J. W. Thompson photographs, 1952-1959
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Photographer
- Thompson, J. W. (John W.), d. 1978
- Title
- J. W. Thompson photographs
- Dates
- 1952-1959 (inclusive)19521959
- Quantity
- 1670 slides, including color transparencies and black and white negatives 35 mm
- Collection Number
- 2004.43 (accession)
- Summary
- Photographs of Indians of western Washington State, including individual and family posed portraits, school photographs, and images of dancing and ceremonies, fishing and fish preparation scenes, woodcarving and basket weaving
- Repository
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Museum of History & Industry, Sophie Frye Bass Library
P.O. Box 80816
Seattle, WA
98108
Telephone: 2063241126 x102
library@mohai.org - Access Restrictions
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The collection is open to the public by appointment.
- Additional Reference Guides
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A detailed inventory of the slides in available in the repository.
- Languages
- English.
Biographical Note
J. W. Thompson was a Seattle botanist and teacher. In 1943, Thompson, who was one of the best field botanists in the western United States, and the owner of the best private herbarium and botanical library in the Pacific Northwest, gave both his herbarium and library to the University of Washington Department of Botany. In his retirement, Thompson began a second career as a photographer of Pacific Northwest Indians, taking thousands of slides of the Native people of Washington State.
J.W. Thompson died in 1978.
Content Description
Photographs of Indians of western Washington State, mostly taken on reservations. Subjects include individual and family posed portraits, school photographs, and images of dancing and ceremonies, fishing and fish preparation scenes, woodcarving and basket weaving. Tribes depicted: Chehalis, Chinook, Duwamish, Lummi, Makah, Quileute, Quinault, Suquamish, Swinomish, Tulalip and Yakima (Yakama).
The following is an alphabetical list of individuals noted in the images, with the names mostly transcribed from handwritten notes on the slide mounts:
- Alexander, Mary Charles
- Alexander, Mrs.
- Allabush [Warner], Myra
- Bain, Bessie
- Balch
- Balch, Emma
- Balch, Mrs.
- Baldwin, Bernice
- Baldwin, Robert
- Barber [Ides}, Esther
- Barber, Mrs.
- Barker, Nora
- Bennett, Cynthia
- Bennett, Ramona
- Bennett, Walter
- Billy, Marie
- Black, Beatrice
- Black, Sherman
- Bob, Angel
- Bob, Clara
- Bob, Ernestine
- Bob, Helen
- Bob, Leroy
- Bob, Lynette
- Bob, Margery
- Bob, Marlene
- Bob, Sticks
- Bob, Tommy
- Bowechop, Pat]
- Brown, Joanna
- Brown, John C.
- Bruce, Al
- Bryan, Bill
- Butterfield, Marie
- Carol, Joan
- Casimir, August
- Casimir, Lila
- Catli, Mrs. Donald [Johnson, Mary]
- Celestine, Aurelia
- Celestine, Mr.
- Charles, Al
- Charles, Cathy
- Charles, Judy
- Charley, Edwin
- Charley, Roland
- Clapanahow, Tom
- Cole, Fred
- Colfax, Lenny
- Colfax, Roger
- Cultee, Loretta
- Cultee, Steve
- Daniels, Paulette
- Dewey McGee
- Douk, Eddie
- Dover, Harriet
- Eastman, Harvey
- Edge, Jim
- Edwards, Alfreda
- Edwards, David
- Edwards, Eileen
- Edwards, Russell
- Emma
- Fryberg, Delores
- Gene
- George, Addie
- George, Ann
- Gray, Carrie
- Gree, Alec
- Green (McQuillen), Mary
- Green, Del
- Green, Nelson
- Hardwick, Lily Norling
- Harvard, Esther
- Hatch, Patricia
- Heck, Daniel
- Heck, Edith
- Heck, Joan
- Heck, Rena
- Heck, Sammy
- Heck, Tommy
- Heck, Virginia
- Henderson, Betty
- Hicks, Billy
- Hicks, Gloria
- Hicks, Jimmie
- Hilaire, Joe
- Hillaire, Ben
- Hillaire, Daniel
- Hillaire, Esther
- Hillaire, Ethel Diane
- Hillaire, Helen
- Hillaire, Joe
- Hillaire, Lena
- Hillaire, Lewis
- Hillaire, Rosalie
- Hobucket, Tyler
- Holden, Virginia
- Howell, Maydean
- Howiattle, Charley
- Howiattle, Charlie
- Howiattle, Mattie
- Howiattle, Nathan
- Hunte, Lorraine
- Hunter, Arnie
- Hunter, Arnold
- Hunter, Carol
- Hunter, Leo
- Hunter, Lorraine
- Hyasman, Dollietta
- Hyasman, Dolly
- Hyasman, Grace
- Hyasman, Grace Marie
- Hyasman, Leana
- Hyasman, Loretta
- Ides, Bill]
- Ides, Celia
- Ides, Perry
- Ides, Phillip
- Irving, Augusta Tusik
- Irving, Clara
- Irving, Hillary
- Irving, Larry
- Irving, Mike
- Irving, Pauline
- Irving, Polly
- Jackson, Henry M.
