Edmond Stephen Meany was born December 28, 1862 in East Saginaw, Michigan. He moved west with his family, arriving in Seattle in 1877. He started studying at the Territorial University of Washington, but his education was interrupted in 1880 by the sudden death of his father, Stephen E. Meany. Meany then moved with his mother and the rest of his family to California to stay with relatives. They returned to Seattle in 1882. By holding several jobs at once, Meany was able to support his family as well as put himself through school at the Territorial University. He graduated as valedictorian in the Class of 1885, with a bachelor's degree in science, and later obtained a master's degree in science in 1889. One of the jobs at which Meany worked during this time was newspaper delivery. He soon worked his way up in the newspaper field to become editor and publisher for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. By 1890, Meany had started his own news service called the Washington State News Bureau, and had been hired as press agent to represent Washington state at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Meany served as a state legislator in the sessions of 1891 and 1893 and he initiated legislation setting aside 355 acres to be used for the new campus of the University of Washington, as well as a bill making tuition at the University free. In 1894, Meany became the University's first registrar while also holding positions as an instructor and as secretary to the Board of Regents. He became a full professor and head of the Department of History in 1897, teaching courses in Forestry, American History and Pacific Northwest History. By studying summers at the University of Wisconsin he earned a Master of Letters degree in 1901, completing a thesis on Chief Joseph. Meany was always a friend of the Indians, and over the years became very close to Chief Joseph especially. In 1907 he traveled with Edward S. Curtis to South Dakota to do research and conduct interviews with the Indians of that area. Part of the history of the Sioux Indians in Curtis' North American Indian was written by Meany. Meany was also instrumental in having the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition located on the University's campus in 1909. This led to the clearing of portions of the new campus for the construction of buildings, some of which would later be used by the University. Meany's activities were diverse and numerous. He was secretary of the Young Naturalist's Society, Vice President of the American Forestry Association, President of the Washington State Forestry Association and president of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Society. He was President of the Mountaineers from 1908 until his death in 1935, and was also founder and editor of the Washington Historical Quarterly. His specialty was Pacific Northwest history, especially Washington state history, on which he wrote several books and countless articles and speeches. Through his research and studies he became a collector of documents and photographs important to Pacific Northwest history. In 1929 he donated most of the rare and important documents which he had in his possession to the University of Washington Library. The many honors that came to Meany during his lifetime attest to his great popularity. Mt. Meany in the Olympic Mountains and Meany Crest on Mount Rainier were named for him. The University Tower Hotel originally bore the name Hotel Edmond Meany and the University's auditorium and theatre were named for him in 1914--the first instance of a university building being named for a living person. In 1926 he was given an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the College of Puget Sound and in 1929 he was named Chevalier of the National Order of the French Legion of Honor. President Suzzallo called Meany "Keeper of Traditions," given the rituals and traditions, such as Campus Day or the giving of the Ephebic Oath, which he initiated and helped to maintain. Edmond S. Meany, the University's "Grand Old Man," died on April 22, 1935. He has, perhaps, been the University of Washington's most influential and beloved figure, for he gave so much of himself to the cause of a great university which he considered so very important.
Edmond Stephen Meany was born December 28, 1862 in East Saginaw, Michigan. He moved west with his family, arriving in Seattle in 1877. He started studying at the Territorial University of Washington, but his education was interrupted in 1880 by the sudden death of his father, Stephen E. Meany. Meany then moved with his mother and the rest of his family to California to stay with relatives. They returned to Seattle in 1882. By holding several jobs at once, Meany was able to support his family as well as put himself through school at the Territorial University. He graduated as valedictorian in the Class of 1885, with a bachelor's degree in science, and later obtained a master's degree in science in 1889.
One of the jobs at which Meany worked during this time was newspaper delivery. He soon worked his way up in the newspaper field to become editor and publisher for the
Meany's activities were diverse and numerous. He was secretary of the Young Naturalist's Society, Vice President of the American Forestry Association, President of the Washington State Forestry Association and president of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Society. He was President of the Mountaineers from 1908 until his death in 1935, and was also founder and editor of the
The many honors that came to Meany during his lifetime attest to his great popularity. Mt. Meany in the Olympic Mountains and Meany Crest on Mount Rainier were named for him. The University Tower Hotel originally bore the name Hotel Edmond Meany and the University's auditorium and theatre were named for him in 1914--the first instance of a university building being named for a living person. In 1926 he was given an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the College of Puget Sound and in 1929 he was named Chevalier of the National Order of the French Legion of Honor. President Suzzallo called Meany "Keeper of Traditions," given the rituals and traditions, such as Campus Day or the giving of the Ephebic Oath, which he initiated and helped to maintain. Edmond S. Meany, the University's "Grand Old Man," died on April 22, 1935. He has, perhaps, been the University of Washington's most influential and beloved figure, for he gave so much of himself to the cause of a great university which he considered so very important.
Arranged in nine series.
The collection includes six albums depicting Washington, British Columbia and Alaska native peoples and communities, taken by Meany in 1902-1905. Loose photographs include portraits and other photographs of Edmond S. Meany, the Meany family, and their associates; Indigenous people and communities; and travel and landscapes in Canada and the United States, particularly in the Pacific Northwest and in Mount Rainier National Park. Meany's membership in the Mountaineers, a Seattle outdoors association, is reflected in photographs of Mountaineers' excursions.
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For a description of Edmond S. Meany's excursion along the Washington coast, see his series of articles in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer starting September 3, 1905 (Introduction and Quinault), September 10 (Quileute), September 24 (Makah).
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This album documents a trip to Prince William Sound, Alaska, in 1902, including photographs of Aleut, Tlingit, Bella Bella, Eyak peoples; exhumed Sugpiaq mummies; and its graves, homes, churches, flora, and fauna.
Captioned on page: Edmond S. Meany
Captioned on page: Aleut Mummy. Trip to Prince William Sound, Alaska, July, 1902. Obtained by Bosworth near Columbia Glacier.
