8	8g	Still-life Vashon Fruit	1896
1/8	8h	Reverend R.B. Dilworth house	1888
1/9	9a	Group portrait on beach From album caption: Rear: Angie Markham.Front row: Isabel Fuller, Amy Lovering, Sadie Lindley, Ida Anderson.Back row: Anna Wright, Hattie Blackburn, Carrie Blackburn, Julia Markham, Helen Cutler, Anna Bonney.	1894
1/9	9b	Jessie Yule and Jessie Harrington on horse carriage at Vashon Center	1892
1/9	9c	Stern wheel steamboat Multnomah at Chautauqua dock	1892
1/9	9d	Cast photo from Among the Breakers From album caption: Rear: Charles Cristman, P.L. Nye, Capitola Price.Front: W.N. Alexander, Hattie Blackburn, Levi Snow, O.S. Van Olinda, Ida Anderson, Jennie Snow, L.E. Price.	1894
1/10	10a	Frank and Lucy Lansing with baby	1894
1/10	10b	E.G. Thompson, Montgomery Robb, and Harry Buckner with rifles and a dog at campsite near Ollala	1893
1/10	10c	Mattie Van Olinda and John Thompson with large log	1894
1/10	10d	Horace Holbrook's launch Juanita in Deception Pass, Whidbey Island	undated
1/10	10e	Group portrait of picnic party on plank road, Chautauqua	undated
1/10	10f	Ella Start	undated
1/10	10g	Montgomery J. Robb on horsecart	1893
1/10	10h	J.T. Thompson in Uncle Sam costume	1895
1/10	10i	Isabel Fuller	1892
1/11	11a	Harvesters in field at the J.C. Gorsuch farm	June 1893
1/11	11b	Group at Chautauqua	July 4, 1896
1/11	11c	Man with old-growth log	1892
1/11	11d	Cabin with women	1893
1/12	12a	Faculty of Vashon College, first term From album caption: Mrs. A.C. Jones, elocution; Pres. A.C. Jones; Mrs. Anna Farrow, matron; Nora A. Gilmour, librarian; O.S. Van Olinda, stenography; L.P. Venen, languages and higher math; D.E. Crandall, commercial; Cora Teaff, music; W.H.P. Redlinger, military tactics.	October 5, 1892
1/12	12b	Main building, Vashon College First building opened for use on October 25, 1892.	1892
1/12	12c	Quartermaster Harbor and two-masted sailing ship Same image as 31.	circa 1891 or 1893
1/12	12d	Vashon College buildings Original building from 1892, Commercial Hall from 1894 with 1898 addition, and Armory from 1901.	undated
1/12	12e	Men in work clothes with tools and main building of Vashon College	circa 1893
1/12	12f	Small house in snow Album caption: "Ram Pasture."	undated
1/13	13a	Women in a Franklin automobile	1914
1/13	13b	Cougar carcass	1915
1/13	13c	Vashon Center from the south, with Vashon Garage and Vashon Grocery	1932
1/13	13d	People and geese in yard near Kalama, Washington From album caption: Frank W. Gorsuch, Mrs. L.C. Beall, Sr., Ida. M. Van Olinda, Aunt Susie, L.C. Beall, Sr., F. Herthum.	1915
1/13	13e	First post office in Clallam County, made from a tree stump	1878
1/14	14a	1860 lighthouse, Admiralty Head, Whidbey Island	April 15, 1900
1/14	14b	1857 blockhouse at Ebey's Prairie, Whidbey Island	1900
1/14	14c	1860 blockhouse on Crockett farm, Whidbey Island Same image as item 158.	1900
1/14	14d	Chief Charley Snatelum and wife Katie, Coupeville, Whidbey Island Edson, Norman, d. 1968 (photographer) Handwritten on image: "Chief Snaklum and wife, Coupeville, Wash." [final word is illegible].Item 54 is a cropped and enlarged version of this image.	circa 1910
1/14	14e	Native American man, "Whiskey Jimmy," Whidbey Island Caption on image: "Whiskey Jimmy, 104 years old, 1900."	1900
1/14	14f	Whidby Island blockhouse dedication clipping On item: "Whidby Island blockhouse to be dedicated."	September 29, 1938
1/14	14g	Steamship Princess Royal Caption on image says "Princess Alice '14," but the steamship has been verified as the Princess Royal.The Princess Royal , an all-wood vessel, was built in 1906 for Canada Pacific Railway by B.C. Marine Railway in Esquimalt, Canada. By 1913, her light grey hull was painted black, and in the late 1920's, her vertical clearance was increased to accommodate automobiles. After a 27-year career serving Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver B.C., she was sold in 1933 for scrap. (Robert Turner, The Pacific Princesses).	1914
