WAUDayKennethPHColl550.xml Guide to the Kenneth Day photographs Day (Kenneth) photographs Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries 2025

Allen Library BOX 352900 Seattle, Washington 98195-2900 Business Number: 206-543-1929 speccoll@uw.edu http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/

[2025, September, Tracy J Nishimoto]: Bella Durgin updated line break inventory

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-09-30. Description is written in: English, Latin script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries Kenneth Day photographs Day, Kenneth W. (Kenneth Walter), 1916-1987 PH0550 4.75 cubic feet 20 boxes approximately 1938-1982 Art and documentary photographs of Seattle and the Eastside, and other Washington State locales, approximately 1938-1982 English .

Kenneth Day was a native of Seattle who grew up in the Fremont area. He enlisted in the Army after the outbreak of World War II and was taken prisoner by the Japanese in the Philippines. He spent three and one half years in prison camps. Returning to Seattle after his release in September 1945, he married Lola Sehorn and moved to the town of Clyde Hill, east of Lake Washington, in 1946. He served as its town marshall for 14 years and retired from the position of chief investigator for the King County Public Defender's Office in 1976. An amateur photographer, Day took both art and documentary photographs of Seattle and the Eastside. Day also contributed a semi-weekly column, "Inside Strait," to the Bellevue Journal American from 1966-1987. He married his second wife, Clara Oman, in 1979.

Donated by Roger Day, 1997.

Collection is open to the public. Request at UW

Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Art and documentary photographs of Seattle and the Eastside, and other Washington State locales, circa 1938-1982.

The photographs were relocated from the Kenneth Day Papers, Accession No. 5081 in the repository, in 1997.

Kenneth W. Day papers (MSS Coll 5801)