Written on verso of duplicate copy: Last mummy from the cave near Columbia Glacier, Prince William Sound, Photograph by the author.
From unverified legacy documentation: Photograph appeared in an article written by Meany.
Written on verso of duplicate copy 1.4: The Ellamar Mummies from Knight Island, Prince William, Sound, Photograph by the author.
From legacy documentation: Photograph appeared in an article written by Edmond S. Meany.
Written on verso of duplicate copy 1.10: A Lonely Grave on Glacier Island. Photograph by the author.
From legacy documentation: Photograph appeared in an article written by Edmond S. Meany.
Written on verso of duplicate copy: Hand and Fragment of Matting from Mummy Cave on Prince William Sound. Photography by the author.
From legacy documentation: Photograph appeared in an article written by Edmond S. Meany.
Written on verso of duplicate copy: Moccasin from Mummy Cave. Photograph by the author.
From legacy documentation: Photograph appeared in an article written by Edmond S. Meany.
Written on verso of duplicate copy: Cranium from Mummy Cave. Photograph by the author.
From legacy documentation: Photograph appeared in an article written by Edmond S. Meany.
Written on verso of duplicates: Present day Aleuts in a bidarka at Ellamar. Photograph by the author. Save picture for Meany.
From unverified legacy documentation: A bidarka is a canoe covered with animal skins, used by the Inuit of Alaska and adjacent regions.
From legacy documentation: Appeared in an article written by Edmond S. Meany.
Written on album page: Tony, the Jap, with Aleut wife.
From legacy documentation: constructed with shakes and logs.
Captioned on page: Yakutat indians coming out with baskets.
Written on verso of duplicate: Yakutak Indians 1902. Meany picture.
Captioned on page: Raven at Sitka.
Probably British Columbia.
Captioned on page: Indian canoe under sail near Bella Bella.
Captioned on page: Siwashes at Orca.
This album documents British Columbia, especially Vancouver Island and its capital Victoria.
Written on verso: Kelse [illeg.].
Written on page: Indian village of Clayoquot
From unverified legacy documentation: the Christie Roman Catholic residential school opened in 1900.
Written on verso of duplicate copy: Thunder and whale monument to the late Chief Maquinna. Friendly Cove, V. I. Indian Monument to Chief Maquinna at Nootka, West Coast of Vancouver Island, Photo by Meany.
Captioned on page: Nootka village.
Captioned on page: Our Camp.
Written on verso of duplicates: Famous Acre at Nootka.
Possibly vicinity of Yuqout.
Possibly Yuqout.
Possibly Yuqout.
Written on page: Point Maquinna.
Written on verso of duplicates: Jewitt's Lake at Nootka.
See item 2.47 for same subject.
Probably the monument pictured elsewhere that marks the meeting of George Vancouver and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra in 1792.
Captioned on page: Suter helped.
Written on verso of duplicates: Old Suter helped.
See item 2.47 for same subject.
Probably the monument pictured elsewhere that marks the meeting of George Vancouver and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra in 1792.
Probably the monument pictured elsewhere that marks the meeting of George Vancouver and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra in 1792.
Captioned on page: the monument.
Probably the monument pictured elsewhere that marks the meeting of George Vancouver and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra in 1792.
Captioned on page: the work completed.
Probably the monument pictured elsewhere that marks the meeting of George Vancouver and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra in 1792.
Captioned on page: Suter or Casko.
Probably the monument pictured elsewhere that marks the meeting of George Vancouver and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra in 1792.
His/Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS)/Navire canadien de Sa Majesté (NCSM) is the prefix for surface ships in the Royal Canadian Navy.
Written on page: Flashlight by C. Bradbury, CPR [Canadian Pacific Railyway] operator.
Tipped in photocopy of original.
Shows text, "Vancouver and Quadra met here in August 1792 under the treaty between Spain and Great Britain of October 1790. Erected by the Washington State University Historical Society, August, 1900."
Captioned on page: near ruined village of Ohiat [Huu-ay-aht] which was formerly used as a fort by the Indians.
Captioned on page: located at the place marked on Admiralty Chart Ohiat [Huu-ay-aht] (ruins), on shore of Barclay Sound between Bamfield Creek and Cape Beale, Canada.
Captioned on page: Putting sta[tion?] cable into tank from
Shows text, "ERECTED by the PEOPLE of BRITISH COLUMBIA TO THE MEMORY OF Sir James Douglas K.C.R., GOVERNOR, Commander in-Chief FROM 1851-1864".
Shows text, "The Fort of the [illeg.] Hudson's Bay Company [illeg.] This Tablet [illeg.] Society [illeg.] MCM".
This album documents Indigenous people who Meany worked with or knew, as well as their communities . Unless stated otherwise, all subjects in this series are Indigenous people.
Written on facing page: old Lummi village located on the east bank of the present channel of the Nooksack river near the mouth.
Written on facing page: Remnant of a once prosperous Boarding School . Only a small day school is now maintained there.
Written on facing page: Grain field belonging to Peter Heck on the land leased from the Chehalis School farm.
Peter Heck was the Bishop (so styled) of the Indian Shaker Church, on the Chehalis Indian Reservation.
Written on facing page: Mrs. Lena Heck [...] Her father was from Humptulips and her mother from Chehalis.
Written on facing page: His father was from Humptulips and earned the name of Quinotle because after moving to the Chehalis Reservation he continued to praise his old Quinault home. George gave me valuable help as interpreter in recording the legends by See-see-nah.
Written on facing page: A patriarch of the Chehalis tribe from whom I got a number of legends and traditions. His father's father was Quinault. His father married a Chehalis woman and owned lands along the Chehalis river. Their summer home was near the present site of Centralia.
Written on verso of duplicate: See-see-nah, patriarch of the Chehalis Tribe, Photo by Meany, Save picture for Meany,.
