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William Stanley family photograph collection, approximately 1883-1950

Overview of the Collection

Collector

Stanley (Family : Stanley, William, 1839-1918)

Title

William Stanley family photograph collection

Dates

approximately 1883-1950 (inclusive)

Quantity

1,224 photographic prints

Collection Number

PH0345

Summary

Photographs of streetcars and public transportation in Seattle and elsewhere, family portraits, and Seattle and other views

Repository

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

The collection is open to the public.

Request at UW

Languages

English

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Biographical Note

William L. Stanley (1839-1918) was born in Ireland. Sarah Baker (1853-1910) was born in Iowa. William and Sarah married in 1869. Together they had 5 children: Maggie (1871), John Luther (1875), Sadie (1880), Ida (1885), Josephine (1893). Ida married George Cessna.

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Content Description

Collection contains: 536 mounted and unmounted black and white prints and snapshots of streetcars and public transportation in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Everett, Bellingham, Yakima, Bellingham, and British Columbia (1900-1950); miscellaneous images of Seattle views, parades, Yellowstone National Park, Eastern Canada, Great Britain, aerial views of France; Stanley family portraits; other identified and unidentified portraits. Also includes 5 albums with 688 black and white snapshots of Stanley family and home life (1900-1915), Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE)(1909), Navy life on board ship and shore leave in California (1920s-1940s). Also includes 15 black and white prints of the Stanley and Worden partnership in the Klondike (1897) and in Seattle (1901-1911).

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
Box 2: Seattle views, other locations
Box 3: Stanley and Worden photos, Stanley family portraits
Box 4: Stanley family portraits, miscellaneous portraits
Box 5: Albums
Boxes OS2, XD2, and XH3: Oversize photos

Custodial History

Although the Stanley family lived in California in 1900-1910, both William and Sarah are buried in Calvary Cemetary in Seattle, Washington.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. San Francisco. 8x10 black and white. (5)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/1
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Portland. 1 identified on verso as Portland Traction Co. 8x10 black and white. (10)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/2
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Portland. Some identified on verso as Oregon City Line, Portland Traction Co. 8x10 black and white. (9)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/3
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Portland. Identified as Oregon Electric Rwy. black and white snapshots. (16)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/4
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Bellingham. 1 identified as Bellingham Bay and British Columbia Hotel. 8x10 black and white. (2)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/5
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Everett. 8x10 black and white. (1)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/6
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Grays Harbor area. Grays Harbor Rwy and Light Co. 5x7 black and white. (1)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/7
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Seattle. 1 identified as Seattle Renton Rwy. Snapshots. (12)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/8
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Seattle. Snapshots. (10)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/9
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Seattle. 8x10 black and white. (8)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/10
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Seattle. 8x10 black and white. (10)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/11
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Seattle. 8x10 black and white. (10)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/12
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Seattle. Some identified as Seattle Traction Co. 8x10 black and white. (10)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/13
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Seattle. 1 identified as Seattle Central Rwy. 8x10 black and white. (10)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/14
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Seattle. 8x10 black and white. (10)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/15
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Seattle. 8x10 black and white. (10)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/16
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Seattle. Some identified as Madison Street Cable Rwy, Seattle Municipal Rwy. 8x10 black and white. (10)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/17
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Seattle. Some identified as Seattle Municipal Rwy, Rainier Valley Line. 8x10 black and white. (10)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/18
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Seattle. One identified as Lake Washington and Madrona Park. 8x10 black and white. (10)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/19
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Seattle. 8x10 black and white. (10)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/20
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Seattle. Some identified as Grant Street Electric Rwy Co., Seattle Everett Interurban. 8x10 and snapshots. (10)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/21
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Seattle. 1917 strike. 8x10 black and white. (3)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/22
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Yakima. One identified as Yakima Valley Transportation Co. 8x10 and 5x7 black and white. (3)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/23
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Vancouver, B.C. Some identified as British Columbia Electric Ry. Co. 8x10 and 5x7 black and white. (13)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/24
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Vancouver, B.C. Some identified as British Columbia Electric Ry. Co. 8x10 and 5x7 black and white. (10)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/25
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Victoria, B.C. Some identified as British Columbia Electric Ry. Co. 8x10 black and white. (7)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/26
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Toronto, Ontario. 8x10 black and white. (3)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/27
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Montreal, Ontario. 8x10 black and white. (8)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/28
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
- Description: Streetcars, public transportation. Unidentified.
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1/29-34
  