Series 1: Photographs Air Power PH0550 Box 1 1 And No Play 1960 PH0550 Box 1 2 Apple Valley PH0550 Box 1 3 Application of Force PH0550 Box 1 4 Art Critic 1962 PH0550 Box 1 5 Autumn Pattern PH0550 Box 1 6 Barns approximately 1972 PH0550 Box 1 7 Basic Design PH0550 Box 1 8 Big Wheels 1960 PH0550 Box 1 9 But Only God 1959 PH0550 Box 1 10 Card Game PH0550 Box 1 11 Cattails PH0550 Box 1 12 Center Jump post-1966 PH0550 Box 1 13 Closing Time PH0550 Box 1 14 Come to the Fair mid-1960s PH0550 Box 1 15 Concentricity PH0550 Box 1 16 A Country Sketch approximately 1967 PH0550 Box 1 17 Crash Program PH0550 Box 1 18 The Cynic approximately 1962 PH0550 Box 1 19 Decisions, Decisions 1960 PH0550 Box 1 20 Detained PH0550 Box 1 21 Dinner Time PH0550 Box 1 22 Dockside PH0550 Box 1 23 Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate PH0550 Box 1 24 Downtown approximately 1967 PH0550 Box 1 25 Edison Monument 1961 PH0550 Box 2 1 Either End Up PH0550 Box 2 2 Fantasy Forest PH0550 Box 2 3 Fifth Avenue 1967 PH0550 Box 2 4 Free Speech 1938 PH0550 Box 2 5 Garden Jewels PH0550 Box 2 6 Gears PH0550 Box 2 7 Go Back Three Spaces PH0550 Box 2 8 Grace Notes PH0550 Box 2 9 Grandmother's House PH0550 Box 2 10 Guiding Light approximately 1967 PH0550 Box 2 11 Hall of Learning PH0550 Box 2 12 Halls of Learning PH0550 Box 2 13 Hand of Man PH0550 Box 2 14 Hay Hook 1962 PH0550 Box 2 15 Hay Ropes 1962 PH0550 Box 2 16 Hot Hat 1961 PH0550 Box 2 17 I Remember Winter PH0550 Box 2 18 Ides of March 1946 PH0550 Box 2 19 If Winter Comes Can Spring Be Far Behind? PH0550 Box 2 20 Illusion PH0550 Box 2 21 Imagine! PH0550 Box 2 22 Idustry PH0550 Box 2 23 Kwan Yen PH0550 Box 2 24 Leschi PH0550 Box 3 1 Let There Be Peace approximately 1970 PH0550 Box 3 2 Market Staircase PH0550 Box 3 3 A Matter of Time 1961 PH0550 Box 3 4 Moon River PH0550 Box 3 5 Mosaic approximately 1970 PH0550 Box 3 6 The Mountain Beckons approximately 1964 PH0550 Box 3 7 No Bread Today 1960 PH0550 Box 3 8 November Nocturne 1959 PH0550 Box 3 9 Pixie Palettes PH0550 Box 3 10 Positive Identification 1962? PH0550 Box 3 11 Poster Girl PH0550 Box 3 12 The Price is Right PH0550 Box 3 13 Profile 1964 PH0550 Box 3 14 Quiet Mommy PH0550 Box 3 15 Ready-Set-Go PH0550 Box 3 16 Reflections 1959 PH0550 Box 3 17 River, Stay 'Way from My Door PH0550 Box 3 18 Searching PH0550 Box 3 19 Shovel Runner 1959 PH0550 Box 3 20 Sidewalk Solomon 1939 PH0550 Box 3 21 Silver Maples PH0550 Box 3 22 Solstice 1960 PH0550 Box 3 23 The Spectators 1962 PH0550 Box 4 1 Spiral Segment PH0550 Box 4 2 Sprocket with Chair approximately 1963 PH0550 Box 4 3 Starboard Hook 1962 PH0550 Box 4 4 Sticks and Stones PH0550 Box 4 5 Street Scene PH0550 Box 4 6 Sunday on the Farm 1961 PH0550 Box 4 7 Suspense approximately 1967 PH0550 Box 4 8 Swamp Study 1962 PH0550 Box 4 9 Swingeroo PH0550 Box 4 10 The Swirling Sea PH0550 Box 4 11 Tavern PH0550 Box 4 12 3 1/2 and Pike PH0550 Box 4 13 This, Our City 1965 PH0550 Box 4 14 Tideland Tapestry 1961 PH0550 Box 4 15 Time at the River PH0550 Box 4 16 To Be Exact 1963 PH0550 Box 4 17 Tree PH0550 Box 4 18 View from the Terrace PH0550 Box 4 19 Vortex 1970 PH0550 Box 4 20 Waterfront PH0550 Box 4 21 We Lived on a Farm PH0550 Box 4 22 Weather Eye 1960 PH0550 Box 4 23 We're a Team 1963? PH0550 Box 5 1 Wham! Bam! Boom! 1961 PH0550 Box 5 2 Whammy approximately 1967 PH0550 Box 5 3 Which Way is Main Street PH0550 Box 5 4 White Caps PH0550 Box 5 5 Winter PH0550 Box 5 6 Winter Etching PH0550 Box 5 7 Winter Fog 1963 PH0550 Box 5 8 Woodshed Geometry early 1960s PH0550 Box 5 9 Worth It! 1959 PH0550 Box 5 10 Untitled: [Tree cross-sections, log ends, in snow] PH0550 Box 5 11 Untitled: [Pastiche of 5 black and white images] PH0550 Box 5 12 Untitled: [River scene, boaters silhouetted, low light] PH0550 Box 5 13 Untitled: [Military seaborne landing maneuver] PH0550 Box 5 14 Untitled: [Beach scene, Washington coast?] PH0550 Box 5 15 Untitled: [Stalks of grass in snow, 1962] PH0550 Box 5 16 Untitled: [Tree trunks in snow] PH0550 Box 5 17 Untitled: [Close up of ice ?] PH0550 Box 5 18 Untitled: [Ladder or exposed roof structure] PH0550 Box 5 19 Series 2: 35 mm Color Slides 149 color 35mm slides 1946-1964 PH0550 Box 6 1

Washington State: Crabapple Restaurant, Bellevue, 1947, Dry Falls, Ephrata Area, Grand Coulee Dam, La Push, Mt. Baker and Mt. Shuksan, Mountain loop (Monte Cristo/Darrington area), Seattle (Montlake area, 1946), Snohomish tulip beds, Snoqualmie Pass. Travel pictures: Byrne's resort @ Nimrod, Mt.; Blue Mts., Mt. Hood; Harrison Hot Springs, B.C.; Fraser River, B.C.; Victoria, B.C.; Mission area, chess match @ Canadian border; Yellowstone; Byrne and Grand Canyons; Idaho and California miscellaneous; flower studies, forest fires, Owen and Myrtle Sehom and home, Jim and Ruth Richardson (Miller Bay), family portraits, Day campaign for State representative (1954), home in Bellevue.