Written on facing page: He was born in Fountain County, Indiana, 8 September 1827. He crossed the plains to California in 1849 and landed at Fort Nisqually from the Brig Cayuga, Captain Lafayette Balch, in 18 January 1850. He is about the last of the first pioneers of Mound Prairie. A blockhouse fort was built near his home during the Indian War of 1855-1856.
Subject was a white settler in Washington.
Written on facing page: She crossed the plains with her father, L. J. Mounts, in 1853. She was married to Mr. Sargent on 30 January, 1861.
Subject was a white settler in Washington.
From legacy documentation: Fort Borst (1856-1856) - The blockhouse was erected by Oregon Volunteers for protection of the Chehalis river crossing and for storage of supplies needed by troops engaged in the Washington Indian Wars. Joseph Borst owned land in Chehalis, Washington state. He bought the blockhouse and used it as a granary. Skookum Chuck is Chinook name for rapids. The old military road crossed the river at this place, a ferry having been built and operated by Tom and William Cooper.
Written on facing page: Fort Borst (1856-1856) - Built on the farm of Joseph Borst on the bank of the Chehalis river near the mouth of Skookum Chuck in May, 1856. The old military road crossed the river at this place, a ferry being built and operated by Tom and William Cooper.
From legacy documentation: Fort Borst (1856-1856) - The blockhouse was erected by Oregon Volunteers for protection of the Chehalis river crossing and for storage of supplies needed by troops engaged in the Washington Indian Wars. Joseph Borst owned land in Chehalis, Washington state. He bought the blockhouse and used it as a granary. Skookum Chuck is Chinook name for rapids. The old military road crossed the river at this place, a ferry having been built and operated by Tom and William Cooper.
Written on facing page: Taken from the side of the old military road.
Written on facing page: Grave of Joseph Borst on the old farm.
Dr. James H. Roundtree moved to Chehalis from Grays Harbor, Washington.
Written on facing page: Grave for James H. Roundtree on the old Borst farm.
Written on facing page: His father was from Chehalis and his mother from Squaxin.
Written on facing page: Her father was Skagit and her mother Snohomish.
Written on facing page:: Her father was Johnny Scalapeen[?] of Squaxin and her mother Mary George of Puyallup. Her husband is William Bagley, a half-breed.
Written on facing page: She was formerly the wife of Johnny Scalapeen.
Written on facing page: A member of the Squaxin family.
Written on facing page: Little day school of the Skokomish Reservation. It was formerly the mission church in which Rev. Myron Eells held services so long.
Written on facing page: This is the site of the once prosperous agency and Boarding School.
Written on facing page: Old house in the orchard of Thomas Webb, the pioneer Skokomish farmer who settled there in 1854. Our cherry tree measured thirteen feet and five inches in girth.
Written on facing page: His father and mother were straight Skokomish. He claims relationship to E-dag-tan, Pool-hole-tan and Dan-whil-luk, Skokomish chiefs who signed the Point No Point Treaty of 26 January, 1855.
Written on verso of duplicate: Skokomish.
Written on facing page: His father was Isaac Hawk, a white farmer who lived near Sherlock. His mother was a Skokomish Indian woman.
Written on facing page: He went to the Skokomish Reservation as a missionary in June, 1874. He has remained there ever since.
Subject was a white settler in Washington.
Written on verso of duplicate copy: Skokomish.
Written on facing page: His father was from Quilcene and his mother from Clifton. He is thus straight Twana.
From legacy documentation: Twana is the collective name for a group of nine Coast Salish peoples in the northern-mid Puget Sound region of whom the Skokomish are the main surviving group.
Written on facing page: His father was a North Bay Squaxin and his mother was Skokomish. He is an old resident of the Skokomish Reservation.
Written on facing page: Day school for the Clallams at Jamestown.
Written on facing page: Shaker church built by the Clallam Indians at Jamestown.
Written on facing page: His father was a Clallam while his mother was half Clallam and half Suquamish (Chief Seattle's tribe).
Written on verso of duplicate copy: Chief of Clallamus [sic].
Written on facing page: His father and mother were both Clallams.
Written on facing page: He says his father and mother were both Clallams of Dungeness. His wife is a half-breed Clallam. His father was a white man named Allen.
Written on facing page: the daughter of Henry Johnson, of Jamestown.
Written on facing page: She was also known as He-due-a-suks. Her home was at Too-Yess and she is therefore a Makah. She is married to Frank Jackson, a Clallam.
Written on facing page: The last survivor of the village that occupied Clallam Bay. He says he will now live at Neah Bay for whiskey has killed off all his people. His father was a Makah and his mother a Dungeness Clallam.
Written beneath the photograph. Said to be 107 years old, oldest of Chief Seattle's Tribe. Labor Carnival, Seattle
From legacy documentation: Susquamish tipis [sic].
Written beneath the photograph: Camp of Port Madison Indians, Labor Carnival, Seattle.
Written beneath the photograph: Picnic at Port Madison Indian Reservation.
Written on verso of duplicate: Mrs. Kane.
A National Historic Site since 1990, the Old-Man-House (or Oleman House in Chinook Jargon), was the largest winter longhouse in Washington, in the Suquamish winter village of dxʷsəq̓ʷəb (Clear Saltwater), which itself is near contemporary Suquamish, Washington. This photo shows one remaining piling from the original winter longhouse razed by Office of Indian Affairs Agent William DeShaw on orders by the federal government. Members of the Suquamish Tribe rebuilt the site in the years following, and it has been cared for continuously since time immemorial.
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Written on page: Last pillar of Ole Man House.
Written on page: [...] daughter of Old Indian John of Old Man House.
Written on page: Charley Krokuk's father was named by A. A. Denny at Alki Point, 1851. Old Man House.
Written on page: Tecumseh's father was named Ole Man House by A. A. Denny at Alki Point, 1851.
