Walter Shelley Phillips (1867-1940), also known as "El Comancho," was a self-educated and self-trained newspaper reporter, free-lance writer, author of numerous books, painter, illustrator, carver, photographer, naturalist, and geologist. In his own words: "I am first, last, and always, a Western man...I've always stood on my own hind legs, looked the world in the eye and told it to go to hell -- and am still doing it."
He was born March 3, 1867 in Fairbury, Illinois to Oliver H. Phillips and Eliza Jane Mcdowell Phillips. His family moved west, reaching Nebraska in 1969, and settling in Beatrice, Nebraska. According to his unpublished memoir, the family's homestead was within the Otoe tribe's hunting grounds, and Chief Arkeketa visited with the family regularly. Phillips played as a child with Arkeketa's children in the Otoe camp and by his accounting, was happier with that way of life than with going to school. He hunted buffalo, fished, attended ceremonies, and learned the Plains Indian sign language with which peoples of different Plains tribes communicated with each other. In Phillips' biographical notes within the collection he relates that in his early life he "went thro [sic] Grasshopper plague which came to Nebr. July 16 - 1874." He left school early and traveled across the West and Southwest on his own, meeting up with the Sioux (Lakota), Blackfeet, and Crow peoples as well as other tribes. He acquired the name "Lone Man" from the Sioux. He traveled through the Black Hills, the Rockies, and finally to Seattle in February 1888. He continued his travels, including through the American Southwest.
Phillips began writing about outdoor life in around 1887, including
pieces for
At some point during his career he worked for Louis Hill, president of the Great Northern Railroad; he spent more than a year with the Blackfoot tribe in the area that is now Glacier National Park to gather information for the Railroad's advertising department as the company built its line westward. Afterwards he performed a geologic and natural resources survey for the Great Northern from Glacier National Park to Seattle.
In 1904 he began
Arranged in 7 series.
Collection reflects the art work of W.S. Phillips, who was a photographer, illustrator and cartoonist, writer, sculptor and carver. Photograph albums created by Phillips document his mountaineering and camping trips in Washington State, including the Olympic Peninsula, other locations in the western United States, such as Montana and Wyoming, and other trips across the plains and prairies of Nebraska and in the eastern United States. When Phillips appears in the photographs, he is usually in the persona of El Comancho, the character he created for his Western stories and illustrations. Phillips' wife Rena also appears in the photographs, sometimes in the persona of a "lady hunter" or "lady fisherman." The drawings in the collection include finished projects meant for publication or display such as the Teepee Tales series of drawings and also Philips' sketches and studies of plants, animals and people. Phillips' fascination with American Indian cultures is reflected in his drawings, photographs and clay carvings in which he documents and depicts tribal gatherings, dances and art.
Photographs contained in the albums were usually numbered by W.S. Phillips, sometimes with a "P" prefix. Phillips' original numbering has been retained wherever evident. Some photographs in the collection were not numbered by Phillips. For these photographs, Special Collections has assigned an item number with an "X" prefix. Similarly, lantern slides, drawings, and carvings were assigned "L," "D," and "C" prefixes respectively.
Albums 1-4,10, 12-13, 15, 18, and 20-21 were not included with the donated collection.
Access may be restricted due to the fragile nature of the materials. Contact Special Collections for more information.
Status of creator's copyrights is unknown; restrictions may exist on copying, quotation, or publication. Users are responsible for researching copyright status before use.
Donor: Eldon E. Phillips (son of W.S. Phillips); 1964-1965.
Processed by Marion Brown, 2009; processing completed by Elizabeth Russell, 2016.
28 photographs not by W.S. Phillips were removed from the collection, 2015. 16 photographic postcards not by Phillips transferred to the Postcard Collection, 2016.
A copy of Phillips' book
Scenes of Mt. Constance in the Olympic Mountains, the area Phillips labeled Diablo Pass, climbers Phillips, Roll, Clark, and Griffin, and their camps on the trip. The album includes photos 193-253; photo 231 is missing. Phillips referrs to Diablo Pass, Diablo River and Diablo Canyon in the vicinity of Mount Constance; those names are no longer in use on maps, so it is unclear exactly where Phillips was. It is possible that he was in the vicinity of the North Fork of the Skokomish River.
