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Ruth Kirk photograph collection, approximately 1960s-1990s

Overview of the Collection

Photographer
Kirk, Ruth
Title
Ruth Kirk photograph collection
Dates
approximately 1960s-1990s (inclusive)
Quantity
44.39 cubic feet (46 boxes)
Collection Number
PH2012-011
Summary
Photographs, slides, papers, and drawings related to Ruth Kirk's books and films
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
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Languages
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Biographical Note

Ruth Eleanor Kirk was born Ruth Eleanor Kratz on May 7, 1925 in Los Angeles, California. She was an author of books on Northwest natural history and ethnography and a photographer. Her husband, Louis Gladwin Kirk Jr. (1921-1992), was a National Parks ranger. After the death of Mr. Kirk in 1992, Ruth moved to Olympia, Washington. She married her friend of 40 years, Dr. Richard D. Daugherty (1922-2014), an archeologist, and moved to Panorama, a retirement community in Lacey, Washington. Together, they combined their knowledge and skills in writing "Archaeology in Washington" which was published in 2007. She was a writer, photographer, and filmmaker on Pacific Northwest natural history and ethnography.

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Content Description

46 boxes containing slides, photographs; 1 roll containing drawings; related to her books and films. Photographs relate to Ruth Kirk's film and television projects.

Boxes 4 and 10 are missing from this collection.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The creators' literary rights have not been transferred to the University of Washington Libraries. Creator's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.

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Administrative Information

Preservation Note

Records are stored offsite; advance notice required for use

Acquisition Information

Donor: Ruth Kirk, March 7, 2007

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

  • Description: Washington
    35mm slides

    Seattle; Black Diamond; Everett; Tacoma; Olympia; Port Gamble; Port Townsend; Skagit tulips; Eatonville; Centralia; Kirkland

    Dates: 1970-1980s
    Container: Box/Folder 1/A
  • Description: Washington
    35mm slides

    San Juans; Bellingham; Ferndale; South Bend; Vancouver; Roche Harbor; Roslyn; Snoqualmie

    Dates: 1970-1980s
    Container: Box/Folder 1/B
  • Description: British Columbia
    35mm slides

    British Columbia Provincial Museum totem pole conservation, Queen Charlotte Islands 1981, Ninstints (Anthony Island), Kitlope (northern B.C.), 1977 reconnaissance Ninstints and Skedans

    Dates: 1970-1980s
    Container: Box/Folder 1/C
  • Description: Alaska
    35mm slides

    Yukon, Wrangell, Dawson, Sitka, Skagway, Ambler, Mt. McKinley, Glaciers, Kobuck River, oil modules

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 2/A
  • Description: Alaska
    35mm slides

    Yukon; Wrangell; Dawson; Skagway; Kilbuck Mountains

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 2/B
  • Description: Alaska - Nature
    35mm slides

    Glaciers; mountains; bays; coves; islands; flora

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 2/C
  • Description: Marmes Archeology Project; DuPont
    8x10 b/w prints; contact sheets; 35mm slides

    Marmes and Lind Coulee archaeological sites (Eastern WA); Gravel operation north of DuPont, Nisqually archaeology; Handwritten list of artifacts/remains found at Marmes - photos by Ruth Kirk, Harvey Rice.

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Washington Archaeology; Parks of the American West
    4x6 b/w prints, 35mm slides