1/14	14h	Steamship Sioux	1914
1/14	14i	Steamship Iroquois	undated
1/15	15a	Pier and west coast of Vashon	undated
1/15	15b	P.L. Nye house with people	1894
1/15	15c	Side-wheel steamboat	undated
1/15	15d	Woman picking hops	undated
1/15	15e	Stern wheel steamboat Skagit Queen	undated
1/15	15f	Elmer Eugene Van Olinda house with man, woman, and young girl	undated
1/16	16a	Unidentified homestead, Vermontville Handwritten on image: "The Old, 1911."	1911
1/16	16b	A. Eugene Van Olinda as a baby in a washtub	circa 1903
1/16	16c	Oliver S. Van Olinda house, Glen Acres Handwritten on image: "1914, The New."	1914
1/16	16d	A. Eugene Van Olinda as a baby sleeping in high chair	circa 1903
1/16	16e	Ida M. and Oliver S. Van Olinda	1897
1/16	16f	Myrtle and Eugene Van Olinda	1903
1/16	16g	Two women with babies	undated
1/16	16h	Eugene and Myrtle Van Olinda on beach	1905
1/17	17a	People on log bridge over a ravine, south of Harrington Greenhouse	1893
1/17	17b	Howard Darlington and Frank Atkins reading outside	1893
1/17	17c	Steamboat Glide	circa 1893
1/17	17d	Men cutting old growth tree	circa 1893
1/17	17e	Steamship Kingston	undated
1/17	17f	B. Jacobs in Grand Army of the Republic uniform	undated
1/17	17g	Landscape	undated
1/17	17h	Landscape with houses in snow	undated
1/17	17i	Frank Atkins and Howard Darlington with sickles	undated
1/17	17j	Group at picnic, Des Moines Album caption: "S. of T. Picnic, Des Moines."	undated
1/18	18a	C.W. Dow house	1894
1/18	18b	Mrs. Ida Anderson Van Olinda and Anna Wright	1897
1/18	18c	Reverend and Mrs. W.H. Leech, of Vashon Methodist Episcopal Church, seated on couch	undated
1/18	18d	Monitor warship U.S.S. Monterey	1894
1/19	19a	Vashon Wharf Road with Mount Rainier	1891
1/19	19b	Landscape with snow	November 1894
1/19	19c	Largest fir tree on Vashon at Snow-Dumbleton homestead, Glen Acres Same image as item 159.	1892
1/19	19d	Small house, "The Ram Pasture" Album caption: "The Ram Pasture."	1895
1/20	20a	Men with baseball equipment From album caption: Rear: VanCamp, Doane, Howard Darlington, Jacobs. Front: Blackburn, Gilman, Horace Lovering, Gibbs.	July 4, 1894
1/20	20b	Vashon Cornet Band From album caption: Rear: Ervin Thompson, H.O. Fuller, Lake Price, bandleader P.L. Nye, Earl Price, Lester Blackburn, Charles Jacobs, William Alexander, Horace Lovering.Front: Ed. Mace, O.S. Van Olinda, Mont. Robb, Earnest Lindley.	undated
1/20	20c	Group at picnic From album caption: Hattie Blackburn, Isabel Fuller, Jessie Yule, George McFarland, Sena Hansen, Carrie Blackburn, Ervin Thompson, Dillon Van Olinda, Jessie Harrington, Mattie Van Olinda, Jay N. Robb, Lester Blackburn.	May 1893
1/20	20d	Vashon School class photo	1894
1/21	21a	Tugboat Michigan and Siwash canoe at dock	1891
1/21	21b	Vashon College Kneeland Foto (photographer) Dates of when the buildings were built are written above each structure.	1904
1/21	21c	Extended E.J. Mace family	November 29, 1921
1/21	21d	Mrs. and Reverend C.R. Pomroy	undated
1/21	21e	Jay N. Robb and group in open automobile	undated
1/22	22a	Sheffield dahlia farm	1920
1/22	22b	O.S. Van Olinda house at Glen Acres	1913
1/22	22c	Elmer Eugene Van Olinda store and post office	1930
1/22	22d	Glen Acres wharf and steamship Daily	1916
1/23	23a	Vashon Center from the north	1914
1/23	23b	Strawberry Festival reception committee [Jennings?] (photographer)	June 28, 1913
1/23	23c	Vashon Center from the south	1915
1/23	23d	Automobile parade, Vashon	July 4, 1916
1/23	23e	Automobile parade and fireworks, Vashon	July 4, 1916
1/24	24a	E.W. Lindley and Mrs. L.A. Lindley in O.S. Van Olinda's Franklin automobile	1913