196: Includes W.S. Phillips "El Comancho." 197: R.O. and Griff on rock.
196: Lantern slide in Box 14.
207: Image is reversed.
201: Ross and Griffin in snow field just below summit.
W. S. Phillips "El Comancho" at summit of pass looking NE toward river valley.
217: W.S. Phillips "El Comancho" in snow field. 218: image reversed.
221: Clark. 223: Griff, R.O. and Clark at summit of pass. 227: Roll and Griffin.
234: Dosewallips River ten miles from its mouth.
Scenes of a ranch along the shore, and trips in the Olympics. Olympic views include Copper River [Copper Creek], Dirty Face Ridge, and Gold Creek, all in the northwest corner of what is now Olympic National Park. The album includes photos 254-276 and 291-324.
These photographs are probably from the "Original Olympic trip" which are identified as "small plates" (smaller sized negatives).
291-292: Rena. 294: W.S. Phillips "El Comancho." 296: Two women Rena and Billy. 300: Rena registering Little River Summit on tree. 307, 309, 314: W.S. Phillips as "El Comancho."
Scenes in the mountains, including the Olympic Mountains, Washington and the Rockies in Montana in what is now Glacier National Park. The album includes photographs 277-290 (Olympics Original Trip and Quilcene Pass) and photographs 326-376 (Lincoln Peak, etc.). Photo 368 is not in the album.
Views of Lake Chelan, Chelan River, Stehekin River, Soap Lake, and Soap Lake Sanitorium in Washington State. Views of Hotel McDonald, Lake McDonald, and West Glacier, Montana. Views of Avalanche Peak and Citadel Peak, Colorado. The album includes photos 377-451.
The town of Belton is currently named West Glacier, Montana.
Cree Indians, mountain and river landscapes in what is now Glacier National Park, Montana, Blackfoot Indian ceremonies. The album includes photos 452-500. Photo 488 is missing.
There is enlargement of this photo.
From accompanying material: Lady of the Lake.
From accompanying material: John Munore family. Corner 2 Medicine Lake
People identified include: Little Dog (471-472), Mount Chief (472, 475-476), Crazy Horse (472, 480), Little Dog (473), Yellow Owl (478).
Photo 484: Solo grass dancer, possibly Blue Eyes.
Views of a woman (Rena) hunting, W.S. Phillips hunting in a marsh, and Phillips' duck boat. The album includes photos 501-514, 612-632, 635, 644 (photos 633-634, 636-643 are missing). See loose photos in next series for photographs assumed to have been removed from this album.
Photo 628: hand colored lantern slide in box 13.
Photo 631 has been cut out from album; about 3/4 of an inch remains.
Phillips identified this photograph as "The Alarm."
Written on verso: The view taken from top of old "portage" which has since been filled. It was a block or two south of the now Montlake canal. The Fisheries Building is at the approximate Lake Union end of that old waterway.
Written on verso: "Chuting the Shoots" Shooting the Chutes. El Comancho in canoe as it hits Lake Union from the log flume. This log flume once floated logs from Lake Washington to Lake Union to be boomed & rafted to Sawmills. Shooting the chute can only be done when gate is open between flume and old portage way which is now filled.
From related material: "Taking the catch aboard"
Written on back of photo: "Breaking Camp Lake Washington about 1904."
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Written on back of photo: Showing how to put up teepee - foot 14th Ave NE about 1903-1904
Written on back of photo: Teepee Camp Putting up Teepee foot 14th Ave NE 1903-1904 W.S. Phillips and Son Eldon S. Phillips.
W.S. Phillips as a child fishing, Phillips demonstating packing
for camping and how to wear an Indian blanket, Phillips and Rena camping in
Ravenna Creek Park area, Ballard and Seattle waterfront areas, Cheshiahud (also
known as Indian John) and his home, and the Steamer
This print is larger than the album size and was found in the collection.
Written on back of photo 680: "The writer as a kid, displays fish caught in the river that ran where Ravenna Park is now located."
Photos 793 and 794 are nearly identical, but have slight differences and different photographer numbers.
