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2004.43 Thompson, J. W. (John W.), d. 1978 J. W. Thompson photographs 1952-1959 1670 slides, including color transparencies and black and white negatives 35 mm 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 3a.3.10 Collection materials are in 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.

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

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J. W. Thompson photographs, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle

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.

Transferred from the Maryhill Museum of Art, October 4, 2004.

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.

A detailed inventory of the slides in available in the repository.

J.W. Thompson's photographs of Native Americans living east of the Cascades remain at the Maryhill Museum of Art.

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Chehalis Indians Chinook Indians Duwamish Indians Lummi Indians Makah Indians Quileute Indians Quinault Indians Swinomish Indians Suquamish Indians Tulalip Indians Yakama Indians Indian reservations--Washington (State) Indians of North America--Fishing--Washington (State) Indian baskets--Washington (State) Indians of North America--Boats--Washington (State) Dugout canoes--Washington (State) Photographs Washington (State) Native Americans

The following section contains a list of slides by tribe or nation, arranged alphabetically.

Chehalis 1952-1959 22 slides

2008.43.1193-.1214

 Chinook 1952-1959 19 slides

2004-43.1167-.1185

 Duwamish 1952-1959 7 slides

2004.43.1186-1192

 Lummi 1952-1959 506 slides

2004.43.661-1166

 Makah 1952-1959 423 slides

2004.43.232-654

 Quileute 1952-1959 131 slides

2004.43.1270-1283, 1285-1300, 1325-1425

 Quileute; Makah 1952-1959 26 slides

2004.43.1284, 1301-1324

 Quinault 1952-1959 228 slides

2004.43.1-28, 32-231

 Suquamish 1952-1959 6 slides

2004.43.655-656, 1265-1266, 1268-1269

 Swinomish 1952-1959 244 slides

2004.43.1426-1479, 1481-1670

 Tulalip 1952-1959 51 slides

2004.43.1215-1264, 1267

 Yakima (now Yakama) 1952-1959 3 slides

2004.43.29-31

 No tribe identified 1952-1959 5 slides

2004.43.657-660, 1480