    Archaeology and ecosystems in eastern Washington; archaeological dig site in Marmes, people (Ruth Kirk, Dr. Grover, Junius Bird, Dr. Richard Daugherty, James Chatters, Senator W. Magnuson); Bainbridge archeological dig, artifacts, people (Frank Kitamoto, Jerry, Ruth Kirk); Clouis archeological dig site in Wenatchee; Lind Coulee archeological dig site, artifacts/remains; Layser Cave and Judd Peak geographical features, Pinchot Forest; Silver Star Mountain archaeological site; Fort Nisqually, Fort Langley, Fort Clatsop, Fort Vancouver, Fort Vance, Chinook Lodge, Fraser River; Riffe Lake dig site, artifacts/remains, graphs of findings, people (Marsha Williams, Roy Wilson, Jim Hollycross, Mary Kiona, Jim Yore, Gene Wiggins); Minard archaeological dig site, artifacts/remains; Glacier National Park; Crater Lake, rock formations, plants; Cathlapotle buildings and nearby excavation; views of North Cascade Mountains; Puget Sound, Snake River, Palouse Falls Canyon, Petro/Pieto, Idaho, flora/fauna; McGregore Cave, Burr Cave, Seed Cave, Squirt Cave, Alpowa, Lyons Ferry, Strawberry Island, Celilu/Weir; Yellowstone National Park, Teton Glacier, Pindale Wyoming; Sequim Department of Transportation project, Port Blakely, Lyons Ferry Hatchery, Fishhook Island, Weiss dig site, Wanapum, Shoshones Falls, Death Valley, North Dakota, Bannock, Big Hole, Centennial Valley, St. Mary's Mission, Catalko Mission, Montana, Mitchells' Cavern, Hawaii Volcanic activity

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Olympic Peninsula
    35mm slides

    Peninsula coast scenery; Hoh Forest and fisheries, Quinault, Port Angeles, Elwna, Queets, landforms, people (Jim Jorgenson, Clarence, David Hudson, Bob Kennedy); Manis Mastodon archaeology in Sequim, people (Dr. Carl Gustafson, Dr. Richard Daugherty, Dr. Delbert); Hoko River archaeology, harvesting sea urchins, people (Tess Wilkinson, Flenniken); Makah Reservation, Makah Bay, Cape Flattery, Tatoosh Island, Hole in the Wall, making of a canoe, fishing, cook out, people (John Ides, Isabel Ides, Harold Ides); Harvesting wild plants/roots, people (H. Beraies); miscellaneous Olympic Peninsula; An archaeological dig site, stone weapons and tools found, demonstration of flint knapping (making stone tools); scanning electron microscope photos comparative sharpness obsidian blade and steel scalpel (obsidian is sharper); lithics class at WSU

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Ozette - Artifacts
    35mm slides

    Artifacts found in Ozette arcaeological dig including tools, weapons, loom and comb, masks baskets, bowls, canoe; selections for Dr. Daugherty's talk

    Dates: 1975
    Container: Box/Folder 7/A
  • Description: Ozette - MCRC, Aerial, Petroglyph molding
    35mm slides

    Ozette dig site and camp site; coast scenery; petroglyph; Makah Cultural and Research Center (MCRC) longhouse, exhibits and performances

    Dates: 1977-1980
    Container: Box/Folder 7/B
  • Description: Ozette
    35mm slides

    Ozette dig site and excavations; Makah elders at Ozette; helicopter; Neah Bay Lab; sunsets

    Dates: 1974-1983
    Container: Box/Folder 7/C
  • Description: Ozette - Oyehut-Minard
    35mm slides

    Cape Acaua archaeologic dig, artifacts, field lab at WSU, and camp

    Dates: 1966-1971
    Container: Box/Folder 7/D
  • Description: Northwest Archaeology; Makah and Ozette
    35mm slides

    Selection of slides for Ozette book? covering entire Ozette project - Ozette excavation; artifacts; Makah Day Celebration, dancing, canoe racing; petroglyph molding; Makah Museum; Ozette scenery; people (Conservator Jan Grosso, Makah Elder Meridith Parker, Makah Elder Helen Peterson, Makah Elder Harold Ides, Judy & Jeff Hottowe, Lida Colfax, Makah Museum director Greig Arnold)

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 7/E
  • Description: Pacific Northwest and Alaska
    35mm slides