Written on verso of photo 793: Chief Chi-Siah-Ka or 'Indian John' as he was known making canoe. He is located at a site where the yacht club now exists or in very close vicinity.
Photos 795 and 798 are nearly identical, but have slight differences and different photographer numbers.
W.S. Phillips appears in photo 796.
Copy negative and copy print. There is no original print of negative of this photograph in the collection.
Views of Lake Union, Lookout Mountain, Skykomish, and Mount Index, Washington State; New York City; Niagara Falls. The album includes photos 804-810 and 863-916.
See photo 769
From accompanying note: Harry among the ferns.
Copy negative.
On verso: A river big enough to float a steamer-- roaring down from the mountain snows.
Includes views of ships, East Coast locations, San Francisco locations, and camping trip. Album includes photographs 917-1001c. Photos 954, 956-960, 962, 964-968, 973-977 are missing
918: log rafts in river.
Statue in photograph is probably the statue of Leonidas created for the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894.
James Abram Garfield Monument was created in 1884 to memorialize President Garfield, who died a few months after an assassination attempt by Charles J. Guiteau.
From accompanying material: Camp on Raging River with broken leg.
From accompanying material: Charles Foster and Roll are identified as the fishermen in the river in photo 986.
Includes photographs 835-977. Photos 863-953, 955, 958, 961, 963, 969-976 are missing.
From accompanying material: Smith is identified in photo 845 and Phillips is identified in photos 846-848 and 851-854. The man in the other views is not identified.
Copy photographs.
Copy photographs.
Copy photograph.
No number on print, but this is probably photograph 967.
Zintkala Nuni, or Lost Bird, was a survivor as an infant of the massacre of the Lakota at Wounded Knee in 1890. She was found by a rescue party and raised by a white couple. She later appeared in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and in vaudeville before her death in 1920.
Written on photo: A waterless river - The Platte - Neb '89.
Handpainted lantern slide available in box 13
Written on photo: June days along the Blue in Nebraska.
Written on photo: 2 hours sport on the old Blue.
Hand painted lantern slide available in box 13
Written on photo: Bluie's first deer - Wyo - 90
Written on photo: What'll she go pardner? An anxious moment in the prospectors life. Washington '97.
The album includes photographs of trees in the vicinity of Seattle, Coltsfoot and Devil's Club flowers and a woman (Wed) holding flowers. Includes photographs 1260-1309.
Written on verso: Coltsfoot (Petasites speciosa - Piper) Foo Kee - Jap.
From accompanying material: Wed and Foo Kee in west Seattle
Written on verso: Coltsfoot blossoms Petasites speciosus--Piper. Foo Kee-- Jap
Written on verso: devil's club Fatsiea horrida--Piper
Devil's Club is a shrub native to western North America.
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From accompanying material: Wed with bundle of Foo Kee leaves.
Written on verso: Giant Horsetail Rush (Equisetum Telmateia) T'suku Shinbo.
Written on verso: Salmon Berry Rubus Spectabilis
From accompanying materials: Wed with Fookee--cook plate.
Same image as lantern slide in box 14.
Views of a woman (Wed) with flowers, a sod house, houses at Alki Beach, trees and flowers, large Douglas fir log at Northern Pacific Railroad, various plant specimans, and a house and garden. The album includes photographs 1310-1406. Photograph 1373 is missing.
Written on verso: Madrona Arbutus menziesii-- piper.
Identified as crooked Laurel in accompanying material.
Written on verso: Urtica Lyallii Common nettle.
Written on verson: Pteridium aquilinum pubescens--piper.
Written on verso: Arctium Minus Burdock
Written on verso: Bobbed haired willow
Lantern slide for 1331 in box 14.
Written on verso: Old dead snag, Renton Road.
Written on verso: "Douglas fir- 11 foot 3" diameter"
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The surface of the photograph has been abraded and torn due to water damage.
The surface of the photograph has been abraded and torn due to water damage.
The surface of the photograph has been abraded and torn due to water damage.