On the site rebuilt after the razing of the original longhouse in the late 19th century.
This album documents Indigenous people who Meany worked with or knew, as well as their communities. Unless stated otherwise, all subjects in this series are Indigenous people.
Chief Joseph (Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, Hinmatóowyalahtq́it in Americanist orthography, popularly known as Chief Joseph, or Young Joseph (March 3, 1840 , Wallowa Valley, Oregon-September 21, 1904, Colville Indian Reservation, Washington), succeeded his father Tuekakas (Chief Joseph the Elder) as the leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe indigenous to the Wallowa Valley in northeastern Oregon, in the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States.)
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Written on facing page: Hush-Low, the Medicine Man opening coffin. The chief had been buried nine months.
From legacy documentation: Chief Moses (born Kwiltalahun, later called Sulk-stalk-scosum - "The Sun Chief") was an indigenous chief of the Sanchez-Columbia tribe, in what is now Washington state.
Fort Spokane and Fort Simcoe were erected by the United States Army in the Washington Territory to quarter troops assisting in the removal, relocation, and policing of Indigenous people in Yakima, Colville, Spokane, and other communities. The Bureau of Indian Affairs was a division of the federal Department of War until 1849.
Fort Simcoe was used as a fort for four years (1856-1860), before becoming the Yakima Indian Agency office and boarding school until 1922. Fort Spokane (1880-1929) was established as an explicit device for separating Spokane, Colville, and other Interior Salish peoples into reservations with the threat of force. The construction of the Grand Coulee Dam flooded much of the land surrounding Fort Spokane, destroying significant cultural and historical sites for native peoples of the area, and creating Lake Franklin Delano Roosevelt which the Fort now borders.
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Granville Owen Haler (January 31, 1819–May 2, 1897) was a highly decorated Army Major who was stationed in the Pacific Northwest for many of the "Indians Wars" in the Pacific Northwest. As a result, Major Haler participated in the relocation and destruction of Nez Perce communities, and was a belligerent in the Yakima War (1855-1858), which itself led to the creation of the Yakama Indian Reservation among others.
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Written on facing page: Major Granville Owen Haler's Battlefield near Fort Simcoe.
Written on facing page: Major Haler's line of retreat.
Written on facing page: It was brought around Cape Horn and packed over the mountains from The Dalles, costing the Government $60,000.
Written on facing paper: Old building at Fort Simcoe now used as a blacksmith shop.
Written on facing page: His father was a Frenchman in the employ of the Hudson Bay Company. His mother was a Stickeen Indian. As a student engineer he was well known among the pioneers of Puget Sound.
Written on facing page: The disciplinarian at the Fort Simcoe school.
Written on facing page: It is claimed that this is the oldest sawmill in continuous use on the Pacific Coast. It was built in 1853.
Written on facing page: Sawyer in charge of the old mill.
Written on facing page: a protege of [Father Eugene Casimir Chirouse].
From legacy documentation: Father Eugene Casimir Chirouse served as a missionary in the Pacific Northwest.
Written on facing page: Only surviving son of Chief Pat Kanim.
From legacy documentation: Chief Pat Kanim was chief of the Snoqualmoo [Snoqualmie] and Snohomish tribe in what is now modern Washington state. Circa 1855.
Written on facing page: He signed the Point Elliott Treaty, 22 January, 1855. His Indian name is Step-Shail
Written on facing page: Built under the leadership of Chief Enias.
Written on facing page: Built under the leadership of Chief Old Nelson.
Written on facing page: He saved three white children and took them in his canoe to Seattle after the White River massacre, 28 October, 1855.
Written on facing page: Blacksmith. Mexican War veteran and also a pioneer who took part in the Indian Wars of the Northwest. He married an Indian woman of Muckleshoot.
Colbert Nason was a white settler in Washington.
Written on facing page: Daughter of farmer Charles A Reynolds of the Muckleshoot Reservation She is a granddaughter of Colbert F. Nason.
Written on facing page: Mount Rainier looms up in the distance but does not show in this picture.
Written on facing page: He is a veteran hostile of the Indian War of 1855-1856 [Puget Sound War]. Now he runs a canoe ferry over the Nisqually river at the mouth of Muck creek.
Written on facing page: He is sometimes called Fat Jack and sometimes Kanaka Jack.
Written on facing page: He often serves as an interpreter and is well educated.
Written on page: Old Potlach House on the Swinomish Reservation.
Written on facing page: As a boy he attended the Point Elliott Treaty Council , 22 January 1855.
Written on facing page: Farmer in charge of the Lummi Reservation. His father was an Irishman and his mother a Lummi Indian woman.
Written on facing page: He is the son of Whai-Lan-hu or Davy Crockett, sub-chief of the Lummi Tribe, who signed the Treaty, 22 January, 1855.
Written on facing page: A patriarch of the Lummi Tribe.
Written on facing page: The figure represents the sun carrying in each hand a box of goods. It is the Chief's Tamanous for making potlatches.
This album documents Indigenous people who Meany worked with or knew, as well as their communities. Unless stated otherwise, all subjects in this series are Indigenous people.
Written on facing page: His father was Head Chief, Teth-bo-lab who signed the treaty.
Written on facing page: son of Captain Mason.
Probably on Quinault Reservation.
Written on facing page: For forty years he was the slave of Captain Mason and his father before him.
Written on facing page: son of Lighthouse Charley, Chief of the Willapa Indians. He is somewhat fond of his flattened head.
Marker additions to photo surface possibly added by the photographer.
Written on facing page: He is the son of a chief. His home is at Queets.
Written on facing page: James Brown of Claylock [Kalaloch/k'-E-le-ok]. He is a pioneer and an Indian fighter.
Written on facing page: she is the daughter of Joe [Cole].
Written on facing page: Near this village [Juan Francisco de la] Bodega y Quadra lost a boat's crew in July 1775. The Indians killed them to get the iron and copper from the boat.
