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Thomas Prosch Indian photograph albums, approximately 1864-1912

Overview of the Collection

Collector
Prosch, Thomas Wickham, 1850-1915
Title
Thomas Prosch Indian photograph albums
Dates
approximately 1864-1912 (inclusive)
1880-1910 (bulk)
Quantity
123 black and white photographic prints in 2 albums
Collection Number
PH0018
Summary
Photographs of Washington and British Columbia Native Americans in two albums
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Access restricted. Original albums are not available to the public. Photocopies of the albums are available for viewing.

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Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Thomas Prosch was a journalist and civic booster who had a great love of history. Prosch focused much of his energy on recording and preserving the history of the region and on civic improvement. He spent time walking through the town of Seattle photographing and documenting its history. He assembled the photographs he made and collected from others into annotated albums depicting various topics--Seattle, Washington State, Indians. He also assembled a dictionary of Chinook trade jargon and an extensive private library of Northwest history materials. He was frequently asked to speak at historical events. Prosch and his wife died in a tragic automobile accident in 1915 when the car they were in went off the road and into the Duwamish River as they were returning from a meeting at the Washington State Historical Society.

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Content Description

Two albums of photographs depicting Washington and British Columbia Indians taken by a number of early photographers, including Dr. E.H. Latham, Henry Fair, S.G. Morse, Anders Wilse, E.S. Meany, Webster and Stevens, B.C. Collier and Theodore E. Peiser. Indian tribes represented include Columbia River Indians, Nez Perce, Yakama, Chelan, Clallum and Indians of Puget Sound in general. Also included are images of Chief Joseph, Chief Seattle and Angeline. Photos date from circa 1864 to 1912.

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Use of the Collection

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Restrictions on Use

Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.

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Administrative Information

Processing Note

Processed by Ashby Lee Collinson and Marion Brown, 2008

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

  • Album 1

    • Description: Columbia River Indian camp
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)
      Dates: July 1903
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-1
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Nez Perce Chief Joseph in ceremonial dress on painted horse
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: Before the Chief would pose for this picture, he exacted $10 from the artist.

      Dates: 1903
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-2
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Chief Joseph in war costume with rifle
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)
      Dates: July 4, 1903
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-3
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Chief Joseph near horses and tepees
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)
      Dates: Fall of 1903
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-4
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Chief Joseph's winter quarters tepee
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)
      Dates: 1903
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-5
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Nez Perce woman Check-a-ma-poo
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: Said to be the oldest of Nez Perces, 100 snows and more, in the Indian war of 1877, when Joseph led her tribesmen, she carried a gun, and fought like a man.

      Dates: 1903
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-6
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Young Nez Perce woman, Alice, daughter of Yellow Wolf
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)
      Dates: between 1900 and 1905
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-7
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Nez Perce camp and hills, Nespilem
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: Nez Perce War Parade.

      Dates: July, 4 1901
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-8
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Nez Perce camp, Nespilem, WA
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)
      Dates: July 4, 1901
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-9
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Tepees in Nez Perce camp, Nespelem, Washington
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)
      Dates: July 1903
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-10
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Crowd of Nez Perce gathered around medicine dancer
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: The great Doctor Two Moons is pictured as dancing on right of group.

      Dates: between 1900 and 1905
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-11
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Nez Perce man on horse with painted spots
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: The spots painted on shoulder and flank show where the balls struck the horse when it was shot from under the rider.

      Dates: between 1901 and 1903
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-12
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Three Nez Perce men near tepees
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)

      Walla-qua-mit, Chu-ya (Umatilla), Jim White (the younger brother of White Bird).

      Dates: between 1901 and 1903
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-13
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Nez Perce tepees in summer
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)
      Dates: between 1901 and 1903
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-14
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Nez Perce tepee in winter surrounded by snow
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)
      Dates: 1901?
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-15
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Nez Perce camp, Nespelem, Washington
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)
      Dates: July 4, 1903
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-16
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Nez Perce camp and hills at sunrise
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)
      Dates: July 1903
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-17
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Five Snake River Indian women and one man in front of tepee
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)
      Dates: between 1900 and 1905
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-18
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Quiotsa, dressed as a medicine man with sacred scarf
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)

      A brother of Chief Moses who was the head chief of the Yakamas for forty years.