Views of beavers, beaver dams, trees chewed by beaver and other evidence of beaver at Gold Creek in the Cascade Mountains. Album includes photographs 1407-1511. Photo 1508 is missing.
lantern slide in box 14
Prefix "X" assigned to distinguish these photographs from those numbered by Phillips. Most photographs in this series were probably made by Phillips but for some reason not numbered by him.
On verso: Mrs. Dutten Hoffer. Eldon + Laura in boat. Gary Carr + wife. Kenny [illegible] swimming. Mrs. Shadboldt and myself standing. Foot 14th N.E. in Lake Union.
With copy of printed drawing.
Caption: If I can meet you on the trail and say "hello!" "goodbye!" and leave you wishing we might meet again -- why I'll be satisfied! El Comancho.
All stamps signed: W.S. Phillips, Commercial Artist, 4091 Arcade Building, Seattle.
Same image with different exposure.
On verso: Jamestown, New York.
Note on verso suggests this photograph was used for W.S. Phillips' "The Way of the Free People" with the caption "Usually clear water running bank full."
Some of these lantern slides are made from images that appear in the Phillips' albums, and others do not appear as prints but match photographs described in Phillips' photograph log (in his address book). The remaining lantern slides in this series have been tentatively identified based on notes in Phillips' photograph log. They contain little or no identification or numbering. Several of the photographs are hand-colored.
This image also appears in Album 6. Unmounted lantern slide.
This image also appears in Album 11.
This image also appears in Album 11.
Photograph is probably part of the Salmon Fishing Set (Phillips 646-664). Photographic print of this image is not in collection.
This image also appears in Album 14.
Copy print of Phillips image on lantern slide. Original print not in collection.
Photographic print of this image is not in collection.
Also labeled 7-Prsnl. On Asahel Curtis lantern slide frame.
Description from Phillips' notes: Upper end - Blue Stem draw Neb.
Matches loose image P1221; image probably from Albums 20-21.
Also labeled 8-Prsnl. On Asahel Curtis lantern slide frame.
Matches loose image 1224; Image probably from Album 21 or 21.
Also labeled 11-Prsnl. On Asahel Curtis lantern slide frame.
No photographic print of this image in collection. Description in Phillips' address book "Appendix": Garbage dump - Carnation.
Labeled A47 on slide. Negatives with "A" prefixes are described in Phillips notes; however, A47 is not listed in his notes. From Phillips' notes, the A series appears to have been made during a trip to Montana, Wyoming and possibly South Dakota. Image does not appear elsewhere in collection.
Labeled 16-Prsnl. This image may be P1035 or P1037. Photographic print of this image is not in collection.
Labeled 89, but there is no Phillips' description for a negative with that number. Also labeled Graham Donahue 28-Prsnl. On Asahel Curtis lantern slide frame. Photographic print of this image is not in collection.
Labeled 13-Prsnl. Possibly P1210, for which Phillips' description is: Butte skyline Wyo. Photographic print of this image is not in collection.
Labeled 22-Prsnl. Possibly in Nebraska or Wyoming. Photographic print of this image is not in collection.
Photographic print of this image is not in collection.
Photographic print of this image is not in collection.
Labeled 10-Prsnl. On Asahel Curtis lantern slide frame.
Photographic print of this image is not in collection.
106 water color drawings. Numbered according to order found in box; may not reflect Phillips' original order.
2 cartoons.
138 pen and ink drawings on cards (cut copy) for engraver to copy. Arranged numerically by Teepee Tale number.
Phillips used this series of drawings in bas relief clay carvings. See Clay Art Carvings series.
11 drawings: Drawings no. 2-9, 11-12. Rough sketch of "Tragedy." Pencil on trace.
Includes: X31: "A New Trail in the Grass" [matches sketch 2]; X32: "The Parley" [matches sketch 3]; X33: "The Travelers" [matches sketch 3]; X34: "The Buffalo Run" [matches sketch 5]; X35: "The Sweat Lodge" [matches sketch 6]; X36: "Ambush" [matches sketch 7]; X37: "Horse-Stealing Raiders" [matches sketch 8]; X38: "Pescun" [matches sketch 9]; X39: "Traders" [matches sketch 11]; X40: "Buffalo Dance" [sketch 12]. X41 and X42:"Tragedy" and "The Smoke Signal." These 2 photographs document drawings that are not in the collection.