  Location: Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation
Box 2: Seattle Scenes
- Description: Public transportation and snowfalls of 1916, 1923. Snapshots. (25)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2/1
  
  Location: Box 2: Seattle Scenes
- Description: Public transportation and snowfalls of 1916, 1923. 8x10 black and white. Most are 8x10 copies of prints in 1. (27)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2/2
  
  Location: Box 2: Seattle Scenes
- Description: Views, public structures. 1883- 1957. 8x10 black and white. (11)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2/3
  
  Location: Box 2: Seattle Scenes
- Description: Shrine parade. 1936. 8x10 black and white. (5)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2/4
  
  Location: Box 2: Seattle Scenes
- Description: Patriotic parade. 1930s? 8x10 black and white. (8)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2/5
  
  Location: Box 2: Seattle Scenes
- Description: 1 image of Grand Coulee Dam, 2 unidentified images of NW scenes. 8x10 black and white. (3)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2/6
  
  Location: Box 2: Seattle Scenes
- Description: Yellowstone Nat. Park. 8x10 and snapshots. (3)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2/7
  
  Location: Box 2: Seattle Scenes
- Description: Eastern Canada: Montreal, Quebec, Niagara Falls, etc. circa 1939-1959? 8x10 black and white. (17)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2/8
  
  Location: Box 2: Seattle Scenes
- Description: British Isles (England and Scotland, circa 1943) 8x10 black and white. (5)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2/9
  
  Location: Box 2: Seattle Scenes
- Description: Portraits of Churchill and Bob Hope. 1943-44. 8x10 black and white. (4)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2/10
  
  Location: Box 2: Seattle Scenes
- Description: France: Paris and Rouen? aerial views. circa 1943- 44. 8x10 black and white. (12)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2/11
  
  Location: Box 2: Seattle Scenes
- Description: Miscellaneous images.
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2/12
  
  Location: Box 2: Seattle Scenes
Box 3: Stanley and Worden Photographs, Family Portraits

Items from box 3 have been moved to the following locations: folders 1-5 are now in box 4; items from folders 6, 7, and 11 are now in box 4. Items from folders 8, 9, 10, and 11 are now in box OS2.
- Description: Stanley and Worden Klondike expedition, 1897. "Cabins". (2)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3/1
  
  Location: Box 3: Stanley and Worden Photographs, Family Portraits
- Description: Stanley and Worden Klondike Expedition, 1897. "Boxers". (2)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3/2
  
  Location: Box 3: Stanley and Worden Photographs, Family Portraits
- Description: Stanley and Worden Klondike Expedition, 1897. "Miners". (2)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3/3
  
  Location: Box 3: Stanley and Worden Photographs, Family Portraits
- Description: Stanley and Worden Klondike Expedition, 1897. "Portraits" (3)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3/4
  
  Location: Box 3: Stanley and Worden Photographs, Family Portraits
- Description: Stanley and Worden Klondike Expedition, 1897. "Miners" and "Tivoli Gardens, staff and patrons?" (2)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3/5
  
  Location: Box 3: Stanley and Worden Photographs, Family Portraits
- Description: Party at Eldorado mine in the Klondike. Kinsey and Kinsey. [n.d.] Unmounted print. (1)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3/6
  
  Location: Box 3: Stanley and Worden Photographs, Family Portraits
- Description: Portrait of Stanley and Worden, engineers. 1898 (3)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3/7
  
  Location: Box 3: Stanley and Worden Photographs, Family Portraits
- Description: Stanley and Worden, engineers - project photos. Excavating hill in back of new Western Hotel, 1st Ave. S of Battery; Arcade Bldg. excavation (1901); E Fir between 11th Ave. and 12th Ave. (1903). (3)
  
  Container: Box folder:oversize OS2
  
  Location: Box 3: Stanley and Worden Photographs, Family Portraits
- Description: Group of men, circa 1900. (1)
  
  Container: Box folder:oversize OS2
  
  Location: Box 3: Stanley and Worden Photographs, Family Portraits
- Description: Stanley family portraits. (5)
  
  Container: Box folder:oversize OS2
  
  Location: Box 3: Stanley and Worden Photographs, Family Portraits
- Description: Portraits of Inga Robertson (2) and Jacqueline Stanley (1).
  