    Forests; interior forest; aerials forested coast; old growth rain forest; understory; seedlings; nurse logs and mature colonnades; lichens, fern, skunk cabbage; wildlife (bears, bob cat, great horned owl, snake, mountain beaver, tree frog deer); clear-cut; controlled burn; wildfire; Mount Saint Helens eruption; blowdown; single log is full load for truck; totem pole serving as nurse log (Queen Charlottes, B.C.); rivers, creeks, ponds; fog. Northwest Coast: aerials; scenics; sunsets; sea lions; deer on beach; oil-soaked bird; shipwreck; beach patterns; drift logs; huge octopus (arms five feet long); urchins; anemones; sea stars; crabs; contemporary Makah and Quileute using forest resources; getting cattail and cedar bark for baskets, cedar logs for dugout canoes; 1964 beach hike with Justice William O. Douglas intended to stimulate preservation of the norther Olympic Peninsula coast. Alaska and British Columbia Katmai; Denali; Wrangle; glaciers and glacier research; Kitlope, B.C.; Historic preservation, Washington (mostly 1970s and 1980s): Metaline Falls; Port Gamble and Kirkland; Sehome; Fairhaven; Cedar Houses in Whatcom; San Juans; Port Townsend; Bellingham; Claquato Church; Tacoma; Yakima; Spokane; Walla-Walla; Ellensburg; Wenatchee; Tekoa; Waverly; Farmington; Cheny; Waterville; Sprague; Ritzville; Davenport; Seattle; Centralia; Kelso; Stanwood; Lopez Island; oyster cannery; farm sciences. British Columbia: Kitope; Bella Coola; 'Ksan; Skeen River; Alert Bay; Campbell River; Hesquiat archaeology. Alaska: Hoonah. British Columbia: Hunt family dance; James Sewid; Alice Paul; Tim Paul; Marina Tom (and many others interviewed for the book Tradition and Change on the Northwest Coast, or in Canada called, Wisdom of the Elders); canyons and mines in Texas; missions & forts in Montana

    Dates: 1970-1980s
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Northwest Archaeology
    8x10 b/w prints; 35mm slides

    Fort Nisqually archaeology excavations; 1833 and 1843 Nisqually forts; laboratory; artifacts; Nisqually ox road; Sequalichew Creek; homesteader descendent; historic photos; environment and habitat of surrounding area; other Hudson's Bay Company operations concurrent with Fort Nisqually, e.g. Fort Langley and Craighflower House in British Columbia; Point Defiance; Fort Vance; Fort Steilacoom; DuPont; Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River across from Portland; Richard D. Daugherty, archaeologist; Jeanne Welch, Washington State Historic Preservation Officer; photos and script for 18-minute video of Fort Nisqually archaeology project, created by Ruth and Louis Kirk, sponsored by Weyerhaeuser Northwest Landing development; Riffe Lake (Cowlitz) archaeology project; Medicine Creek; Tacoma Sewer project

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Ozette
    8x10 b/w prints

    Artifacts from Ozette excavation; Makah elders playing with gaming pieces found at Ozette; Makah Museum; preparing fish on beach; replication studies; Ozette excavation and field lab; helicopter on beach; petroglyphs; Dr. Richard Daugherty

    Dates: 1966-1970
    Container: Box/Folder 11/A
  • Description: Exploring Washington's Past
    8x10 b/w prints

    Fort Nisqually; Olympia; Mountains; old clapboard houses in rural Washington; petroglyphs; historical portraits; historic buildings; old logging, farming and mining industries

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 11/B
  • Description: Exploring Washington's Past
    8x10 b/w prints

    Historical photos of Washington including Centralia, Olympic Peninsula and Puget Sound

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 11/C
  • Description: Deserts
    8x10 b/w prints

    Sonoran Desert, CA & AZ; Snaketown Desert, AZ; desert hills around Tuscon, AZ; Anza Bonego state park, CA; stelactites in Lehman Caves, NV; Wheeler Peak, NV; mission at Tumacacori, AZ; Sonoyta, Mexico

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 11/D
  • Description: Desert Wildlife
    8x10 b/w prints