116 color 35mm slides May 1960-Oct. 1961 PH0550 Box 6 2

Washington State: Lake Washington waterfront?, Swans at Marymoor, Sacred Heart Church, Seattle?; Floating Bridge at night; Bellevue Square Pavilion; LaConner; Shelton Power Station; Lower Baker Dam; Space Needle and Coliseum under construction; Tokeland fishing vessels; Fraser River; Seattle skyline by night; Jupiter Falls.

160 color 35mm slides Oct. 1961-Oct. 1962 PH0550 Box 6 3

Washington State: Snoqualmie Falls campsite; Walking M. Ranch; Mt. Baker; Log cabin near Marysville; York farm near Redmond; Chehalis power station insulators; Wenatchee Ohme Gardens; Century 21 Exposition; Puyallup Western Washington Fair; Yakima Fair; Houghton Park, Lake Washington; Longview; Marymoor. Misc: Bird and animal studies; Waterfront/maritime/Wedding celebration.

227 color 35mm slides Oct. 1962-March 1964 PH0550 Box 7 4

Washington State: Century 21 Exposition; Stevens Pass and Tye River; Mt. Rainier; Lewis River; UW Arboretum. Misc: Cats; Nature studies; Williamsburg, Va.; Military naval vessels and aircraft .

189 color 35mm slides March 1964-April 1966 PH0550 Box 7 5

Washington State: UW campus; Lake Washington waterfront; Downtown Seattle alleys; Intersection 4th/Pike; Snohomish River flooding (1965); Pike Place Market & environs.; Seattle street scenes; Bike racers at Pt. Defiance, Tacoma; Lilliwaup Beach, Wa.; Kalaloch Beach; Hoh Rain Forest; Lake Union. Misc: Crater Lake, Ore.; Oregon Coast; Victoria, B.C.; Nature studies; Farm animal studies.

158 color 35mm slides May 1966-March 1970 PH0550 Box 7 6

Washington State: UW Arboretum; Seattle Center; Volunteer Park; Woodland Park Zoo; Barn at Kosmos; Shilshole Bay Marina; Seattle skyline; Leschi District; Yarrow sunset. Misc: Family celebration; Nature studies; Volkswagen "Beetles"; Shriner parade; women in mini-skirts in parade; McCrory's cabin at Silver Creek.

301 color 35mm slides March 1969-June 1975 PH0550 Box 8 7

Washington State: Seascapes near Pt. Grenville and Moclips; Boats at Leschi; Construction of Business Center Bldg, Bellevue?; Portage Bay. Misc: Shriner parade (1969); Nature studies; City studies; Monterey Peninsula, Ca.; Ken Day on television for Bellevue Camera Club; Inside Passage to Alaska via M.V. Malaspina (Alaska State ferry); Hawaii; family shots.

123 color 35mm slides 1978-1982 PH0550 Box 8 8

Washington State: Northwest Trek wildlife park; Westport; Nooksack Falls; Filleting fish at Deer Lake. Misc: Family shots in Hawaii; Machias, Maine; Brattleboro, Vt.; Nature studies; Glacier National Park; Campbell River, B.C.; Depoe Bay, Ore.; Crater Lake, Ore.; Lassen Volcanic National Park; Yosemite National Park; Mt. Shasta.

100 color 35mm slides PH0550 Box 8 9

"JCOC" tour, Summer 1963 (reunion of WWII Japanese prisoners of war?); U.S.S. Forrestal in Chesapeake Bay, Naval-air exercises, helicopters; Camp Lejeune, N.C., assault landing exercises; Fort Benning, Georgia combat exercises; Eglin AFB, displays of aircraft and weapons-Pentagon.

209 color 35mm slides 1960-1970 PH0550 Box 8 10

Nature studies, portrait of Lola Day, Seattle waterfront, Boats of Leschi, Seattle skyline.