1/24	24b	Chautauqua sand spit From album caption: Site of later KVI radio station.	1896
1/24	24c	Car on Quartermaster-Center Road	1916
1/24	24d	Boy in snow near O.S. Van Olinda house, Glen Acres	1915
1/25	25a	Ida Van Olinda in War Garden, Glen Acres	1918
1/25	25b	Car ferry Washington leaving Vashon Heights on first trip	August 16, 1919
1/25	25c	Photographer on ladder and Maypole dancing at Vashon High School	May 1, 1915
1/25	25d	Vashon Center, looking north from water tower	1930
1/26	26a	Wedding photo of Captain Louie MacMillan and Beatrice Thompson	1915
1/26	26b	Road to Vashon Wharf	1892
1/26	26c	A. Eugene Van Olinda in uniform and Elmer Eugene Van Olinda with sword	1864
1/26	26d	Portrait of man	undated
1/26	26e	Native American girl	undated
1/26	26f	Wedding of Captain Louie MacMillan and Beatrice Thompson	June 24, 1915
1/27	27a	O.S. Van Olinda house, Glen Acres	1913
1/27	27b	O.S. Van Olinda house	1910
1/27	27c	Mr. and Mrs. J.N. Robb with group	undated
1/27	27d	Man with saw and old growth tree	undated
1/27	27e	Steamship Daring at dock	June 24, 1915
1/27	27f	Wharf	undated
1/27	27g	Downed tree	undated
1/28	28a	Stella McDonald	1893
1/28	28b	Waterman house and family on porch	1894
1/28	28c	First Avenue, Seattle	1892
1/28	28d	Members of Van Olinda and Scott families outside small wooden building	1893
1/29	29a	John F. Stier house	undated
1/29	29b	John F. Stier house	1937
1/29	29c	H. Harrington house with three people	1893
1/29	29d	Two hundred-foot tree next to small building on Floyd Mace farm	undated
1/30	30a	J.T. Blackburn house, one-half mile east of Vashon Center From album caption: In foreground: J.T. Blackburn, Mrs. J.P. Blackburn, Carrie, Hattie, and J. Lester.	1886
1/30	30b	J. Lester Blackburn playing horn with howling dog	undated
1/30	30c	Vashon School House, first milled lumber school house on island Same image as item 160.	1891
1/30	30d	George Mock in front of house	undated
1/31	31a	Mattie Van Olinda in riding attire with horse	1891
1/31	31b	A horse named Doc	undated
1/31	31c	Jessie Harrington and Carrie Blackburn	undated
1/31	31d	Carrie and Hattie Blackburn	undated
1/31	31e	Large tree with snow	undated
1/31	31f	Mattie Van Olinda with another young woman	undated
1/31	31g	Edna Jacobs	undated
1/31	31h	Yellow Egg plums	undated
1/31	31i	Nellie Jacobs and Agnes Yule	1892
1/31	31j	Horse and nursing calf	undated
1/31	31k	Dillon Van Olinda	undated
1/31	31l	Julia Hanson and Mattie Van Olinda	undated
1/31	31m	Myrtle Fuller, Isabel Fuller, and Dillon Van Olinda	undated
1/31	31n	Dillon Van Olinda with shotgun	undated
1/32	32a	Wooden bridge at the S. Harrington greenhouse	1891
1/32	32b	George and Vern Covey building their greenhouse	October 24, 1894
1/32	32c	Steve Stephenson	undated
1/32	32d	Hattie and Carrie Blackburn	undated
1/32	32e	Workers picking hops	1893
1/32	32f	Mattie, Elmer Eugene, and Jessie Van Olinda	1893
1/33	33a	Four-masted sailing ship in Dockton dry-dock, Quartermaster Harbor	undated
1/33	33b	Steamboat Flyer, the first job at Dockton dry-dock, Quartermaster Harbor	1892
1/33	33c	Sailing ship at dock, whaleback steamboat Wetmore in dry-dock, Quartermaster Harbor	July 14, 1892
1/33	33d	"'The Big Rock,' where S.D. Sherman first landed on Vashon Island" Title taken from album caption.	1877
1/33	33e	H.M.S. Hyacinth being secured in Dockton dry-dock, Quartermaster Harbor	October 1892
1/33	33f	Inside Dockton dry-dock from the fore deck of the Wetmore, Quartermaster Harbor	1892
1/33	33g	Whale-back steamboat Wetmore in Dockton dry dock, viewed from the water, Quartermaster Harbor	1892
1/33	33h	Dry dock and several ships, Dockton, Quartermaster Harbor	undated
1/34	34a	West Seattle ferry at Dockton Same image as item 161.	August 14, 1946
