WAUAndrewsClarenceLeroyPHColl520.xml Preliminary Guide to the Clarence Leroy Andrews Photographs 1893-1929 Andrews (Clarence Leroy) Photographs Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries ©2008 (Last modified: 4/11/2018)
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-10-22. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries Clarence Leroy Andrews photographs Andrews, Clarence Leroy, 1862-1948 PH0520 3 boxes 67 photographic prints, 23 glass negatives, and 1 nitrate negative; 6.5" x 8.5" 1893-1929 Photographs of early Seattle, and views of Oregon and Alaska Collection materials are in English.

Clarence Leroy Andrews moved to Seattle in 1890, where he spent the next 7 years as a deputy in the King County auditor's office and also owned a small printing business. He left for Alaska in 1897 to join the Duke of Abruzzi's expedition to scale Mount Saint Elias on the Alaska-Canada border. It was on this trip that he learned the rudiments of photography. Although he planned to return to Seattle, he stopped briefly in Sitka and remained there for a year working for the Customs office. For more than a decade, beginning in 1898, he continued his work in Sitka, Skagway and Eagle before returning once again to Seattle. He made repeated trips to Alaska in the following years serving as newsman and photographer for the Juneau newspaper Empire and also as a surveyor for the School and Reindeer Service for the Alaska Bureau of Education. The later years of Andrew's life were devoted to writing about Alaska and the Eskimo and he contributed many articles on aspects of Alaskan life and culture to magazines and newspapers. He died in Oregon in 1948.

The collection includes images of early Seattle, and views of Oregon and Alaska from 1893 to 1929. (Some of the early images of Seattle may not have been Andrews' work, since his interest in photography, according to sources, did not become apparent until 1897.)

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 Seattle (Wash.)--Photographs Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington) Photographs Seattle Oregon Alaska Photographic prints Glass negatives Prints

25 contact prints made from original glass or nitrate negatives.

 Andrews [1]: Seattle waterfront, showing the Pacific Coast Steamship Dock, Pier B and the Columbia and Puget Sound R.R. Dock, Pier C, with L.C. Smith Building in background 1915 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews [2]: Seattle waterfront 1915 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews [3]: Seattle from King County Courthouse at 7th Avenue and Terrace, view west towards waterfront 1917 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews [4]: Denny regrade, Seattle undated PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews [5]: Ship at Seattle coal bunkers 1896 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews [6]: Mrs. Bagley and Mrs. Carr on Mrs. Bagley's 91st birthday May 8, 1910 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews [7]: The old Monitor Monterey 1895 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews [8]: Railroad yards, Seattle, showing King Street station (nitrate negative) PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews [9]: Two Tlingit men wearing Chilkat blanket and robe, ceremonial hat and headdress, standing beside carved grease dish and holding raven rattle, Alaska approximately 1900-1923 PH0520 Box 1 1

NA2893

 Andrews [10]: Tlingit women in ceremonial dress, Alaska, circa 1912 (NA2892) PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews [11]: Tlingit men and boys in ceremonial dress, Hoonah, Alaska approximately 1912 PH0520 Box 1 1

NA2890

 Andrews [12]: Tlingit men in ceremonial dress with painted paddles, Alaska approximately 1912 PH0520 Box 1 1

NA2889

 Andrews [13]: Fremont from the lower slope of Capitol Hill approximately 1893 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews [14]: Fremont taken from Westlake Blvd 1893 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews [15]: Fremont Milling Co. and mill property in foreground approximately 1893 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews [16]: Laying cornerstone of the University of Washington 1894 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews 9: Athapascan woman and children, Yukon River, Alaska 1908 PH0520 Box 1 1

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 Andrews 549: Smith Cove and the Great Northern docks 1911 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews 550: Seattle from Kinnear Park, looking south 1911 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews 647: Denny Hall 1896 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews 650: Seattle from looking north from King County Courthouse at 7th and Terrace, St. James Cathedral in distance 1915 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews 651: Excavating Lake Washington Ship Canal 1913 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews 652: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition at night 1909 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews 653: The old Monitor Monterey 1894-1895 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews 654: Denny Hall under construction 1895 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews 659: Construction of Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, Lake Washington Ship Canal 1914 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews 704: Denny Hall 1896 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews 705: Pipe line on tide flats 1896 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews 706: Filling tide flats - first work, near site of the King Street depot 1896 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews 707: Seattle and the bay from King County Courthouse at 7th and Terrace, L.C. Smith Building to the left 1917 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews 708: Seattle looking northwest from the King County Courthouse at 7th Ave. and Terrace, Rainier-Grand Hotel to the right 1896 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews 709: The Meike Maru , first ship of Japanese line, on first trip 1896 PH0520 Box 1 1 Andrews 710: Territorial University of Washington PH0520 Box 1 1 6 black and white photographs of Seattle and Spokane including Spokane Falls (1911), and barracks/apartments on Madison St., Seattle (1940) PH0520 Box 1 2 8 black and white photographs of sites in Oregon approximately 1930s PH0520 Box 1 3

Fort Klamath, Bend, Jacksonville, Crater Lake, Kirbyville, cattle range in Morrow County

 23 black and white photographs of Alaska approximately 1911-1927 PH0520 Box 1 4

Includes King Island village (1917, 1927), Postman Henry Copple (1929), Graham Reach, Bally Hoo Mt. (1929), Wireless Station at Dutch Harbor (1929), N.A.C. Co. building at Dutch Harbor (1929), cabbage and potatoes at Kotzebue (1929), Snake River at Nome (1926), Mission Hospital at Nome (1927), Surf bathing at Nome (1927), Hauling walrus on ice (1925), Village of Knik (1911).

 Glass negatives Glass negatives PH0520 Box 2 Nitrate negatives Nitrate negatives PH0520 Box 3