66 color 35mm slides approximately 1963-1972 PH0550 Box 9 11

Apparently an image bank of duplicate shots which were used to create Kenneth Day's compositional studies. Gulls, branches, leaves, sunsets, tree trunks, clouds, waves, flowers and fungi, aerial views of Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams, Yakima ranch, Puget Sound beaches, Stevens Pass, Ohme gardens (Wenatchee), Seattle Art Museum sculpture and water tower, Sea-Tac airport, Longview mill, Tacoma mill.

34 color 35mm slides PH0550 Box 9 12

"Diazo"-Color and textural studies of images: plant pistils, Seattle skyline with Space Needle, birds, clowns, barns, sailboat rigging, faces of women, sunrise. structural details of old farm buildings, three title slides including one cartoon of "the world's worst photographer (Day?).

33 color 35mm slides 1975-1976 PH0550 Box 9 13

"Mulch Garden"-garden at Day home in Bellevue.

33 color 35mm slides approximately 1961-1968 PH0550 Box 9 14

"Owen Sehorn had a farm"-portraits of Owen and Myrtle Sehorn, images of buildings and animals on their farm, many snowscapes.

30 color 35mm slides approximately 1963-1970 PH0550 Box 10 15

"Salon entries"-Space Needle, studies of flowers, skies, water, (some using filters).

30 color 35mm slides mid 1960s PH0550 Box 10 16

"Composite Show #1, Spotlight #1"-Sunsets, landscapes, rural scenes, birds, Lake Sammamish, Mt. Hood, waterfront (Seattle?), Pacific Science Center arches, Seattle Center.

28 color 35mm slides 1960-1969 PH0550 Box 10 17

"Spotlight #2"-Studies using filters, masking, light effects, sunsets and landscapes, Pacific Science Center arches.

59 color 35mm slides mid 1960s PH0550 Box 10 18

"Spotlight #3"-(Dual projector show?) [Left]: Studies using various kinds of mounting paper (napkin, cigarette paper, lens tissue), texture studies, Kodalith studies, flowers, sunsets, waterfront, Space Needle. [Right]: Texture and Kodalith studies, crystals, Pacific Science Center arches, sunsets, lakeshore compositions.

30 color 35mm slides approximately 1962-1978 PH0550 Box 10 19

"Spotlights #4"-Plant and animal studies, sunsets, vignetted portrait of Day family, Seattle skyline, streets, Space Needle, Arboretum bridge, lakefront images, Sea-Tac Airport.

43 color 35mm slides approximately 1963-1978 PH0550 Box 10 20

Nature studies, sailboats at sunset, architectural details, Ken Day on tractor, King Street station, Puget Sound and gulls, Seattle skyline, Ohme Gardens (Wenatchee).

27 color 35mm slides approximately 1964-1969 PH0550 Box 10 21

Title shot, "Camerama 65", plants, animals, clouds, sunsets, sunrises, rural scenes.

40 color 35mm slides approximately 1964-1972 PH0550 Box 10 22

Sailboats, urban scenes, Marymoor Park?, Seattle waterfront, views from Space Needle, night scene from Pioneer Square, UW dorms at night, 4th & Pike, Pike Place traffic, stairs at Pike Place Market, Capitol Hill graffiti.

30 color 35mm slides 1979 PH0550 Box 10 23

Architectural details, Lola Day, nature studies, rural scenes, urban scenes, stairs at Pike Place Market, sand at Moclips, fog, King Street Station, boats at Leschi, view from Space Needle, Ernest Hardware store at Bellevue Plaza.

30 color 35mm slides PH0550 Box 10 24

Mobile home at Woodcrest, North Cascades Highway, Ilwaco, Dungeness Spit, Waitsburg, Yellowstone National Park, Mt. Pleasant (Iowa).

Series 3: Negatives

1 1/2 x 1 1/16; 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 negatives. 2-493. (probably nitrate)

1-67 1938 PH0550 Box 11

Kenneth Day at work, Campus Radio Studios, various other workers.

27, 244 1939 PH0550 Box 11

Speaker at Washington and Occidental.

40 1938 PH0550 Box 11

Performers at Rialto Theater.

68-140 1938 PH0550 Box 11

Dallas, Texas.