1/34	34b	Man with old-growth tree cut into sections	undated
1/34	34c	Dirt road	undated
1/34	34d	Car ferry at Dockton	undated
1/34	34e	J.T. Thompson house	1895
1/34	34f	Landscape	undated
1/34	34g	Portage House
1/35	35a	Boy	undated
1/35	35b	House	undated
1/35	35c	Photographer on pier	undated
1/35	35d	Man with saw and tree stump	undated
1/35	35e	Women in winter clothing	undated
1/35	35f	Ship	undated
1/35	35g	Man with woman on a log	undated
1/35	35h	Man with two women on a log	undated
1/35	35i	Stern wheel steamboat Skagit Chiefundated
1/35	35j	Two men digging	undated
1/35	35k	Stern wheel steamship Pearley at dock	undated
1/35	35l	School photo, Vermontville School	undated
1/35	35m	School, Sumner, Washington	1892
1/35	35n	H.D. Thompson as a boy, on running board of car	undated
1/35	35o	Woodland Park Conservatory, Seattle	1892
1/36	36a	Stern wheel steamship Greyhound	1909
1/35	36b	Post office and other buildings at Aquarium	undated
1/36	36c	Stern wheel steamship The Glide at Vashon Wharf	1895
1/36	36d	Stern wheel steamship Fairhaven Same image as item 162.	undated
1/36	36e	Sailboat	undated
1/36	36f	Steamship Spokane with President Theodore Roosevelt on board Same image as item 163.	undated
1/36	36g	Hybrid steam and sailing ship Grant	undated
1/36	36h	Men in rowboat	undated
1/36	36i	Warship U.S.S. Iowa	circa 1894 or July 13, 1899
1/37	37a	Searight house	1894
1/37	37b	Floyd and Effie Mace on horses with dog	undated
1/37	37c	Mattie Van Olinda in garden	undated
1/37	37d	Isabel Fuller	undated
1/37	37e	Susie, Native American woman	undated
1/37	37f	Woman	undated
1/37	37g	Man	undated
1/37	37h	Men with oxen	undated
1/37	37i	Ed Mace sawmill	undated
1/37	37j	Steamship City of Kingstonundated
1/37	37k	Ed Mace sawmill under construction	1899
1/38	38a	Homer Bull	undated
1/38	38b	Man named Blathers	undated
1/38	38c	Jack Greer in uniform	undated
1/38	38d	Montgomery J. Robb	undated
1/38	38e	A. Linton Gilmore	undated
1/38	38f	O.S. Van Olinda and Ida M. Anderson	undated
1/38	38g	Charles Van Olinda on bicycle	undated
1/38	38h	Charles and Dillon Van Olinda	undated
1/38	38i	Remains of water wheel at Livesley Shingle Mill	1891
1/38	38j	E.L. Giddings	undated
1/38	38k	Large group	undated
1/38	38l	Helen Cutler	undated
1/38	38m	North children	undated
1/39	39a	Second-generation islanders Crane (photographer) Rear: O.S. Van Olinda, J.L. Samson, May Lovering, Isabel Fuller (Mrs. P. McCormick), George Mathis, Andrew Yule, Julia Hanson (Mrs. F.M. Sherman), Frank Lindley, Harriet Sherman (Mrs. W.N. Alexander), unidentified, Edna Jacobs.Middle row: Carrie Blackburn (Mrs. C.S. Tilton), C.S. Tilton, Maggie Sherman (Mrs. Charles F. Van Olinda), Aggie Yule, Saxe McClintock. Front row: Jessie Yule (Mrs. C.D. McKinley), Fay H. McClintock, Maude Jacobs (Mrs. H.O. Fuller), Nellie Jacobs, J. Lester Blackburn, Edith Blanchard, Ida McClintock, Jessie Harrington (Mrs. L. C. Beall).	1892
1/39	39b	Hattie Blackburn, Amos Tilton, Carrie Blackburn, Charles Tilton, Lester Blackburn, J.T. Blackburn, and Mrs. J.T. Blackburn	1892
1/39	39c	Burton with Quartermaster Harbor in background	1892
1/39	39d	H.M.S. Hyacinth being secured in Dockton dry-dock, Quartermaster Harbor	October 1892
1/39	39e	Luella Start	undated
1/39	39f	Hop pickers George Covey, Ed Mace, VanCamp, E. Lindley, Mrs. VanCamp, infant, F. Lindley, Mrs. George Lindley and Sadie Lindley.	undated
1/39	39g	Stern wheel ferry Zephyr	undated
1/39	39h	Steamboat Sophia with people on deck	1893
1/40	40a	Landscape with canoe on water	1892
1/40	40b	Maggie Sherman and Isabel Fuller	undated
1/40	40c	Torpedo boat Rowan	1895
1/40	40d	Vermontville Road	undated
1/40	40e-40f	Elmer Eugene Van Olinda and woman in automobile	October 1908
1/40	40g	Vashon Methodist Church, built in 1885 Same image as items 2c and 44f.	1894