      Dates: 1903?
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-19
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Sister and grandchild of Chief Moses
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)
      Dates: between 1900 and 1905
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-20
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Four grandchildren of Chief Moses
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)
      Dates: between 1900 and 1905
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-21
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Two views of a young woman, with "winged" dress and dress with shawl, carrying beaded bag
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: An Aristocrat among the Columbia Valley natives.

      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-22
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Two children in dresses
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)
      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-23a
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Pasco Sam, with his grandson and horse
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: A very noted Columbia River Indian.

      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-23b
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Two Columbia Valley Indian women in blankets
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)
      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-24
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Three Columbia Valley Indian girls
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)
      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-25
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Group of Columbia Valley Indians in front of tepee
      Edward H. Latham (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: Half-breed on the right hand.

      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-26
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Okanagan woman and baby
      Dr. Edward H. Latham (photographer)
      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-27
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: [no photo]
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-28
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Thrace, a Wenatchee girl
      B.C. Collier (photographer)
      Dates: between 1902 and 1912
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-29a
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: A Wenatchee mother with baby in cradle
      M.P. Spencer (photographer)
      Dates: 1902
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-29b
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Indian in Wenatchee jail who committed suicide

      Handwritten on photo: Sin, shame, suicide. Tragic end of an Indian in the Wenatchee in the Wenatchee jail, slow and deliberate self strangulation.

      Possibly a set up photo.

      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-30
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Using Indian fish trap in Tumwater Canyon, Wenatchee River to catch fish
      B.C. Collier (photographer)
      Dates: between 1902 and 1910
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-31
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Indian in camp, near Wenatchee, Washington
      B.C. Collier (photographer)
      Dates: between 1902 and 1910
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-32
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Chelan Indians
      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-33a-c
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Wapato John and wife, Julia Bob

      Handwritten on photo: The Wapato family is one of much local distinction. John is very old, blind and religious. He preaches every Sunday, usually twice or thrice."

      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-34a
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Julia Bob, member of a well-known Chelan family, and a man on horseback
      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-34b
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Camp in Wenatchee Valley
      B.C. Collier (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: Tents, wagons, all, indicate travelers moving and living comfortably.

      Dates: between 1902 and 1910
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-35
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Indian camp with two tepees
      Wilse (206) (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: Tenting on the old campground. Familiar scene in Eastern Washington.

      Dates: between 1897 and 1900
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-36
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Nez Perce Indians in temporary camp on the Lapwai Reservation, Idaho
      Henry Fair (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: Nez Perce Indians in temporary camp on the Lapwai Reservation. Idaho; poor, dirty and wretched, but not much more so than white campers.

      Dates: 1906?
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-37
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: A Lapwai Indian grandfather
      Henry Fair (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: A Lapwai grandfather surrounded by the works and marks of civilization-his clothing, the electric pole and barbed wire fence-he is an Indian still, too old and fixed to conform to all the conditions and ways of the white men he sees and knows.

      Dates: 1906?
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-38
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Lapwai or Nez Perce Indian woman

      Handwritten on photo: One of the older, more primitive, kind.

      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-39a
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Lapwai or Nez Perce Indian women

      Handwritten on photo: Two of the younger, more modern kind.

      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-39b
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Indian man on horseback
      Henry Fair (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: A present day Indian, in the prime of life, mounted on his favorite animal, the horse, in the land of his people, the Lapwai.

      Dates: 1906?
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-40
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Man giving the boy a lesson in horsemanship
      Henry Fair (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: Probably the same Indian [in previous photo], giving the boy a lesson in horsemanship, acquainting him with the country, and making of him a brave, worthy son of a worthy father.

      Dates: 1906?
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-41
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Two Indian women

      Handwritten on photo: Friends, possibly Sisters. Such as these, women of the Twentieth Century, are to be seen daily in the towns of Washington.

      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-42a
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Indian woman.

      Handwritten on photo: A young beauty.