143- 1938 PH0550 Box 11

Day family and friends, outing, etc.

166 1933? PH0550 Box 11

Aurora Bridge.

170 1933? PH0550 Box 11

Shanty village at Elliot Ave/Denny Way.

174 1933? PH0550 Box 11

34th and Fremont from Aurora Bridge.

211 1939 PH0550 Box 11

Crystal Hotel at 1st and Cedar. California Ink Co. Bldg at Western and Cedar.

220-221 1939 PH0550 Box 11

4th and Pike.

245 1939 PH0550 Box 11

Players at crap table.

Nos, 246 1939 PH0550 Box 11

Interior of Ah Fats gambling house at 209 1st Ave. S.

247-249, 254, 256 1939 PH0550 Box 11

Gambling.

252 1939 PH0550 Box 11

Hobo sleeping at Western and Denny.

255-275 1939 PH0550 Box 11

Hotels, rooms and taverns, general street scenes, downtown Seattle.

276-285 1939 PH0550 Box 11

At Sehorns', Machias, Wa.

286-302 1939 PH0550 Box 11

UW campus, houseboats, laundry's, Seattle bridge's S.S. Kalakala, street scenes, parades and gatherings, etc.

303-322 1939 PH0550 Box 11

Masonic picnic, Martha Lake.

324-328 PH0550 Box 11

Wedding.

329-347 1939 PH0550 Box 11

Misc, cafes, construction, Seattle.

350-572 1945 PH0550 Box 11

Day family and friends.

409-415 1945 PH0550 Box 11

Granite Falls.

438-444 1946 PH0550 Box 11

Fishermen at Juanita Bridge.

445-449 1946 PH0550 Box 11

University District.

476 PH0550 Box 11

Ferry at Fortuna Park

537-541 1947 PH0550 Box 12

Snoqualmie Falls.

597-602 1947 PH0550 Box 12

Victoria, B.C.

642- 1948 PH0550 Box 12

Radio station facilities, Wash. and Idaho.

663-665 1948 PH0550 Box 12

Bellevue.

668-733 1948 PH0550 Box 12

Utah, Columbia River, Idaho, Arizona, California.

931-932 1955 PH0550 Box 13

Lake Washington Floating Bridge.

942 1955 PH0550 Box 13

Sightseeing boat, Seattle harbor.

945-950 1955 PH0550 Box 13

Yellowstone National park, Idaho.

1254-1261 1960 PH0550 Box 13

Puyallup Fair.

1820-1848 1963 PH0550 Box 13

U.S.S. Forestal, military exercises.

1902-1914 1964 PH0550 Box 14

Princess Marguerite, seagulls.

1917-1918 1964 PH0550 Box 14

4th/Pike.

1958-1961 1964 PH0550 Box 14

Crater Lake, Ore.

2183-2184 1967 PH0550 Box 14

Mossy Rock Dam.

2192-2196 1967 PH0550 Box 14

Seattle street scenes.

2221-2252 1967 PH0550 Box 14

Puyallup Fair.

2808-2818 1971 PH0550 Box 15

Seattle scenes.

2826-2831 1971 PH0550 Box 15

Farm workers rally.

2835-2848 1971 PH0550 Box 15

Seattle views, Arts and Crafts Fair.

2871-2896 1971 PH0550 Box 15

Kenneth Day.

2903-2909 1971 PH0550 Box 15

San Francisco.

2911-2947 1971 PH0550 Box 15

Views from Smith Tower, Cascade Hotel collapse.

2948-2950 1971 PH0550 Box 15

Anti war rally.

2957-2975 1971 PH0550 Box 15

Greenlake Park, Woodland Park.

2998-2999 1973 PH0550 Box 15

Fremont street fair.

3092-3101 1975 PH0550 Box 15

Lake Union, Gas Works Park.

3102-3112 1975 PH0550 Box 15

Downtown Seattle scenes.

3205-3207 1982 PH0550 Box 15

Peace Pagoda at Bangor.

592-1569 1959-1972 PH0550 Box 16 1570-2056 1959-1972 PH0550 Box 17 2057-2578 1959-1972 PH0550 Box 18 2579-2986 1959-1972 PH0550 Box 19 2993-3140 1959-1972 PH0550 Box 20