1/40	40h	Bremerton dry dock, first basin	1894
1/40	40i	Still life with strawberries, ferns, and coin	1892
1/40	40j	Ida Van Olinda holding the infant Myrtle in a horse-drawn carriage	1902
1/41	41a	Mace family in front of the J.E. Mace house	1892
1/41	41b	Ida Van Olinda seated at piano	1911
1/41	41c	Zetta Snow	undated
1/41	41d	Carrie Blackburn	undated
1/41	41e	Charles F. Van Olinda	undated
1/41	41f	Effie Mace with a girl and a dog	undated
1/41	41g	Edward Mace	undated
1/41	41h	Ida Mace	undated
1/41	41i	Ida Van Olinda and Amy Lovering	undated
1/41	41j	Ida and O.S. Van Olinda, baby, and woman in Manitou Park, Spokane	1899
1/41	41k	Mattie Van Olinda	undated
1/41	41l	Andersson House with two women on porch	1892
1/42	42a	Ed Mace saw mill	undated
1/42	42b	Post office and other buildings at Aquarium	undated
1/42	42c	Lucy Cutler	undated
1/42	42d	Women and a man with old growth tree	undated
1/42	42e	John and Ida Mace Dunham	undated
1/42	42f	Charles F. Van Olinda as a boy	undated
1/42	42g	Walter Cutler	undated
1/42	42h	Native American infants in cradleboards	undated
1/43	43a	Elmer Eugene Van Olinda house	1918
1/43	43b	Elmer Eugene Van Olinda house	1899
1/43	43c	Elmer Eugene Van Olinda house	1891
1/43	43d	Charles F. Van Olinda with ax and cut tree	1893
1/43	43e	Jessie Van Olinda, wearing a large leaf	undated
1/43	43f	Elmer Eugene Van Olinda with apple tree	1916
1/43	43g	Charles F. Van Olinda shooting a pistol	undated
1/43	43h	O.S. Van Olinda and girl in front of house	1896
1/43	43i	Elmer Eugene Van Olinda with child on horse cart	1896
1/44	44a	Loading strawberries onto rail cars on barge	undated
1/44	44b	Dillon Van Olinda on bicycle	undated
1/44	44c	View of street at Vashon Center	1908
1/44	44d	Dillon I. Van Olinda fishing	undated
1/44	44e	H.S. Lovering and Charles F. Van Olinda fishing	undated
1/44	44f	Vashon Methodist Church, built in 1885 Same image as items 2c and 40g.	1894
1/44	44g	Ida M. Van Olinda with bicycle	undated
1/44	44h	Sailboat underway	undated
1/44	44i	Downed trees	undated
1/44	44j	Skidding logs	undated
1/44	44k	Trees	undated
1/45	45a	Loggers	undated
1/45	45b	Charles F. Van Olinda, H. Weiss, and T. Hansen in automobile, Index, Washington	June 1914
1/45	45c	Ida and O.S. Van Olinda	undated
1/45	45d	Stern wheel steamship Fairhaven Same image as item 164.	undated
1/45	45e	View across bridge, Portage	1908
1/45	45f	View of building from end of bridge, Portage	1908
1/45	45g	Fish from Judd Creek	1899
1/46	46a	Hop pickers, with Nick Mathis identified	1892
1/46	46b	Man and woman on log	undated
1/46	46c	Hop pickers, with Mable Start, Queenie Hopkins, and Luella Start Other persons are not identified.	1892
1/46	46d	Stern wheel steamship The Glide at Vashon Wharf	undated
1/46	46e	Edith Blanchard, Jessie Yule, and Jessie Harrington	1892
1/46	46f	Group of berry pickers at Thompson's Strawberry Ranch Same image as item 3d.	July 4, 1893
1/46	46g	Group standing in from of stacked lumber	undated
1/46	46h	Hop pickers in field, Puyallup, Washington	1892
1/47	47a	Charles Van Olinda (second from right) and other men outside the Portage post office Buck (photographer)	July 1903
1/47	47b	Charles Van Olinda in Navy uniform	1895
1/47	47c-47d	Second automobile owned on Island	July 1907
1/47	47e	Wedding party of Margaret Sherman and Charles Van Olinda, Portage Shows Oliver S. Van Olinda at far right with cable release for camera.	May 21, 1901
1/48	48a	Building near water, Burton Handwritten on mount: "Van Olinda & Erickson, Burton, 1892."	1892
1/48	48b	Man with cut logs	1891
1/48	48c	P.L. Nye property with Mount Rainier in background	1893
1/48	48d	Lindley family in front of large tree	1892
1/48	48e	Group with A. Sandrock at left and A. Beattie at right	1893
1/48	48f	People on raft in Vashon Lake	undated
