WAUHafferVirnafilmsPHColl1270.xml Guide to the Virna Haffer Home Movies approximately 1925-1940 Haffer (Virna) Home Movies Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries © 2019 (Last modified: 1/31/2020)

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-02-27. Description is written in: Undetermined, Code for undetermined script script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries Virna Haffer home movies Haffer, Virna PH1270 6 film reels color, silent; 16mm approximately 1925-1940 Home movies of a Northwest artist and photographer Collection materials are in English.

Virna May Hansen was born in 1899 and raised in the anarchist-utopian community of Home, Washington. When she was ten a cameraman visiting the colony awakened her interest in photography and by age 15 she left school to apprentice with a commerical photographer in Tacoma. She married socialist and labor advocate, Paul Raymond Haffer. She started her career as a commercial portrait photographer in the early 1920s (where she photographed the Weyerhaeuser and Chihuly families). She also became a member of the Seattle Camera Club and exhibited her Pictorial photography around the world. By 1930, she was cited in the American Annual of Photography as "one of the most recognized pictorial photographers in America." While she concentrated on photography she also was a printmaker, painter, musician, sculptor, and published writer. She died in 1974.

Home movies created by photographer Virna Haffer and two Felix the Cat cartoon shorts.

Access restricted: The original films are not accessible due to preservation concerns. For terms of access, contact University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.

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Haffer's copyright transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Donor: Jean-Paul Simon, February 26, 2013.

Processed by Bronson Dowd, 2019.

Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington) Moving Image Collections (University of Washington) Moving Images Fine Arts Home Movies Home Movie 1 film reel (400 feet) : silent, color ; 16 mm 1939? PH1270 Reel 1 1

Scenes include Norman Randall hunting and fishing, people playing golf, a military rowing team, and views of an aquarium.

Home Movie 1 film reel (200 feet) : silent, color ; 16 mm 1939? PH1270 Reel 4 4

Scenes include a burning car, a horse race, views of mining equpiment, Norman Randall using surveying equpiment, artistically modified views of people's faces, including Haffer's, and a soap box derby race in Tacoma.

Home Movie 1 film reel (400 feet) : silent, color ; 16 mm 1940? PH1270 Reel 5 5

Scenes include a man operating machinery near a creek, views of mining equipment, views of Deception Pass Bridge, people swimming at a lake, a soap box derby in Tacoma, and a woman in a wedding dress.

Home Movie 1 film reel (400 feet) : silent, color ; 16 mm 1939? PH1270 Reel 6 6

Scenes include views of an island and a mountain range, people aboard the S.S. North Sea, a man in a deep sea diving suit, the transport of lumber, and views of mining equpiment.

Felix the Cat Felix Saves the Day 1 film reel (350 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16 mm 1922 PH1270 Reel 2 2

A cartoon short featuring Felix the Cat playing baseball.

A Felix the Cat cartoon short 1 film reel (400 feet) : silent, color ; 16 mm 1939? PH1270 Reel 3 3

A cartoon short featuring Felix the Cat.