    Kitfoxes; road runner; gila monsters; tarantulas; hare; bob cat; fringe-toed lizard; vulture; ringtail cat; skunk; tortoise; mountain goat; bighorn ewes; wren nest; peccary; badger; coatis; porcupine; owl; kangaroo rat; gecko; quail; antalope ground squirrel; pack rat; centipede; snake; shrike; chuckawalla; pinacate beetle tracks; whitewing dove; pupfish; wild burros; horned lizards; scorpians

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 11/E
  • Description: Wildlife - Olympic Peninsula
    8x10 b/w prints

    Snakes; snails; squirrels; birds; bears; beavers; racoons; coyote; deer; elk; fish; frogs; goats; insects; marmots; mountain beavers; mouse; octopus; sea otters; pika; shrews; rabbits; seals; sea lions

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 12/A
  • Description: Mt. Ranier - mid 1950s
    8x10 b/w prints; contact sheet prints

    Skiing; petroglyphs; cabins; campground; forest; flowers; aerials of land at foot of mountain; Sylvan Chapel congregation gathered for sermon in forest; horesback riding; snow plow; helicopter; cooking and laundry and ranger station; streams and waterfalls; views of Mt. Ranier including locations such as Paradise Ice Caves, Wonderland Trail, Tatoosh Range, Paradise Glacier, Nisqually Glacier, Pinnacle Peak Trail, Summerland; people (Nettie Knowles, Pat Miller, unidentified others)

    Dates: 1950s
    Container: Box/Folder 12/B
  • Description: Wildlife: Birds
    8x10 b/w prints

    Seagulls; ducks; grouse; sandpipers; geese; canada jays; owls; pelicans; herons; cormerants; oil-soaked murre; other unidentified birds

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 12/C
  • Description: "Sniffles" Tame Deer (Mt. Rainier), Tame Bear Cub (Port Angeles)
    8x10 b/w prints; contact sheet prints

    Tame deer Sniffles with Louie Kirk in office; Sniffles drinking from water fountain; Sniffles in house with Ruth Kirk; Larry Dempsey with bear cub, burro, and goat; bottle feeding cub

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 12/D
  • Description: Europe, Olympic Peninsula, Mt. Rainier Ice Caves, Death Valley
    8x10 b/w prints; contact sheet prints; 35mm prints

    Mt. Ranier ice caves, mountain climbing; Olympic Peninsula forest, coast, camping, canoeing; Ruth and Louie Kirk in Death Valley, sand dunes, canyons, vehicles; Kirks' 1960s trip to Europe under auspices of the British Nature Conservancy, travel, people, villages, architecture, markets;

    Dates: 1960s
    Container: Box/Folder 12/E
  • Description: Olympic Peninsula
    8x10 b/w prints

    Forest; ocean; streams and waterfalls; plants; conoeing; cabin; tidepools; wildlife (marmot, bear, deer, birds, spider, mollusks, frog, goats)

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 12/F
  • Description: Prints & captions submitted to Seattle Times for use in their Sunday rotogravure section
    contact sheet prints; 4x5 b/w prints

    Whidbey Island Air Reserve; crabbing and Dungeness; Olympic National Park ranger/naturalist; trapping octopus, Dungeness; Port Angeles harbor; training burros and hikers' pack animals; Hoh Rain Forest Visitor Center, Olympic National Park; summer in the Olympics; Lake Ozette; Glacier Bay, Alaska; Rialto Beach; Marmots; Canoeing the Olympic Peninsula; trapping bears on commericial logging land

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 13/1
  • Description: Vancouver Island, B.C. and Olympic Peninsula
    contact sheet prints

    M.V. Lady Rose; Barkly Sound; west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia; skiing; Hurricane Ridge; Olympic National Park; Point of Arches; Smoking Salmon; salmon (stripping eggs, etc.); Dungeness Bay; Hoh River; brush picking; replacing plaque on shipwreck memorial; Wilderness Coast Trail, Olympic National Park; researchers on Blue Glacier

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 13/2
  • Description: Washington, British Columbia, Alaska
    contact sheet prints