1/48	48g	A. Beattie at left with a man and woman fishing in a stream	undated
1/48	48h	Cows and trees, later site of laundry	1891
1/48	48i	John and Mattie Thompson in front of old-growth tree	undated
1/49	49a	Potter, Nebraska, from schoolhouse hill Mounted to back cover of album.	August 1888
1/49	49b	Blue ribbon from Vashon-Maury Fair Mounted to back cover of album.	October 1916

PrintsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		Portraits
Box/Folder	item
2/1	50	O.S. Van Olinda	December 1927
2/1	51	Dillon Van Olinda	circa 1900
2/1	52	Stanley Lovejoy with toy sailboat, Coupeville	February 25, 1900
2/1	53	[D. Carl Pearson?], Island County auditor	undated
2/1	54	Chief Snaklum, Coupeville Cropped enlargement of item 14d.	circa 1910
2/1	55	[C?]H. Stockpole, Coupeville	undated
2/1	56	Group on beach Partially identified on verso of image, left to right: Mary Howard, Charley Straub, Lauren Gillespie, [Mary Clegg?], Cecil Mitchell, Carl Gillespie, Ludington, Belle Stoddard.	undated
2/1	57	Baseball team, Coupeville Partially identified on verso of image: Carl Gillespie, Tom Hastie, Dick Hastie, Carl Pearson, [Jenne?], Loren Gillespie, Jenne, Walt Stoddard.	undated
		Vashon Island
Box/Folder	item
2/2	58	Two hundred-foot fir tree on Floyd Mace homestead	1931
2/2	59	Group in front of Elmer Eugene Van Olinda home	undated
2/2	60	Strawberry Festival, Ellisport	undated
2/2	61	People and set tables at Strawberry Festival, Burton	undated
2/2	62	Crowd and cars at Heights Grocery Co., Vashon Heights	undated
		Vashon Island schools
Box/Folder	item
2/3	63	Vermontville School	undated
2/3	64	Vermontville School Names listed on back, but not identified: Henry Holmes, Roy Kimmel, Floyd Mace, and Levi Reed.	undated
2/3	65	School building	undated
2/3	66	Grade School, Vashon From verso of image: Delta Dalton, teacher; Mrs. Morton, principal.	circa 1924
2/3	67	Vashon High	circa 1928
1/1	68	Vashon High and Grade School This oversized photo is stored in Box 1.	1913
		Whidbey Island town scenes
Box/Folder	item
2/4	69	Street and houses, Coupeville	undated
2/4	70	Street and houses, Coupeville	undated
2/4	71	Houses at waterfront, Coupeville	undated
2/4	72	Wooden sidewalk and businesses from the east, Coupeville	undated
2/4	73	Businesses and horse carriages from the west, Coupeville	undated
2/4	74	Houses and church, Coupeville	undated
2/4	75	Man loading wagon, livery stable, and businesses, looking east, Coupeville	1901
2/4	76	O.S. Van Olinda's newspaper, job printing, and wireless office, Coupeville	1908
2/4	77	Interior of Island County Times office, with Carl Pearson and O.S. Van Olinda, Coupeville	May 1903
		Whidbey Island
Box/Folder	item
2/5	78	Portion of Ebey's Prairie, Gould Farm	1901
2/5	79	Portion of Ebey's Prairie, Gould Farm	1901
2/5	80	Portion of Ebey's Prairie, Gould Farm Two copies of same image.	1901
2/5	81	Sabrina Kineth in doorway of one-room wooden building, Smith Prairie	undated
2/5	82	McGrevy house with family group on porch, Coupeville	undated
2/5	83	Judge Stills house On verso of image: "Judge Stills house with no corners."	May 30, 1930
2/5	84	Log cabin with stone chimney, Stills Park	undated
2/5	85	Dance pavilion, Stills Park	undated
2/5	86	Horse plow with O.S. Van Olinda's house in background, East Coupeville	undated
2/5	86a	View south on Main Street, Coupeville, Whidbey Island, Washington	undated
2/5	87	Sam Hancock with Chinese man, "Johnny Gong" and horse team	undated
2/5	88	E.J. Hancock farm, with house, buildings and cows, south of Coupeville Two copies of same image.	1900
2/5	89	Threshing on E.J. Hancock farm	undated
2/5	90	Deception Pass	undated
2/5	91	View of driftwood on beach with John Richards perched on log at 9 a.m.	June 30, 1900
2/5	92	View of coast with Hastie's sailboat Trilby looking northwest from Coupeville	February 11, 1900