  Container: Box folder:oversize OS2
  
  Location: Box 3: Stanley and Worden Photographs, Family Portraits
Box 4: Stanley family portraits and other portraits
- Description: Stanley family portraits (19)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 4/1-3
  
  Location: Box 4: Stanley family portraits and other portraits
- Description: Stanley theatrical career. circa 1960s. (10)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 4/4
  
  Location: Box 4: Stanley family portraits and other portraits
- Description: Stanley family portraits (9)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 4/5-7
  
  Location: Box 4: Stanley family portraits and other portraits
- Description: Cessna family photos (2)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 4/8
  
  Location: Box 4: Stanley family portraits and other portraits
- Description: LaMonte family photos. (3)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 4/9
  
  Location: Box 4: Stanley family portraits and other portraits
- Description: Robertson family photos. (6)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 4/10
  
  Location: Box 4: Stanley family portraits and other portraits
- Description: Tenny family photos. (3)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 4/11
  
  Location: Box 4: Stanley family portraits and other portraits
- Description: Vognild family photos. (3)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 4/12
  
  Location: Box 4: Stanley family portraits and other portraits
- Description: Other portraits. (16)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 4/13-15
  
  Location: Box 4: Stanley family portraits and other portraits
- Description: Children's portraits (11)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 4/16-17
  
  Location: Box 4: Stanley family portraits and other portraits
- Description: Women's portraits. (6)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 4/18-19
  
  Location: Box 4: Stanley family portraits and other portraits
- Description: Male portraits (12)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 4/20-22
  
  Location: Box 4: Stanley family portraits and other portraits
- Description: Couple's portraits. (3)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 4/23
  
  Location: Box 4: Stanley family portraits and other portraits
- Description: Group portraits. (11)
  
  Container: Box/Folder 4/24
  
  Location: Box 4: Stanley family portraits and other portraits
Box 5: Albums
- Description: 68 snapshots depicting Navy life (on board ships and on shore), family, pets, homes, copy photographic prints of "girly" cartoons. circa 1920s-1930s?
  
  Container: Album 1
  
  Location: Box 5: Albums
- Description: 70 snapshots document Navy life in Southern California (San Diego?); shipboard life, ship equipment, vessels, shore excursions, friends, furloughs, mascots, etc. Also general snapshots of Mission Beach, San Diego and Southern California oil fields. circa 1920s-1930s. Tipped in: one loose black and white studio photograph of two African-American Navy men (unidentified) clasping hands.
  
  Container: Album 2
  
  Location: Box 5: Albums
- Description: (Album 3 - 116 snapshots; Album 4 - 188 snapshots) Mounted black and white snapshots. circa 1900-1915? Seattle family and neighborhood life, residences, sports and recreation, Puget Sound excursions.
  
  Container: Album 3-4
  
  Location: Box 5: Albums
- Description: 246 mounted black and white snapshots of Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE). 1909. [Stanley tipped in note: "I was there"] Family photos, recreation, outings.
  
  Container: Album 5
  
  Location: Box 5: Albums
Description: Oversize photographs
3 photographs of Stanley and Worden party at Eldorado, Klondike. 1 photograph of Stanley and Worden engineer project at 12th Ave, NE and NE 52nd. (1904) (Webster and Stevens 631).

Container: Box folder:oversize OS2
Description: Oversize photographs
1 Portrait of John Luther Stanley,Crayon photoprint; 1 Portrait of Kari (Kvalsjud) Stanley, Crayon photoprint.

Container: Box:oversize XD2
Description: Oversize photographs
- Portraits of Camille (William Stanley's brother) as a child. Mounted on one backing.
- Portraits of William Stanley as a child? Mounted on one backing.
Container: Box:oversize XH3

William Stanley family photograph collection, approximately 1883-1950

Table of Contents

Overview of the Collection

Biographical Note

Content Description

Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Administrative Information

Arrangement

Custodial History

Detailed Description of the Collection

Box 1: Streetcars and public transportation

Box 2: Seattle Scenes

Box 3: Stanley and Worden Photographs, Family Portraits

Box 4: Stanley family portraits and other portraits

Box 5: Albums

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