      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-42b
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Native American family posed for studio picture in Western dress

      Handwritten on photo: An Indian family well advanced in industry, thrift, enlightenment. Compares favorably with many white families.

      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-43a
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Rev. Henry H. Spaulding

      Handwritten on photo: Who in 1838 came with Marcus Whitman and established to A.B.C.F.M. mission at Lapwai.

      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-43b
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Blank page
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-44
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: A Spokane Indian man
      Dates: between 1900 and 1908
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-45
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Yakama man and woman
      Dates: between 1900 and 1908
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-46a
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Young Yakama woman
      Dates: between 1900 and 1908
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-46b
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Harrison Sharrnute and family.
      Dates: between 1900 and 1908
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-47a
      Location: Album 1
    • Description: Indian Man
      Dates: between 1900 and 1908
      Container: Album 1, Item 1-47b
      Location: Album 1

  • Album 2

    • Description: Chief Seattle
      E.M. Sammis (photographer)

      Copied by Boyd and Braas

      Handwritten on photo: Seattle was large, strong and commanding in his youthful days, a warrior of success and fame. He was also an orator of ability. In his later years he was bent, feeble and poor. This photograph, by Sammis, is the only picture take of him in life.

      Dates: 1864
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-1
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Chief Seattle's grave, Indian cemetery, Port Madison Reservation
      Seattle Camera Club (photographer)
      Dates: May 30, 1901
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-2a
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Chief Seattle's grave with American flag
      Edmond S. Meany (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: Flag by Thomas W. Prosch

      Dates: May 30, 1903
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-2b
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Angeline, daughter of Chief Seattle
      Curtis (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: She was the daughter and last surviving child of Chief Seattle. Her maternal parent is not known, as her father had several wives. She also had at least two husbands, Her Indian name is reported to have been Kakiisilma, by Miss E.L. Denny. It is also said to have been Wewik. One of Seattle's wives is recorded in Catholic Church baptisms as Hewyik. Some white person called her Angeline; she accepted it, and the name thereafter became fixed, entirely displacing the original name, which was lost to the general public.

      Dates: 1896
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-3
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Angeline, daughter of Chief Seattle.
      Theodore Peiser (photographer)

      Photograph taken not long before her death.

      Dates: 1890
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-4
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Port Madison Indian Reservation seen from water
      Edmond S. Meany (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: At this place and in this "Old Man House" Seattle lived and ruled, and Angeline and his other children probably were born. Seattle died here, Angeline lived here later years in the town of Seattle.

      Dates: May 30, 1903
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-5a
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Last fragment in the historic Old Man House at Port Madison Reservation
      Edmond S. Meany (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: This house is said to have been 520 feet long, 60 feet wide, 15 feet high in front and 10 feet high in rear.

      Dates: May 30, 1903
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-5b
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Angeline's tombstone in Lakeview Cemetery, Seattle
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: No spot in this beautiful city of the dead is more sightly, more sought and more remarked.

      Dates: between 1897 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-6
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Indian canoe and steamer ship in Puget Sound
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: Indian canoe sailing up Puget Sound, while loaded sail ship is towed by steamer down Sound.

      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-7
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Puget Sound Indian woman weaving baskets
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)

      Seated on beach with three twined baskets; perhaps taken at West Seattle.

      Dates: 1899?
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-8
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Canoe and basket makers at work
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: He makes canoes and she makes baskets to sell to white people on the beach at West Seattle.

      Dates: 1899?
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-9
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Indian Village, Neah Bay, WA
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: The only commercial resource of these people seems to be fish.

      Dates: 1897
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-10
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Indian Village on beach, Washington

      Ozette village near Cape Alava; remains of ship Austria, wrecked in 1887, in foreground.

      Dates: 1880
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-11
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Four men in a canoe off Cannonball Island, near Flattery Rocks

      Cannonball Island, Ozette village, near Cape Alava; remains of ship Austria wrecked in 1887.

      Dates: 1880?
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-12
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: A fleet of Neah Bay whale hunting canoes
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)
      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-13
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Native whale hunters, Neah Bay, WA
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: The whale hunter's story.