- Jackson, Janice
- Jackson, Walter
- James, Alex
- James, Harvey
- James, Harvey J.
- Jefferson, Clarence
- Jefferson, Lillian
- Jimmicum (Dulik), Emma
- Joe, Andrew
- Joe, Eileen
- Joe, Mark Wayne
- Joe, Norma
- Joe, Vivian
- John, Mrs. Herb
- Johnson, Blanche
- Johnson, Conrad
- Johnson, Doris
- Johnson, Judy Swan
- Johnson, Mary
- Johnson, Sadie
- Jones, Bernice
- Jones, Daryle
- Jones, Virginia
- Kahana, Charles
- Kauffman, Dicie Swan
- Kauffman, Yvonee Marie
- Kinley, Alta
- Kinley, Florence
- Kinley, Mavis
- Kinley, Sharon
- Kinley, Verla
- Kowoosh, Baker
- Kowoosh, Peterson
- Lachester, Jack [Ralph]
- LaChester, Ralph ["Lucky"]
- Langlen, Delores]
- Lee, Donnie May
- Lee, Oscar
- Lewis, Ernest
- Lucas, Cathy
- Luggy
- Lunsford, Amelia
- Luscrer, Barbara
- Malmberg, Elizabeth
- Markistrum [Penn], Eustace
- Markistrum, Ada
- Markistrum, Audrey Artis
- Markistrum, Juanita
- Markistrum, Merle Kay
- Markistrum, Terry Elaine
- Markistrum, Woody
- Martin, Arthur
- Martin, August
- Martin, Dean
- Martin, Dennis
- Martin, Eva
- Martin, Fidelis
- Martin, Harvey
- Martin, Paul
- Mc Carty, Harry
- McCarty, Jerry
- McCarty, John
- McCarty, Matilda
- McGee, Dewey
- Metcalf, Leon
- Millholland [Ward], June
- Millholland, Lila
- Millholland, Jo Ernest (Ernie)
- Millholland, June
- Millholland, Lucy
- Millholland, Lydia [Lila]
- Millholland, Rita
- Obi, Martha
- Parker, Beverly
- Parker, Paul
- Parker, Ty
- Patkanim, Chief
- Paul, Ray
- Payne, Walter
- Penn, Agnes
- Penn, Bill
- Penn, Iola
- Penn, Junior
- Penn, Steve
- Penn, William
- Peterson, Helen
- Pickernell, Bessie
- Pickernell, Frank
- Pickernell, John
- Pope, Clarence
- Pope, Frankie
- Pope, Laura
- Pope, Pamela
- Pope, Rose
- Purdy, Elizabeth
- Reed, Leda
- Rieve, Viola
- Robertson, Mable
- Rosander, Leonard
- Russell, Alfreda
- Russell, David
- Russell, Glen
- Russell, Jane
- Russell, John
- Sam, Willard
- Sampos, Alfreda
- Sampson, Charles
- Sampson, Iola
- Sampson, Wilbert
- Sanchez, Annette
- Sanchez, Charles
- Sawyer, Margarie
- Scott, Elaine [?]
- Scott, Marion [?]
- Sealth, Chief
- Seates, Eva
- Seattle, Angeline
- Seattle, Chief
- Secena, Marphy
- Senior, Delores
- Shamblin, Dottie Johnson
- Shaw, Celia
- Shelton, Chief
- Shelton, Harriet
- Shelton, John
- Shelton, Mrs. John
- Sivonen, Bobbie
- Sivonen, Mrs. Nick
- Sivonen, Nick
- Skates, Sandra
- Smeatlum, Amelia
- Smiley, Patty
- Smith, Charley
- Smith, Eileen
- Snell, Bob
- Solomon, Marge
- Soneke [Soeneke] [Dillard], Marilyn
- Sotomish, Sarah
- Stogan, Elizabeth
- Strom , Leon
- Strom, Larry
- Strom, Leon
- Strom, Lillian
- Strom, Sheila
- Strom, Ted
- Strom, Ted, Jr.