    School nature trail at Fort Lewis; Nisqually Glacier, Mt. Ranier, measuring the ice; Summer sub-alpine meadows, Olympic Mountains and Mt. Ranier; Hoh Rain Forest, Olympic National Park; Hoh River salmon conservation; Garibaldy Park, British Columbia; Seattle Bird Clinic; Washington birds; Native dugout canoe races from the Hoh River mouth to Lake Quinalt; Klaloch, Olympic National Park; Katmai, Alaska; Minnie Peterson, Hoh Valley pioneer; Mt. McKinley, Alaska; Marmot research; Makah tribe renewing traditions; Student Conservation Association (SCA) at work in Queets Rain Forest, Olympic National Park; training to be a National Park ranger and naturalist

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 13/3
  • Description: Alaska, Japan, Arizona, British Columbia, Olympic National Park, Yellowstone National Park
    8x10 b/w prints

    Glaciers, Alaska; Japan; Filming kids, Kotzebo, Alaska; Organ Pipe Cactus National Park, Arizona; Olympic National Park rain forest; Tidepool (stars, anemone); Hair seal; Drawing, Nookta man; M.V. Tarahne, Atlin, British Columbia; Kayaking Lewis River, which drains from Shashone Lake, Yellowstone National Park

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 13/4
  • Description: Mount Rainier National Park
    8x10 b/w prints

    Mt. Ranier in the 1950s; hiking; climbing; ranger activities

    Dates: approximately 1950s
    Container: Box/Folder 13/5
  • Description: Mt. Rainier Paradise Ice Caves
    8x10 b/w prints

    Paradise Ice Caves, Mt. Ranier

    Dates: approximately mid 1950s
    Container: Box/Folder 13/6
  • Description: Wonderland Trail
    8x10 b/w prints

    Hiking and camping along the Wonderland Trail, Mt. Ranier; people (Ruth Kirk, Carolyn Miller, Carolyn Rogers)

    Dates: approximately mid 1950s
    Container: Box/Folder 13/7a
  • Description: Climbing Mt. Rainier
    8x10 b/w prints

    Mountain climbing; equipment; glaciers; crevasses; ice caves; people (Ruth Kirk; Louie Kirk; Dick McGowan, Chuck Mahoney, Jackie Lilienthal, Keith Miller, Bill Miller, Pat Miller, Dwight Hamilton, Ron Cox, John Hibben, Jack Melil)

    Dates: approximately mid 1950s
    Container: Box/Folder 13/7b
  • Description: Olympic Photos, etc.
    8x10 b/w prints

    Olympic National Park high country; Crater Lake and surrounding area; Eastern Washington

    Dates: approximately 1860s-1870s
    Container: Box/Folder 13/8
  • Description: The Pacific Coast
    8x10 b/w prints

    Oregon coast scenery; Rogue River; Tillamook Cheese; Sea Lion caves

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 13/9
  • Description: B.C. tourist attractions
    8x10 b/w prints

    Nature scenery; Princess Patricia steamer; seaplane; ferries; Hudson Bay Fort museum; wool clothing made by Native women

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 13/10
  • Description: Southwest National Parks
    8x10 b/w prints

    Thick Singer, Navajo medicine man; Navajo yeibachai dolls; Shonto area, Navajo Reservation; Anasazi ruins; Canyon de Chelly, Arizona; Inscription House ruins; Betaatkin ruins; Keet Seel, Navajo National Monument; Bridges National Monument; Pipespring National Monument; Yosemite; Rock formations; Theadore Roosevelt National Park of North Dakota; first annual pageant of Theadore Roosevelt's arrival in the Badlands

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 13/11
  • Description: Navajo Reservation & Misc. portraits
    8x10 b/w prints

    Canyon de Chelly scenery; Canyon de Chelly trading post; Family of seasonal National Park ranger Hubert Laughter (Mary Laughter and her children Nina Maria and Dwight David); Navajo National Monument; Saint Michael's Mission, Navajo Reservation; portraits (unidentified)

    Dates: 1950s
    Container: Box/Folder 13/12
  • Description: Establishing Alpine Lakes Wolderness Area
    Documents; Notes; Articles; Pamphlets