      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-14
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Makah man who was called "Young Doctor", a canoe maker
      Samuel G. Morse (?) (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: This native son knows enough good fish stories to fill a book

      Dates: between 1894 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-15
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Makah mother and child, Neah Bay
      Samuel G. Morse (?) (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: Posing for a picture on the ocean coast of Washington

      Dates: between 1891 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-16
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Group of Makah in large sea-going canoe
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: Afloat on the Pacific; looking for seals, whales, halibut.

      Dates: 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-17
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Makah couple landing canoe with fish, Neah Bay
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: Fishing is a partnership or family matter on Puget Sound; he catches, she cleans, she sells, he takes the money.

      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-18
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Indian couple in front of dwellings
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: Real old settlers. Typical Indian habitations.

      Dates: between 1897 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-19
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Portrait of Blakely Jim
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: A well known Puget Sounder.

      Dates: between 1897 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-20
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Four children on beach (West Seattle?)
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: Sand fleas.

      Handwritten on photo: Fair specimens of the present Generation.

      Dates: 1899
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-21
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Temporary camp in North Seattle
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: Temporary Sojourners in Seattle in the 1880s.

      Dates: between 1880 and 1890
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-22
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Indian hut at Shilshole Bay
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)

      Home of "Indian Charley."

      Dates: between 1897 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-23
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Bodies wrapped in blankets on Hudson Bay

      Handwritten on photo: Camps of British Columbia Indians in 1880

      Dates: 1880
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-24a
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Man constructing a canoe frame

      Handwritten on photo: Camps of British Columbia Indians in 1880.

      Dates: 1880
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-24b
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Two Indians in tent

      Handwritten on photo: Camps of British Columbia Indians in 1880.

      Dates: 1880
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-24c
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Burial ground
      Dates: 1880
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-24d
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Totem pole
      Dates: 1880
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-24e
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Two girls in hop pickers camp in White River Valley
      Asahel Curtis (photographer)
      Dates: 1902
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-25a
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Lolota, son of Chief Zackuse
      Abbie Denny Lindsley (photographer)

      Lived at Lake Sammamish.

      Dates: 1890
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-25b
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Woman carrying burden basket on her back
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)
      Dates: between 1897 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-26
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: "Tasha" seated in a tent
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)
      Dates: between 1897 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-27
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Young Indian boy
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)
      Dates: 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-28
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Mother and baby
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: A proud Puget Sound mother and her exuberant, hilarious young one.

      Dates: 1900?
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-29
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: "Wahoolit" or "Yelm Jim" holding gun, seated next to human skull

      Handwritten on photo: "Wahoolit," or "Yelm Jim," a Nisqually Indian. He fought with Leschi in 1855-56. He killed Sluggia, Leschi's betrayer. Sentenced to be hung he was pardoned on the day set for execution.

      Dates: between 1880 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-30
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Elder mother and blind son in city

      Handwritten on photo: Old Betty and her blind son-to be seen in Olympia any day. She leads him with a stick, using the other as cane for herself.

      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-31
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Elder mother and blind son in city

      Same mother and son as previous image.

      Handwritten on photo: After standing for the picture taker, the bent-over old Indian woman and her unfortunate son moved on up the Olympia street to their humble place of abode.

      Dates: between 1890 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-32
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Family sitting around canoe on beach
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: Three generations: Grandmother, father and mother, two little ones. These are Puget Sound Indians.

      Dates: between 1897 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-33
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Family of Puget Sound Indians
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: This represents a comfortable, well-to-do, half civilized family of Puget Sound Indians. Few Indian families are there with five living children.

      Dates: between 1897 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-34
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Burial ground on Puget Sound
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: An old-style burial place, on Puget Sound. Such places were common in the 1860s. Another manner was to place the body in a small canoe, and then hoist and hide the same in the branches of a tree. The present day Indian buries his dead the manner of his white neighbors.

      Dates: between 1897 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-35
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Members of the Clallum tribe on Juan de Fuca Strait
      Anders B. Wilse (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: The man (and father) is giving his boys lessons in the arts of fishing and navigation. They are eager students. Soon they will be experts in both lines.