Possibly from vicinity of Little James Island.
Written on facing page: It is an ancient Quillayute [sic] fortress.
Written on facing page: Totem pole at La Push.
Written on facing pages: Totem in the Tamanous house at La Push.
Written on facing page: Magic rattles of Kla-kish-ka.
Written on facing page: Return of a berry picker.
See also item 75 for same subject.
Written on facing page: Wispoh of Ozette.
Possibly Harry C. Coffman.
Written on facing page: Near view of the carved rocks at Ozette. Wispoh, [a member of the Makah tribe], says they are very old but he does not know who did the work or what the pictures mean.
Written on facing page: Harry Coffman of our party.
A "Harry Canby Coffman" appears in the University of Washington Catalog from 1902-1906 as a Librarian.
Coffman was a white settler in Washington.
Written on facing page: Albert Gale of our party.
Subject was a white settler in Washington.
Written on facing page: Edmond S. Meany of our party.
Written on facing page: The three of us.
Subjects were white settlers in Washington.
Written on facing page: Arch on the beach.
Torn in three pieces.
Written on facing page: Snap of snipes.
Written on facing page: in the salmon season.
Written on facing page: Blind old singer of the Makahs.
This album documents environments in Washington State, especially Mount Rainier and Pierce and Lewis Counties.
From unverified legacy documentation: John Reese set up summer tent camps in the 1890s.
Written on verso: Aunt Lizzie, Ed. S. Meany, 21 yrs. Taken 6/5/84.
Written on verso: E. S. Meany, Seattle, W. T.
Print on duplicate: MEANY, THE ALUMNUS. The Year Following Graduation.
Written on verso: Yours faithfully, Edmond S. Meany, Seattle, 11/1/92.
Written on verso: H. O. Chipman, Anna Sparling, Agnes Greene, Elisha Alvord, Hettie Greene, Carrie Alvord, Ed[mond]. S. Meany. Combined with Caesar Class to make Virgil Class 2/15/83.
Written on verso: Greek Class -1883. Professor Martha Hansee (holding book?).
Written on verso: Professor of History in University of Washington.
See also item 1.1.
Shows subjects with badges, possibly for Campus Day.
Printed on photograph: After Dinner Address.
Written on verso: Campus Day 1907.
Possibly University of Washington faculty members.
Written on accompanying paper: Original advisory committee for the statue of George Washington on campus.
Illegible signature written below the photograph with a date of July 1909.
Written on verso: Uncle Tom Gambill - Professor Edmond Meany and a friend. Uncle Tom received his honorary degree - D.D. from U. of W.
From unverified legacy documentation: Thomas Gambill served Methodist students at the University of Washington.
Henry Suzzallo (August 22, 1875–September 25, 1933) was the president of the University of Washington from 1915 to 1926.
Probably at the dedication of Husky Stadium.
Copy print.
Written on verso: Florence Rogers ([née] Cassill)? Edna McCreary? or Ruth McKnight? Class of '22 or '23, I think both Kappa's? [sic].
Copy print.
Copy print.
Copy print.
Written on verso: Romans, Seattle. Professor Meany + Professor Kincaid.
Written on verso of duplicate: Campus Day.
Copy print.
Lee Paul Sieg was president of the University of Washington from 1934 to 1946.
Copy print from the
Shows same ribbon as seen in item 19.
Probably delivering a speech.
Copy print.
Written on verso: From A.H. Denman, 800 Nat. Bank of Com. Bldg. Tacoma, Wash.
Copy print.
The immediate Meany family included Sara Elizabeth "Lizzie" Meany, née Ward (1865–1923), Edmond S. Meany (1862–1935), and their four children, Elizabeth Lois "Bessie" Meany (1890–1892), Thomas Mercer Meany (1892–1928), Margaret Younger, née Meany (1894–1945), and Edmond Stephen Meany, Jr. (1907–2002). Lizzie Ward married Edmond Meany in 1889, after the completion of his master's degree.
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Written on verso: [UW] Class of '85.
Photomontage uses item 1 for portrait of Edmond Meany, and item 41 for portrait of Sarah Elizabeth "Lizzie" Meany.
Copy print.
Dorothy and Mrs. Dickey do not show up in census rolls as boarders or family members of the Meanys, and were possibly neighbors or further relations.
Thomas Mercer Meany (b. 1892), sometimes just known as "Mercer," was Lizzie and Edmond Meany's second child and the first to live to adulthood.
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Copy prints.
Copy print.
Copy print.
Elizabeth Lois "Bessie" Meany was the firstborn child of Edmond Meany and Sarah Elizabeth "Lizzie" Meany, who died two years after her birth in 1892.
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Shows Smith Tower and probably Pier 54 or Pier 53.
Possibly Edmond Meany, Jr., who would have been at least 19 at the time of the photo.
Written on verso: Prof E. S. Meany's residence - Brooklyn District, Seattle. Mrs. Meany, Margaret, Mercer.
Written on verso: Aunt Lizzie.
Shows John Muir second from left.
From unverified legacy documentation: Botanist [professor] and agriculturalist.
From unverified legacy documentation: founder of Friday Harbor.
Whitworth was a Presbyterian minister and educator in the Pacific Northwest. He founded Whitworth College.
Copy print.
Written on verso: Winlock W. Miller, apointed [sic] Regent of the University of Washington 1913 by Gov. Lister.
Ernest Lister (June 15, 1870–June 14, 1919) served as governor of Washington from 1913 to 1919.
Written on verso: [Enclosed in Josephine A. White to Edward [sic] S. Meany, Brookline, Mass.[achusetts].
Written on verso: Moffetts [Hot Spring?], Skamania County, Wash.
Written on verso: [Enclosed in Enos A. Mills to Edmond S. Meany, Longs Peak, Estes Park, Colorado, June 26, 1914.]
Probably Enos A. Mills.