    Alpine Lakes Geology: Interview with seismologist Bob Bostrom; Alpine Lakes article draft and notes; Alpine Lakes Conservationist Interviews (Brock Evans, Pat Goldsworthy, Harvey Manning, John Warth, Dick Pargeter, Bill Asplund); Alpine Lakes Maps: Mean Annual Precipitation Map (Isohyetal), Snoqualmie National Forest, Wenatchee National Forest; Interview with Dr. Erna Gunther, Virginia Richmond's Lit. Research "Indians of the Alpine Lakes"; Alpine Lakes Geography of Occupance: Notes from Ekman on the Skykomish Valley, Literature citations, "Karyls Notes", Extract from "Spawn of Coaldust" 1955 Croslyn Community Study, Letter by Warren Avery on Mining & Irrigation, Interview with Mrs. Rena Stroud (Leavenworth, Chamber of Commerce), Interview with Oscar Renberg (Leavenworth "Hoch Alpen Verein"), Dwight Baker (Boeing Employees Alpine Society); Alpine Lakes Animals, Birds, Fish, etc.; Alpine Lakes Ecology: Interview with plant ecologist Professor Arthur Kruckeburg, Interview with ecologist Professor Gordon Orians; Alpine Lakes Management: Interview with Supervisor of Snoqualmie National Forest Don Campbell; Alps General Data: Primer, Statistics, Etc.; Alpine Lakes ALPS Materials: "A Primer for ALPS Members," "Critique of Estimated Economic Impact of Proposed Deferral of Commercial Timber Harvesting in Alpin Lakes Region"; "Undeveloped Areas 5,000 Acres and Larger" Snoqualmie National Forest booklet; "Alpine Lakes Land Use Alternatives" Snoqualmie & Wenatchee National Forests booklet

    Dates: 1970s
    Container: Box/Folder 13/13
  • Description: Death Valley
    8x10 b/w prints

    Clay cave houses in Shashone; Jack Norman, art and home; Ruth and Louie Kirk; sand dunes; rock formations; ruins; Susie Williams weaving basket

    Dates: 1950s; 1960s; 1970s
    Container: Box/Folder 13/14
  • Description: Coast Archaeology
    35mm b/w negatives

    Ozette Dig; Marine Reserve; Conservation: Meri Flinn, Debbie Coor; Field School crew at Ozette; Aerials of Ozette; Whale Barnacles; Neah Bay Lab; Artifacts found at Ozette; Tatoosh; Makah Museum exhibits and canoe replication; MCRC Longhouse; Cape Alava Dig; WSU teaching materials; Makah Museology at the Burke Museum; Fishing; Weaving; petroglyph molds

    Dates: 1960s-1970s
    Container: Box/Folder 14/A
  • Description: Coast Archaeology
    35mm b/w negatives

    Manis Mastadon excavation; Minard excavation; Hoko excavation

    Dates: 1947-1948; late 1970s
    Container: Box/Folder 14/B
  • Description: North Cascades
    2 1/4 b/w negatives

    Mt. Ranier; ice caves; Tahoma Glacier; Flowers; Kautz Flood; Nisqually River; Snow Lake; Silver Forest; Eunice Lake; Mowich Lake; Longmire Cabin; Tacoma Creek Flood; mountain climbing; Lake George; Andesite; Carbon River Valley; campground; Mt. Adams; Tatoosh; glacial striae in box canyon; Ohop Valley; flights over Cascades;

    Dates: 1960-1970s
    Container: Box/Folder 14/C
  • Description: Mt. Rainier & E. WA
    35mm b/w negatives; 4x5 b/w negatives

    Eastern Washington; Cathapotle; Mt. Ranier; Mt. Ranier in the winter; Glacier Bay

    Dates: 1970s
    Container: Box/Folder 14/D
  • Description: North Cascades + Olympic Aerials
    4x5 b/w negatives

    Aerials of Olympic Mountains; aerials of North Cascades

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 14/E
  • Description: North Cascades
    3x4 b/w prints; contact sheet prints

