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Garland Ethel photograph collection, 1898-1975
Overview of the Collection
- Collector
- Ethel, Garland, 1902-1980
- Title
- Garland Ethel photograph collection
- Dates
- 1898-1975 (inclusive)18981975
1898-1924 (bulk) - Quantity
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.03 cubic feet (1 folder)
15 photographic prints - Collection Number
- PH0497
- Summary
- Portraits of UW professor of English and others, and postcards of Skagway and other Alaska scenes
- Repository
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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
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The collection is open to the public.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Garland Ethel was born in Okanogan, County, Washington 1899, and educated at University of Washington where he taught in the English Department for 42 years before retiring in 1969. His principle research interest was Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was the assistant editor of the "Moscow News," 1932; and secretary of the American Federation of Teachers, Local 401 (U.W.); and active with the State's Joint Legislative Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities. He died in 1980. He made headlines in 1948 when he was caught up in the so-called "Canwell investigation," a Joe McCarthy-style hunt for Communists. Ethel was cited for contempt by a state legislative committee for refusing to name other UW faculty members who reportedly attended Communist meetings with him. As result of the hearings, the UW Board of Regents put him and two other faculty members on probation.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Photographs from the collection of Garland Ethel. Included in the collection is a photograph taken by a Russian street photographer for a passport in 1932, photographic postcards of scenes in Skagway, some of which depict the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898, and portraits of UW English faculty member Sophus Keith Winther and model Jean Lambert.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
1 black & white photograph of Garland Ethel. 1975.
1 black & white photograph of Garland Ethel used as an exit passport picture when departing Russia. December 1932. Taken by a street photographer in Moscow.
10 photographic postcards collected in Skagway in 1924
-Rounding up Soapy Smith gang at City Hall, Skagway, undated (Case and Draper)
-Soapy Smith, Skagway, undated
-Shooting White Horse Rapids, undated
-Soapy Smith's saloon and bordello, Skagway, undated
-Packtrain. White Pass Canyon, 1898
-Trout catch, Skagway
-Scott C. Bone, Gov. of Alaska (former editor of Seattle P.I.), Mrs. Harding (wife of Pres.), 1923
-Scenes in Skagway, 1924 (4 postcards)
1 studio portrait of Sophus Keith Winther (UW PhD and member of UW English Dept.), circa 1921 or 1922
1 photograph of of Jean Lambert. She was the model for UW sculptor Dudley Pratt's sculpture of the formal figure over the west door of the UW Suzzallo Library.
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