Written on verso: To Edmond S. Meany.
From unverified legacy documentation: An indigenous man who was a source of tales from the Hoh and Quileute peoples
Copy print. See item 5.28 for original.
A National Historic Site since 1990, the Old-Man-House (or Oleman House in Chinook Jargon), was the largest winter longhouse in Washington, in the Suquamish winter village of dxʷsəq̓ʷəb (Clear Saltwater), which itself is near contemporary Suquamish, Washington. This photo shows one remaining piling from the original winter longhouse razed by Office of Indian Affairs Agent William DeShaw on orders by the federal government. Members of the Suquamish Tribe rebuilt the site in the years following, and it has been cared for continuously since time immemorial.
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See also item 3.50 for same subject.
Written on page of original: [...] daughter of Old Indian John of Old Man House.
See item 3.49 for original.
Copy print. See item 3.6 for original.
Copy print. See also item 5.30 for original.
Written on verso: Edmond S. Meany, Red Cloud [sic], and friends. See Fred R. Meyer to E. S. Meany, Buffalo, N.Y.
Written on verso: Home of Chief Moses near Nespilem [sic] Nespelem, Washington.
Written on verso: Decoration Day [Memorial Day].
Copy print.
Written on verso: To be abandoned for the fortifications.
Written on verso: Beginning of cedar-bark mat.
Written on verso: [...] used by Makah Indians of Neah Bay.
Written on verso: Save picture for Meany.
Written on verso: Canoe-bailer of cedar bark and handle bound with cherry-bark withers.
Written on verso: Dwamish [Duwamish] Indian Anchor.
Written on verso: Ancient Tribal Emblem at Ahousaht, North West Coast, Van.[couver] Isl. B. C.
Written on verso: Old Thunder Bird mask, found at [Lsu-quad-na?].
Written on verso: Nitinaht Village, Clo-oose, West Coast, Van[couver] Isl[and}. Mrs. Charles G. More, 1945
Written on verso: Nitinaht Village, Wy-ah, West Coast, Van[couver] Isl[and}. Mrs. Charles G. More, 1945
Printed on photo: No. 1013. General view of Wrangle [sic].
Copy print.
Copy print.
Printed on photo: No. 1010. Totem. Wrangle [sic].
Copy print.
Printed on photo: No. 1008. Bear Totem. Wrangle [sic].
Copy print.
Printed on photo: No. 1009. Crow Totems. Wrangle [sic].
Copy print.
Written on verso: J. P. Light with barges outside of St Michael on the Behring [sic] Sea on way to the Yukon River. W. S. Moore. [Ship]Master [(Captain)].
Written on verso: Smallpox patient. Deering Alaska. How do you like the looks of this? Andrew S.
Written on verso: Confluent variola [smallpox]. Note raw places where the pishelles [sic] blistered the skin and it slipped off in strips. Examine through a glass. Smallpox Case, Deeming, Alaska.
Written on verso: The dark spot or spots are places the skin sloughed off - leaving raw flesh. C.L.A. Examine with a glass.
Possibly a different subject than items 98 and 99, but still probably smallpox.
Written on verso: From a rare Smithsonian Publication.
Printed on image: Aleutian mummies in the wrappers. No. 17480
Written on verso: From a rare Smithsonian Publication.
Printed on Image: Aleutian mummy unwrapped. No. 17479. The Heliotype Printing Co., Boston
Written on verso: The only house left standing during the Nez Perce war- on Salmon River Road, White Bear Idaho.
Copy print. See PH484 Edward S. Curtis photograph and ephemera collection, item AB4 for original.
Written on verso of item 107: Chief Joseph's tipis.
Probably Nespelem.
Written on verso of item 112: Chief Joseph's abandonded barn built by U.S. Gov't.
See also items 4.1–4.5.
Copy prints.
Written on verso of item 119: Chief Joseph's old Ictas House.
Copy print.
From unverified legacy documentation: Ada Stillwell was the daughter of Barnett and Dema Stillwell, teacher and housekeeper for the school at Nespelem on the Coleville reservation.
From unverified legacy documentation: Ada Stillwell was the daughter of Barnett and Dema Stillwell, teacher and housekeeper for the school at Nespelem on the Coleville reservation.
Written on verso: Kitsap County.
The burial in fact took place in Snohomish County, on the Tulalip Indian Reservation near the neighborhood of Priest Point. Edmond Meany, Jr. opened the memorial event of about a thousand attendees with a bugle performance, while Edmond Meany (Sr.) led the first address, pictured here.
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There were at least four other speakers at the event interpreted by translator Charles Alexis (Suquamish), including Little Joe (Suquamish), Snoqualmie Jim (Snoqualmie), Henry Quyeenah (Lummi), and George Alexander (Skagit). Other notable attendees include Skookum George (Tulalip), a nephew of Patkanim, and Jack George (Tulalip), the grandson of Snookum George.
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The Washington Historical Quarterly records Chief Patkanim's daughter, Sophie, as an event attendee; she may be the older woman pictured in item 132.
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Written on verso: Best home among the fox farmers.
Written on verso: Fox-farmer Lind with samples of his harvest.
There are two islands called "Fox Island," but neither look onto Prince William Sound as the photo description for item 136 implies. The location for these photographs is still probably somewhere near the Prince William Sound.
Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System, for
Written on verso: Lake Moye, Southern Selkirks, B.C.
Written on verso: Marion Lake (elevation 10,000), Middle Fork of King's River Canon [sic], California.
Written on verso: Kearsarge Pinnacles & Lakes from Summit of Kearsarge Pass (12000') King's River Canon [sic], California
Written below photograph: after sunset from our house. Christmas Greetings from Edward T. Parsons and Marian R[Randall] Parsons.
From unverified legacy documentation: Parsons was a Mountaineer residing in California.
Written on verso: from [US Army] Chaplain C.C. [(Cephas Caleb)] Bateman 28 Inf[antry], Vancouver 12 IX 01.