X43a: Image of the drawings "The Buffalo Run", "The Sweat Lodge," and "The Travelers" with captions and partial exhibit overview statement. X43b: A slightly different view of the content captured in X43a. X44: Image of the drawings "A New Trail in the Grass", "The Parley," and "Smoke Signals" with captions and other half of exhibit overview statement. X45: Image of the drawings "Traders", "Buffalo Dance," and "Tragedy" with captions. X46: Image of the drawings "Horse-Stealing Raiders", "Ambush," and "Peskun" with captions.
102 pages: 50 drawings in pen and water color and 50 pages of hand-written text. Complete list of Indian art topics is in collection case file.
51 slides. Slide of title page contains different image than in book.
8 drawings: Three versions of "Kin Dowan Ininaunpi ("The Singing Silence")" with draft on tracing paper (1900; poem published in New York, 1923; pen and ink and watercolor; pen and ink and pastel/crayon); finished and draft versions of poem to a stuffed buffalo head signed El Comancho, 1867-1937 (circa 1937); pen and ink and colored pencil on tracing paper; pencil on tracing paper); Undated pen and ink poem and illustration about Lone Man (Pen and ink illustration of man traveling toward sunset with the words "Tok-shah Yu-hi - Wah-kaga Niga" is on verso of drawing).
5 drawings: Print of cover illustration for
14 drawings: Man in loin cloth with arms outstretched in front
of totem poles, titled "Kloo-Kwallie, The Medicine Dance" (1892, pen and ink);
Man killing deer with hunting knife (1893, watercolor, pen and ink); Man
shooting deer (1893, watercolor); Sinking ship titled "Wreck of the W.K.
Merwin" (1893, watercolor, pen and ink) with caption: Wrecked in Puget Sound
Feb. '93); W.K. Merwin sinking in Puget Sound (1893, pen and ink); 2 watercolor
and pen and ink drawings of steamer
2 drawings: Mountain and reflection of mountain in water, with three people in canoe in foreground (1938, pen and ink); farmhouse surrounded by cottonwood trees (undated, pencil and pen and ink).
Sketches done by El Comancho on a wide variety of subjects.
30 drawings: 27 colored pencil drawings of American Indian men, most wearing headdresses; man wearing cowboy hat and long beard; woman in hat (undated, colored pencil); pen and ink drawing of mustachioed man smoking pipe (undated).
3 drawings: 2 studies of American Indian man's head (undated; pencil, pencil on trace); Sketch of man with long beard, possibly meant to be a trapper or mountain man (undated; pencil).
4 drawings: Sketch of cowboy, possible meant to be El Comancho (undated, colored pencil); Sketch of woman walking two small dogs (undated, colored pencil); Sketch of man in check suit (undated, colored pencil); Cowboy reclining on grassy hillside (undated, pen and ink).
25 drawings: 12 pencil and pen and ink "Gumboot Arizona" cartoon character sketches; 12 pen and ink "Corncob Caleb" cartoon sketches; 1 pen and ink cartoon of tall girl in kitchen captioned "She's a big help to her mother."
6 drawings: 4 designs for bookmarks (undated); El Comancho symbol in colored pencil (undated); Pencil sketch of Emerson Hough design of skull and rose "Life is short," drawn August 26, 1895, accompanied by Phillips' explanatory notes, written 1940 [Emerson Hough was a writer of Western stories].
12 drawings: 7 drawings of deer (1893, undated) in pen and ink, watercolor and pencil; 5 pen and ink drawings of bears (1924).
5 drawings: 2 colored pencil drawings of fighting buffalo pair (undated); buffalo studies in pen and ink on tracing paper (undated); pencil drawing of buffalo skull (1924) captioned "My old Buffalo skull sketched at Seattle. El Comancho"; 1 drawing of coyote titled "The gaunt spectre of the cattle country" (1892).
2 drawings titled: "Five Antelope Scurrying Away"; "Left to the Coyotes: The Fate of a Wounded Antelope."
2 drawings: 1 drawing of herons in flight (undated, pen and ink); 1 pen and ink drawing of ducks (undated).