- Swan, Bessie
- Swan, Charles
- Swan, Charley
- Swan, Dicie
- Swan, Don
- Swan, Gwen
- Swan, Ides
- Swan, Levi
- Swan, Ruth
- Swan, Don
- Sylvester, Leonard
- Taft, William
- Tedford, Vern
- Thomas, Jean
- Thomas, Jerene
- Thomas, Lorraine
- Thomas, Marilyn
- Thompson, Cynthia
- Thompson, J. W. [?]
- Toby, Elizabeth
- Tom, Geraldine
- Tom, Nancy
- Twiddy, Francis
- Underwood, Burdeen
- Underwood, Dave
- Underwood, Hazel
- Underwood, Kenneth
- Underwood, Robert
- Ward, Alva
- Ward, Ella
- Ward, Shirley
- Wells, Angeline
- Wells, Blanche
- Wheeler, Bubbles
- White Eagle, Arthur
- White Eagle, Ralph
- Wickstrum, George
- Wilbur, Claude
- Wilbur, Claude, Jr.
- Wilbur, Douglas
- Wilbur, Ida
- Wilbur, Jack
- Wilbur, Jack Jr.
- Wilbur, Jimmy
- Wilbur, Johnny Jr.
- Wilbur, Marie
- Wilbur, Nancy
- Wilbur, Richard
- Wilbur, Roberta
- Wilbur, Tandy
- Wilbur, Tandy, Jr.
- Wiley, Regina
- Wilkie, Nell
- Wilkie, Nell
- Wilkie, Pat
- Williams, Mary
- Williams, Verna
- Wilson, Jimmy
- Wilson, Sharon
- Woodruff, Sharon
Use of the Collection
Alternative Forms Available
View selections from the collection in digital format.
Restrictions on Use
The Museum of History & Industry is the owner of the materials in the Sophie Frye Bass Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from MOHAI before any reproduction use. The museum does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.
Preferred Citation
J. W. Thompson photographs, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle
Administrative Information
Location of Collection
3a.3.10Custodial History
John W. Thompson's daughter, Lucile Munz, donated the slides as part of a larger collection to the Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Washington, in 1997. The Maryhill Museum of Art transferred the slides to the Museum of History & Industry in 2004.
Acquisition Information
Transferred from the Maryhill Museum of Art, October 4, 2004.
Processing Note
A detailed inventory to the collection was created by Randal Hertzler in 2005.
Selections from the collection were scanned and included as part of the Olympic Peninsula Community Museum collections in 2006.
Related Materials
J.W. Thompson's photographs of Native Americans living east of the Cascades remain at the Maryhill Museum of Art.
Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a list of slides by tribe or nation, arranged alphabetically.
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Description: Chehalis22 slides
2008.43.1193-.1214
Dates: 1952-1959 -
Description: Chinook19 slides
2004-43.1167-.1185
Dates: 1952-1959 -
Description: Duwamish7 slides
2004.43.1186-1192
Dates: 1952-1959 -
Description: Lummi506 slides
2004.43.661-1166
Dates: 1952-1959 -
Description: Makah423 slides
2004.43.232-654
Dates: 1952-1959 -
Description: Quileute131 slides
2004.43.1270-1283, 1285-1300, 1325-1425
Dates: 1952-1959 -
Description: Quileute; Makah26 slides
2004.43.1284, 1301-1324
Dates: 1952-1959 -
Description: Quinault228 slides
2004.43.1-28, 32-231
Dates: 1952-1959 -
Description: Suquamish6 slides
2004.43.655-656, 1265-1266, 1268-1269
Dates: 1952-1959 -
Description: Swinomish244 slides
2004.43.1426-1479, 1481-1670
Dates: 1952-1959 -
Description: Tulalip51 slides
2004.43.1215-1264, 1267
Dates: 1952-1959 -
Description: Yakima (now Yakama)3 slides
2004.43.29-31
Dates: 1952-1959 -
Description: No tribe identified5 slides
2004.43.657-660, 1480
Dates: 1952-1959
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Chehalis Indians
- Chinook Indians
- Dugout canoes--Washington (State)
- Duwamish Indians
- Indian baskets--Washington (State)
- Indian reservations--Washington (State)
- Indians of North America--Boats--Washington (State)
- Indians of North America--Fishing--Washington (State)
- Lummi Indians
- Makah Indians
- Quileute Indians
- Quinault Indians
- Suquamish Indians
- Swinomish Indians
- Tulalip Indians
- Yakama Indians