Written on verso: First Christian Service in the English tongue on our coast. First book of common prayer in our country - one of the first recorded Missionary Prayers on our continent. Solideo [sic] Sit Semper Gloria [(May glory always be to God alone)]. Presented to golden gate park at the opening of the mid-winter fair, Jan. 1st 1894 as a memorial of the service held off the shore of Drake's Bay, about St. John Baptist's Day, June 24th Anno Domini 1579 by Francis Fletcher, First of the Church England, Chaplain of Sir Francis Drake, Chronicler of the Service. // Photographs presented to me by Mrs. Jennie Illingworth of my history class, U. of W., 1904. They were taken by her father George L. Sickels.
257 and 2587 are framed slightly differently.
The statue represents the Battle of Lexington during the Revolutionary War.
Written on verso: The Alamo, Cradle of Texas Liberty, San Antonio, Texas. Please return to: Chamber of Commerce, San Antonio, Texas. Acknowledged 15, VII, '23.
From attached material: The Sacred Alamo stands in the very heart of the city of San Antonio. It was erected in 1718 by the Fransiscan Monks and was originally the chapel of the Mission San Antonio de Valero. It was within the grey stone walls of the quaint old Chapel March 6, 1836, that Davy Crockett, James Bowie, William Barrett Travis, and one hundred eighty unnamed heroes gave their lives in defense of Texas Liberty, when they made their stand against [Spanish General] Santa Anna and his four thousand Mexicans. Pilgrimages have been made to this Mission since its erection as a church and fort, and no San Antonian is too busy to explain to the visitor the events which transpired about The Alamo, under the Seven Flags which have triumphantly waved above its sacred portal.
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Written on the drawing: Puget's Sound, North West Coast of North America. Established by the Hudson's Bay Co: 1833. Surrendered to the United States Gov't, 1870 and purchased by E.H. [(Edward Huggins)], Esq, Nov. 1872.
Written on verso: From an old drawing, p.121.
Printed on item 159: The RMLI [(Royal Marines Light Infantry)] Camp at San Juan Island - December 1866.
Written on verso of item 159: Pig War Days.
Written on verso: at American Camp.
Written on verso: Note cemetery. Original Bakery of Old Fort Dalles. The Dalles, Oregon. Built in the '50's [1850's] Enclosed in Arthur F. Cook to Edmond Meany, The Dalles, Oregon, Feb 15, 1921.
Probably appeared in the Dalles Chronicle, a local newspaper.
Shows marker additions to photo surface probably added by photographer.
Printed on item: Middle Block House, Built in 1855, Cascades, Columbia River, Wash.
Written on verso: From print loaned by E. E. Bernstein, 1928
Copy print.
Shows road marker text, "Military Wagon Road [illeg.] Captain John Mullan 1830-1909 Cross Highway Here Pyramid Erected by Cheney Post No. 72 American Legion Assisted by History Department State Normal School Tablet Placed by Wash. State Historical Society. 1925.
Written on verso: Mullan Road monument on the state highway between Spangle and Cheney, erected 1925.
Written on verso: Last of Hudson Bay apple trees at Vancouver, Wash. Dee Clark.
Written on photo: Fort Walla Walla in 1857.
Copy print.
Tear beginning on bottom left corner of photograph continuing downward for 3". Photo in two pieces.
Written below photograph: Old block House on Marcus flat.
Written on photograph: Hudson Baylor
Written on verso: Rocky Point. Scene of Prof. O. B. Johnson's summer camps of students in 1880's. Return to Edmond S, Meany,
From unverified legacy documentation: O. B. Johnson, 1848-1917, was a professor of Natural Sciences at the University of Washington.
Written on front: Greetings from The McElroys, over.
Typed on verso: The cedar siding on this house was cut in a little water-powered mills at Seatco (now Buco) on the Skookumchuck River in Thurston County. It was brought to Olympia on wagons where it was surfaced. The split cedar shingles originally put on the house (with cut nails) are in perfect condition after 56 years. The doors, which are painted and grained, and the sash are of California sugar pine and were brought by sailing vessel from San Francisco where they were made. The cedar blinds were made at Tumwater, Wash[ington. Four generations of McElroys have lived here. The small boy in the picture is Harry, F. McElroy Strong whose Great-grandfather, Thornton F. McElroy built the house in 1870
Autographed on photo: Professor Edmond S. Meany with Best Regards from {Raul Jammeson?].
Possibly Edmond S. Meany.
From associated material of negative: [Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition] New York Building.
Possibly in vicinity of Denny Hall.
Shows text on sign, "Department of the Interior - U.S. Bureau of Mines. Mine Rescue Training Station".
Designed by architects Bebb & Gould and built in 1901, it was originally the University's power plant before being taken over for use in engineering in 1905.
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The current Meany Hall replaced the earlier iteration of the building with the same name which was damaged in the 1965 Olympia Earthquake. Both buildings have been and continue to be centers for arts education at the University of Washington.
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Built in 1904, the Chimes Tower was originally a water tower for pumping water from the lake. The chimes consisted of 12 bells, donated by Col. A.J. Blethen, Seattle Times publisher. They were enclosed in the tower in 1914. The tower burned down in 1949.
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Shows infrastructure on 19th Ave and 20th Ave, the undeveloped eastern portion of University District, and the edge of Laurelhurst.
19th Ave and 20th Ave are contemporary 19th Ave NE and 20th Ave NE, respectively. E 45th St is contemporary NE 45th St.
Shows Jacobsen Observatory and Administration Building (Denny Hall).
Possibly taken from the university water tank which lied north of the Jacobsen Observatory
University Boulevard is contemporary 17th Ave NE. E 45th St is contemporary NE 45th St.
Written on verso: Temporary Islands in Union Bay, Lake Washington.
Possibly Broken Island.
From unverified legacy documentation: The house was razed in 1907.
