Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries
Frank Richardson Pierce photograph collection
Pierce, Frank Richardson, 1887-1966
PH0529
.98 cubic feet
2 boxes, 1 folder; 782 photographic prints; 198 negatives
1910-1950
Photographs of Pierce and his family and friends; Pierce's travels in Wasinogton, Alaska and California, including motorcycle trips; hunting and fishing; and Navy activities
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Frank Richardson Pierce (1887-1966) graduated from the University of Washington Law School. He worked for a short time in a mental institution, but was best known as an author who often wrote under the pen name "Seth Ranger." He began writing northwest articles for various motorcycle trade journals and later progressed to short story writing and was published in various periodicals and over fifty pulp magazines. He specialized in stories with Alaskan backgrounds having made fourteen trips to Alaska after story material.
Donated by Mrs. Frank Pierce, 2/23/1966.
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The collection consists of 781 black and white snapshots and photographic postcards of primarily unidentified material sorted into the following categories: F.R. Pierce portraits; family and friends; travel in Alaska, Washington and California; motorcycles and motorcycle trips taken by F.R. Pierce and others; hunting and fishing activities (unidentified locations); naval activities reflecting Pierce's time spent in the Navy; and miscellaneous. There are also 198 nitrate negatives which depict activities such as motorcycling and skiing, in addition to unidentified Alaska locations.
Frank Richardson Pierce papers (MSS Coll 0594)
Transferred to PH900.GER3: 1 photograph. Panoramic view of motorcycle club picnic, May 20, 1918
Snapshots and formal portraits of Frank Richardson Pierce.
44 black and white photographs
PH0529 Box 1
1
Families with children. Unidentified.
117 black and white photographs
PH0529 Box 1
2
Snapshots depicting family and friends engaging in various social activities, perhaps on trips or vacations.
Approximately 1910
PH0529 Box 1
3
Photographs of Southeast Alaska (probably Tlingit) totem poles including Shakes and Kadashan totems.
PH0529 Box 1
4
Native jeweler, Wrangell, Alaska. Photo by J.E. Worden.
4 black and white photographs
PH0529 Box 1
4
"Curly Smith's dog team." [Dogsled team, Alaska?]
1 black and white photograph
PH0529 Box 1
4
Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, undated. Photo by J.E. Worden.
1 black and white photograph
PH0529 Box 1
4
Scenic views in British Columbia including 4 of the Stikine River. Some photographed by J.E. Worden.
1 black and white photograph
PH0529 Box 1
4
Virginia Lake (Mill Lake), Alaska.
6 black and white photographs
PH0529 Box 1
4
Gillnetters under sail, Bristol Bay, Alaska.
1 black and white photograph
PH0529 Box 1
4
Alaska: scenes along the Yukon River (some in vicinity of Circle City) including Native Americans, homesteaders and offices of the North American Transportation and Trading Co. (circa 1909) ; Nakeen Cannery; Kodiak Trading company; death of "Soapy Smith," Rescue Camp on Middle Lake Skagway Trail (Hegg Photo); packtrain, Mount Snettles.
1 black and white photograph
PH0529 Box 1
5
Alaska: Kodiak, Mt. Edgecombe, scenes along the C. R. & N. W. Ry. , Perserverance Mine, Mt. McKinley, Chilkoot Pass (Hegg photo), Valdez, Skagway (1898), dogsleds, Eskimo kayaks and seal hunting, Alaska prospectors and backpackers, White Pass international boundary marker between Alaska and British Columbia.
53 photographs
PH0529 Box 1
6
Thwaites 2567: Greek laborers. Early days. Anchorage.
27 photographic postcards and 1 photograph
PH0529 Box 1
7
Thwaites 4060: After the storm. S.S. Northwestern in Alaskan waters.
PH0529 Box 1
7
Thwaites 3108: S.S. Mariposa. October 8, 1915.
PH0529 Box 1
7
Thwaites 1368: In Resurrection Bay. Seward, Alaska.
PH0529 Box 1
7
Washington, British Columbia, Colorado
PH0529 Box 1
8
W.P. & Y. Ry., Bennett, B.
1 photographic postcard
PH0529 Box 1
8
View of Ironton, Colorado
1 Black and white photograph
PH0529 Box 1
8
Seattle Public Library
February 2, 1916
1 Photographic postcard
PH0529 Box 1
8
Near Della Lake, interior Vancouver Island.
1 Photographic postcard
PH0529 Box 1
8
Forestry Building, AYP.
1 Photograph
PH0529 Box 1
8
On the Bothell Road. Boys on bicycles.
1 Photograph
PH0529 Box 1
8
Snoqualmie Falls.
1 Photograph
PH0529 Box 1
8
Death Valley and vicinity of a trip possibly taken by F.R. Pierce.
48 photographic postcards and photographs
PH0529 Box 1
9
South California State Hospital at Patton, California
1 photograph
PH0529 Box 1
9
Unidentified historic event, vicinity of Mazatlan, Mexico.
12 photographs
PH0529 Box 1
10
Unidentified locations
70 photographs
PH0529 Box 2
1
Motorcycles and motorcycle trips made by F.R. Pierce and friends. Localities and dates unknown.
128 photographs
PH0529 Box 2
2
Images of hunting and fishing including moose, bear, mountain goat, duck, and pheasant.
32 photographs
PH0529 Box 2
3
Images of naval vessels, submarines, and sailors, F.R. Pierce's time spent in the Navy.
31 photographs
PH0529 Box 2
4
Ships and airplanes
PH0529 Box 2
5
"Prince Rupert" stranded 1917, "S.S. Watson" landing at Valdez, "Princess May" wrecked 1910, riverboat "Swanee" restored at Dearborn, Michigan
5 photographic postcards
PH0529 Box 2
5
Unidentified boats and ships.
6 photographs
PH0529 Box 2
5
Boeing 314 Pan American Clipper
4 photographs
PH0529 Box 2
5
Miscellaneous
PH0529 Box 2
6
Work in quarry, 1940s airplane, bar scene, travelling landscape painter, Al Hostak automobile service station (1950s), Al Hostak (middleweight champion of the world), carte de visite photograph of wedding cake, erecting Monument to the 3000 pack mules killed during the Goldrush 1897-1898. White Pass Railroad, Alaska, miscellaneous animals/pets.
31 photographs
PH0529 Box 2
6
"Largest log entrance of nature in the world taken from a dream built by Loring A. Wood. Sutherlin, Oregon, 1932"
1 Photographic postcard
PH0529 Box 2
6
Negatives 1 - 100
PH0529 Box 3
Negatives 101 - 198
PH0529 Box 4