3 drawings: Pencil sketch and completed crayon drawing of Canada goose in foreground, against marsh scene in three frames (undated); 1 sketch of heron (undated, pencil on tracing paper)
13 drawings: Pen and ink sketches of trout heads and trout
(circa 1895); pen and ink flounder studies (undated); pen and ink starfish
design; pen and ink sketches of different kinds of fish (1938); pen and ink
sketches of Rainbow Trout with notes on coloring by Phillips (undated); pen and
ink drawing of smallmouth bass (
4 drawings: Pencil and pen and ink sketches of fish (undated); Pen and ink and watercolor sketches of fish heads (1893); Crayon and pen and ink drawing of bass leaping toward fly fishing lure (July 27, 1907)
3 drawings: Pencil sketch of katydid captioned: K-T-Did; 2 pen and ink drawings of locusts, 1 dated 1925.
16 pages: Subjects included are Caddis fly, salt water clam, scorpion, centipede, mole, dogtoothed violet, cawas plant, arrowhead, lady slipper orchid, yellow jacket wasp, beaver, and wood ant.
6 drawings: 2 pen and ink sketches of tormentil plant, Glacier Park (1920); Drawing of Common Arrowhead (undated, pen and ink) with caption: Wapato - Common Arrowhead (Lat. Sagittaria latifolia); 3 drawings of leaves and branches (undated, pen and ink).
12 drawings: 1 colored pencil drawing of cottonwood tree at Rapid Creek, South Dakota (1939); Sketch in pencil on tracing paper and completed color pencil drawing of Anemone (wind flower) plant (May 10, 1939) with note by Phillips that plant was drawn from life in Rapid City, South Dakota; 1 drawing of wild violets and dodecatheon, common name "shooting star" (1939, colored pencil on tracing paper); 4 drafts and completed drawings of iris (1939, pencil and colored pencil on tracing paper); Sketch and completed drawing, probably of wild gladiolus (circa 1939, colored pencil on tracing paper); Branch of wild roses (circa 1939, colored pencil); Sketch of evergreen tree (undated, pencil on tracing paper).
11 drawings: Various sketches of people, animals and plants (14 sheets, undated, various media); Map of United States with drawn route from Seattle to New York (1923, pen and ink) with caption: 12,661 miles Seattle to N. York and return. July 7 to Nov. 11 1923.
6 drawings: Pencil and colored pencil.
Note on print, probably by Phillips: This is Charlie Russell, the cowboy artist (good portrait too).
Clippings of images from the
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
Broken in half.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
2 copies. One broken in half.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
There are two of these. One is thick terra-cotta, the other is talc rock.
Photograph of talc rock carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
Photograph of this carving appears in Clay Art Carvings album.
On verso: Temple carving Yucatan
On verso: Original carving on temple in Yucatan
On back: Copied from a temple carving in Yucatan
Written on bottom: Very poor cast copy of original which was carved in Red Juniper wood (so called "cedar").
This album appears to document W.S. Phillips struggles to get his carvings copyrighted.
Notes by Phillips on X48-X52, X55 indicate copyright for these pieces transferred to the Works Progress Administration in 1938.
These clay art pieces are not in the collection.
X47: Photograph of
10 pages: Pencil on tracing paper sketch labeled as tentative plan for plant, probably intended as small factory for Phillips' clay carvings (undated); 5 pages of sketches and written instructions for how to make clay carvings (undated); illustrated instructions for clay refining process and equipment, titled "Sheet 1" (undated, pen and ink on tracing paper); pen and ink illustrated instructions of 19 steps in clay carving process (undated); 2 pages of numbered figures for process to make label tags (undated, pencil; One set of figures drawn on paper printed with "W.S. Phillips Inventor" with space for the names of witnesses and attorney, possibly used for patent applications).
4 pages
Album regarding the making of Black Hills Colors with data concerning the raw materials and process of making the colors ready to use. Also includes some documentation of Phillip's clay art and his process when applying for copyright.
Addresses, index of the photograph series # 193-1630 (housed under the "o" tab), list of the 1926 League Lecture series (under the "k" tab)