Shows sign announcing "Furnished Rooms" posted on porch. Spelger & Hurlbut Hardware store visible in the block behind the home.
Iron Mountain is on the Olympic Peninsula in Jefferson County, Washington, on land that is now managed by Olympic National Park. Mount Rainier was one of the United States' first National Parks, and encompasses land in Pierce and Lewis Counties, Washington. The Mountaineers visited both Mount Rainier and Iron Mountain frequently.
A. H. Denman was a photographer and attorney active in the Tacoma branch of the Mountaineers.
Stamped on verso: C. P. Fordyce, Grand Island, Nebraska
Written on verso: C. P. Fordyce, Grand Island, Nebraska.
Written on verso: C. P. Fordyce, Grand Island, Nebraska
Probably Mount Rainier.
Written on verso: [see H. B. Hinman to Edmond S. Meany, Everett, Washington].
Possibly grave site.
Sign shows text, "Camp of the Clouds, Named Aug. 12, 1886, by Charles E. Keho, Charles A. Billings, George N. Talcott, of Olympia, - Wash".
Written on verso: Cha. A. Billings, G. N. [(George Noyes)] Talcott, Olympia, Wash.[ington].
From unverified legacy documentation: Hazard Stevens and P.B. Van Trump were the first documented climbers to ascend Mt. Rainier.
Written on verso: Peak Success (Mt. Rainier) and Kautz glacier as seen from "Van Trump point."
Item 216 probably shows Carbon Glacier.
Written on Verso: Summerland Camp.
Written on verso: Edmond S. Meany at Glacier Park, Mountaineers' Park.
Written on verso of item 228: owing to having duplicated no. 44 in my book I send you both so that you will get the one you ordered, M.F.
Written on verso of item 227: For Prof. Meany, Thank you. L. E. L.
The following vegetation is probably pictured in the
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Written on verso: See E. L. Bickford to E. S. Meany, Napa, California October 3, 1919, Edmond S. Meany Papers.
From unverified legacy documentation: Allen C. Mason was an attorney and developer in Tacoma, Washington.
Written on verso: Allen C. Mason to Edmond S. Meany, Tacoma, Washington.
Written on verso: [Enclosed in Allen C. Mason to Edmond S. Meany, Tacoma.]
Written on verso: The lakelet [sic] just outside of Summerland.
Written below photograph: Prof. Meany.
Probably Mount Rainier.
Written on verso: "Mother Mountain" from Carbon River.
See also PH0106 Edmond S. Meany papers for correspondence with A.H. Denman.
Item 207 shows inscription, "George E. Wright, 1867 -1923, Citizen Mountaineer, Friend, Climbed here on his last visit to the hills. The memorial placed by the Mountaineers.".
From unverified legacy documentation: Hazard Stevens and P.B. Van Trump were the first documented climbers to ascend Mt. Rainier.
Written on verso: From Alma D, Wagen, 616 North K Street, Tacoma.
Typed on card: The Forty-Eight Anniversary Climb of Mount Rainier, 1870 - August 17th - 1918.
Autographed on card: Compliments of Hazard Stevens.
From unverified legacy documentation: Philemon Beecher Van Trump (known as P. B. Van Trump; December 18, 1838 – December 27, 1916), Washington. He is best known for the first documented ascent of Mount Rainier in 1870.
This sub-series includes studio portraits by photographers other than Edmond S. Meany. Some subjects have a known association with the Meany family; others included have no known association.
Written on verso: University of Washington.
From unverified legacy documentation: Hester Ward Mercer was the wife of settler Thomas Mercer.
From unverified legacy documention: Daughter of Dallis B. Ward.
Written on verso if item 278: E.M. Hills, Chicago.
Shows a range of subjects, including young children, adults, and older people.
Written on verso: Pierre von Babo ([nor air?]).
Shows primarily adults and older people.
Written on verso: Oct. 24th, 1875. Complements of I.L.J.
From unverified legacy documentation: Captain Charles H. Willoughby was a sea captain and Indian Affairs agent in Washington state.
Written on verso: Return O. L Willoughby, Prof. and Editor, Call. Port Townsend, Wa[shington].
Shows women as well as an older man.
From unverified legacy documentation: student [at] University of Washington.
Abbreviation "BS" referring to "Bachelor of Science," which implies this subject was possibly a student at the University of Washington.
From unverified legacy documentation: student [at] University of Washington.
Abbreviation "AB" referring to "Artium Baccalaureus," an older term for a Bachelor of Art degree, which implies this subject was possibly a student at the University of Washington.
Written on verso: A.[rtium]B.[accalaureus (Bachelor of Arts)] 1887.
Abbreviation "AB" referring to "Artium Baccalaureus," an older term for a Bachelor of Art degree, which implies this subject was possibly a student at the University of Washington.
From unverified legacy documentation: student [at] University of Washington.
From unverified legacy documentation: student [at] University of Washington.
From unverified legacy documentation: student [at] University of Washington.
Written on verso: Prof. Johnson.
Abbreviation "BS" referring to "Bachelor of Science," which implies this subject was possibly a student at the University of Washington.
From unverified legacy documentation: student [at] University of Washington class of 1885
From unverified legacy documentation: Died June 8, 1890.
Abbreviation "BS" referring to "Bachelor of Science," which implies this subject was possibly a student at the University of Washington.
Abbreviation "BS" referring to "Bachelor of Science," which implies this subject was possibly a student at the University of Washington.
Written on verso: d[ied] 1886.
Written on verso: P. B. R, 1887.
"1887" is likely a graduation year, and implies this subject was possibly a student at the University of Washington.
Abbreviation "AB" referring to "Artium Baccalaureus," an older term for a Bachelor of Art degree, which implies this subject was possibly a student at the University of Washington.
From unverified legacy documentation: student [at] University of Washington.
Written on verso: U of W Class of [18]'94.
Same subjects as item 322.
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