      Dates: between 1897 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-36
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Steve Wilson at a Seattle wharf
      Webster and Stevens (photographer)
      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-37a
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Prosch with arm around older Indian woman
      Edmond S. Meany (?) (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: No explanation of this scene is required.

      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-37b
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Indian town at Eagle Harbor
      Webster and Stevens (photographer)
      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-38
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Eagle Harbor view
      Webster and Stevens (photographer)
      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-39
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Group of Indians in front of general store
      Webster and Stevens (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: After a day in town these old Indians are on the Colman wharf, waiting for the steamer to take them back to Eagle Harbor.

      Left to right: Doctor Peter, Charlie Yukon, Mrs. Chief Jacob, Chief Jacob Wahalchu, unknown, Mary Adams.

      Dates: between 1900 and 1910
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-40
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Indian women selling crafts on a dock
      Webster and Stevens (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: Indian women exhibiting and offering for sale their skin, bead and other fancy work articles. These Indians are from the north of Washington [probably Tlingit].

      Dates: between 1904 and 1910
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-41
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Women cleaning fish on beach in canoe.
      Webster and Stevens (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: The women here appear to be doing the work and attending to the business. The men are at the saloon, maybe, the sign of which shows.

      Dates: between 1904 and 1910
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-42
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Women rowing in canoe

      Handwritten on photo: Here are more women at work. They have their rolls of matting and other articles for sale. They are not pleased at or with the photographer.

      Dates: between 1895 and 1910
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-43
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Woman with child strapped on her back
      Dates: between 1895 and 1910
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-44
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Two young Indian women seated

      Handwritten on photo: North Pacific Coast Indians: women and girls.

      Dates: between 1895 and 1910
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-45a
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Woman with four children

      Handwritten on photo: North Pacific Coast Indians: women and girls.

      Dates: between 1895 and 1910
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-45b
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Three boys on beach, fish drying in background
      Dates: between 1898 and 1910
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-46a
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Four boys seated

      One wears beaded mukluks, another plays the violin.

      Dates: between 1898 and 1910
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-46b
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Weisub and Neisub, Makah Indians, making baskets
      Samuel G. Morse (photographer)
      Dates: 1898?
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-47
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Okutter, a maker of wooden figures
      Samuel G. Morse (photographer)
      Dates: 1898?
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-48a
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Quidessa, a Makah woman
      Samuel G. Morse (photographer)

      Handwritten on photo: A native of the coast.

      Dates: between 1894 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-48b
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Yaddebassa, a Makah wood carver, totem or toy maker
      Samuel G. Morse (photographer)
      Dates: between 1894 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-49
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Kalappa, an Indian woman of Neah Bay
      Samuel G. Morse (photographer)
      Dates: between 1894 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-50
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Owatta, a Makah woman
      Samuel G. Morse (photographer)
      Dates: between 1894 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-51
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Aschadaback, or in English, Peter Brown, Chief of the Makah or Neah Bay Indians; also policeman or sheriff.
      Samuel G. Morse (photographer)
      Dates: between 1894 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-52
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Ketub, an Indian woman
      Samuel G. Morse (photographer)
      Dates: between 1894 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-53
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Neisub, the basketmaker of Neah Bay
      Samuel G. Morse (photographer)
      Dates: between 1894 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-54
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Yadaquit, Makah woman
      Samuel G. Morse (photographer)
      Dates: between 1894 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-55
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Wassobad, a Makah woman
      Samuel G. Morse (photographer)
      Dates: between 1894 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-56
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Neclel, Makah woman holding staff
      Samuel G. Morse (photographer)
      Dates: between 1894 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-57
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Hartsquee, Makah woman
      Samuel G. Morse (photographer)
      Dates: between 1894 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-58
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Yarlado, an Indian woman
      Samuel G. Morse (photographer)
      Dates: between 1894 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-59
      Location: Album 2
    • Description: Makah Indians: Atlu holding carved wooden staff, Barike standing and Cheeka sitting,
      Samuel G. Morse (photographer)
      Dates: between 1894 and 1900
      Container: Album 2, Item 2-60
      Location: Album 2


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