2/5	93a	Van Olinda residence, Coupeville, Whidbey Island, Washington	April 23, 1900
2/5	93b	Man with camera on side of cliff	circa 1900
		Seattle
Box/Folder	item
2/6	94	Construction view of Lake Washington Ship Canal	circa 1915
2/6	95	Construction view of Lake Washington Ship Canal	circa 1915
2/6	96	Construction view of Lake Washington Ship Canal with boats in foreground	circa 1915
2/6	97	Construction view of Smith Tower C.V. Coates (photographer)	circa 1914
2/6	98	Gazebo, Woodland Park	1894
2/6	99	Sailors marching in front of O.S. Van Olinda shop, 6th and Olive Street	1918
		Other Puget Sound locations
Box/Folder	item
2/7	100	View of pier, Bremerton	1893
2/7	101	Farm and house, east side of Camano Island	1898
2/7	102	Post Office built in tree stump, on stage road west of Port Angeles C.E. Nailor (photographer)	undated
2/7	103	Jefferson County Court House, Port Townsend	1900
2/7	103a	Methodist Episcopal Church, Port Townsend, Washington Written on verso: M.E. Church and personage. W.H. Leich.	1900
2/7	104	Native Americans with canoe, Port Townsend W.H.L (photographer)	undated
2/7	105	Hop pickers in front of wooden shelter, Puyallup	1892
2/7	106	Lumber mill, Stanwood	undated
2/7	106a	Military troops disembarking from sternwheeler boat, Vancouver, Washington	January 19, 1901
		Boats and a train
Box/Folder	item
2/8	107	Launching of the Gen. George M. Harris, owned by a member of the Lovejoy family	undated
2/8	108	The Gen. George M. Harris after being launched	undated
2/8	109	The motor launch Juanita, owned by Horace Holbrook, overloaded with passengers	undated
2/8	110	The Juanita in Deception Pass	undated
2/8	111	Ferryboat Multnomah	undated
2/8	112	Train	undated
		Skagway, Alaska
Box/Folder	item
2/9	113	View of Skagway, Alaska	1900
2/9	114	Mrs. Leech standing on porch of Methodist Episcopal parsonage, Skagway From verso of image: Mrs. Leech was the first wife to accompany a Methodist Episcopal preacher to Alaska.	1900
		Skagit potlatch, Whidbey Island, Washington
Box/Folder	item
2/10	115	Skagit men cooking food for potlatch, Coupeville, Whidby Island Same image as lantern slide item 131Ltn.	1904
2/10	116	Men playing game of strength	April 18, 1904
2/10	117	Potlatch house with people gathered outside	circa 1904
2/10	118	Skagit potlatch house with canoes on shore Same image as lantern slide item 126Ltn.	circa 1904
2/10	119	Potlatch house, tents and canoes on shore Same image as lantern slide item 127Ltn.	circa 1904
		Native American reburial, Whidbey Island, Washington
Box/Folder	item
2/11	120-124	Reburial, Whidbey Island Item 121 is the same image as lantern slide item 138Ltn, and item 123 is the same image as lantern slide item 139Ltn.	April 17, 1904
2/11	125	Native Americans on Whidbey Island beach, perhaps in regard to cemetery removal	undated

Lantern slidesReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		Skagit potlatch, Whidbey Island, Washington
Box	item
3	126Ltn	Skagit potlatch house and canoes Same image as print item 118.	circa 1904
3	127Ltn	Skagit potlatch house and canoes Same image as print item 119.	circa 1904
3	128Ltn	Skagits and Skagit potlatch house	1902
3	129Ltn	Skagit men with buckets	undated
3	130Ltn	Skagit man with basket on beach	undated
3	131Ltn	Skagit men cooking for potlatch, Coupeville, Whidbey Island Same image as print item 115.	1904
		Native American reburial, Whidbey Island, Washington
Box	item
3	132Ltn-137Ltn	Native American reburial	undated
3	138Ltn	Native American reburial Same image as print item 121.	April 17, 1904
3	139Ltn	Native American reburial Same image as print item 123.	April 17, 1904
		Mount Rainer
Box	item
3	140Ltn-141Ltn	Automobile near Mount Rainier	undated
3	142Ltn	Glacier	undated
		[Vashon Island?]
Box	item
3	143Ltn-144Ltn	Sunset on beach	undated
3	145Ltn	Boat May Flower and bridge	undated
3	146Ltn	People on beach	undated
3	147Ltn	Woman on beach	undated
3	148Ltn	Bay	undated
3	149Ltn	Road over the Puget Sound	undated
3	150Ltn	Myrtle Van Olinda	undated
3	151Ltn	Man with bicycle on dirt road	undated
3	152Ltn	O.S. Van Olinda with decorated bicycle	undated
3	153Ltn	Sheep in field	undated
3	154Ltn	Calf and dog drinking from bucket	undated
3	155Ltn	Newspapermen in print room	undated

Variant prints of images in album and box 2Return to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box/Folder	item
2/12	156	Vashon Dock Road Same image as item 3c.	1891
2/12	157	Siwash canoe and paddle on beach Same image as item 6h.	circa 1895
2/12	158	1860 blockhouse on Crockett farm, Whidbey Island Same image as item 14c.	1900
2/12	159	Largest fir tree on Vashon at Snow-Dumbleton homestead, Glen Acres	1892
2/12	160	Vashon School House, first milled lumber school house on island Same image as item 30c.	1891
2/12	161	West Seattle ferry, at Dockton Same image as item 34a.	August 14, 1946
2/12	162	Stern wheel steamship Fairhaven Same image as item 36d.	undated
2/12	163	Steamship Spokane with President Theodore Roosevelt on board Same image as item 36f.	undated
2/12	164	Stern wheel steamship Fairhaven Same image as item 45d.	undated
2/12	165	Admiralty Head Lighthouse, Whidbey Island, Washington Cyanotype Same image as item 14a.	1900
2/12	166	Vashon College Same image as item 21b.	1904
		Island County Some items may have been taken around the same time and related to the photographs in the Album.
Box/Folder	item
2/13	167-168	Waterfront hillside, Whidbey Island Written on verso of 167: SE of Fort Casey.	circa 1900
2/13	169	Waterfront hillside with man sitting near tree, Whidbey Island Written on verso: SE of Fort Casey.	circa 1900
2/13	170	Waterfront hillside with man sitting on log, Whidbey Island Written on verso of 167: SE of Fort Casey.	circa 1900
2/13	171-172	West waterfront hillside, Whidbey Island Written on verso of 172: Pt. Partridge in distance.	circa 1900
2/13	173	Man standing on cliff, north of Point Partridge, Whidbey Island	April 29, 1900

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms :
Automobiles--Washington (State)--Puget Sound Region--Photographs
Buildings--Washington (State)--Puget Sound Region--Photographs
Canoes and canoeing--Washington (State)--Puget Sound Region--Photographs
Dwellings--Washington (State)--Puget Sound Region--Photographs
Frontier and pioneer life--Washington (State)zPuget Sound Region--Photographs
Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Puget Sound Region--Photographs
Recreation--Washington (State)--Puget Sound Region--Photographs
Salishan Indians--Boats--Photographs
Skagit Indians--Washington (State)--Photographs
Steamboats--Washington (State)--Puget Sound Region--Photographs
Streets--Washington (State)--Puget Sound Region--Photographs
Transportation--Washington (State)--Puget Sound Region--Photographs

Personal Names :
Van Olinda, O. S. (Oliver Scott), 1868-1954--Photographs

Family Names :
Van Olinda family--Photographs

Geographical Names :
Coupeville (Wash.)--Photographs
Puget Sound Region (Wash.)--Photographs
Seattle (Wash.)--Photographs
Vashon Island (Wash.)--Photographs
Whidbey Island (Wash.)--Photographs

Form or Genre Terms :
Cyanotypes
Group portraits
Lantern slides
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs

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