    Aerials of North Cascade peaks and ridges

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 14/F
  • Description: Kirk Family and Friends
    2 1/4 b/w negatives

    Ruth and Louie Kirk family and friends

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 14/G
  • Description: Kirk Family and Friends
    2 1/4 b/w negatives; 35mm b/w negatives

    Ruth and Louie Kirk; Lisa and Brian Kirk; Yoshi Nishihara and family; Kirk family history pictures; Kirk family house; other unidentified family and friends

    Dates: approximately 1960-1980s
    Container: Box/Folder 14/H
  • Description: Kirk Family Xmas Card
    2 1/4 b/w negatives; 4x5 b/w negatives

    Wedding pictures; friends and family; Christmas card portraits

    Dates: approximately 1960-1970s
    Container: Box/Folder 14/I
  • Description: Kirk Family and Friends
    2 1/4 b/w negatives;

    Ruth, Louie, Lisa and Brian Kirk; passport photos; Ambler, Alaska trip; Yellowstone trip; parades; Kirk Christmas photos; Lisa and Brian Kirks' birthdays; Kirk's house; Yoshi Nishihara sewing and in garden

    Dates: approximately 1969-1970s
    Container: Box/Folder 14/J
  • Description: Kirk CDs of Text Materials Used by UW Press (Archaeology of WA, 2006)
    CDs

    Kirk Final 12/3; Kirk Text 10/8/06; Kirk Map P. 141 12/6/06; Kirk + Daugherty Archaeology in Washington 6/15/06; Kirk Preface 10/4/06; Kirk/Daugherty Front Matter and Chap. 1 6/3/06

    Dates: 2006
    Container: Box/Folder 14/K
  • Description: Kirk Photos & Drawings used by UW Press (Archaeology in WA, 2006)
    8x10 b/w prints; drawings;

    Artifacts; drawings of artifacts; excavation sites; diagram of dwelling; models of archaeological sites; drawings of petroglyphs; knife replica being used to cut fish

    Dates: 2006
    Container: Box/Folder 14/L
  • Description: Kirk Photos & Slides used by UW Press (Archaeology in WA, 2006)
    4x5 b/w positives; 2 1/4 b/w negatives; 4x5 color prints; 35mm slides

    Historical buildings; students camping; images from microscope; artifacts; petroglyphs; archaeological dig sites; weapon replication demonstration; flora and fauna

    Dates: 1996-2006
    Container: Box/Folder 14/M
  • Description: Olympic Peninsula
    35mm negatives; 2 1/4 negatives; 4x5 b/w negatives

    Makah portraits (Virginia, Mabel, Helen Peterson, Nora Barker, Sam Parker, Norma Pendleton, Steve Pendleton, Sue Lyons, Edie Hottowe and family, Frank Smith, Joe McGimpsey, Curt Leadbetter, Jeannine Casey; Luke Markistum; Hubert Marishtum, Lena McGee, Isabel Ides, Ethel Claplanhoo, Geo Bowechop, Hank Walkendorf, Hilary Irving, Joseph Lawrence, Linda Moss); Makah Day; S. Morse Album; Neah Bay artists; Makah Tribal Council; Quileute; Hoh River daily life for Kirk book; Hoh River Potlatching; Hoh River Fishing; Hoh Dancing; Hoh rock lifting; Quinault canoe races; Quinault artifacts; Olympic Rain Forest; rain forest plants; Olympia aerials; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1967; Marmes archaeology for Kirk book, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1967; Olympic Peninsula outer coast - northern Wilderness Beach; southern Wilderness Beach; Lapush and Beaches' Two and Three; Rialto; Mora; Chilean Memorial; birds; tidepools; waves; beach textures; surf fishing; clamming; smelt fish; sunrays through fog; coast forest; Queets; rain forest wildlife (squirrels; chipmunk; snail; slug; salamander; frog; toad; insects; centipede; shrew; skunk; sea lions; seals; mountain beaver; mountain goats; deer; elk; coyote; fish; racoon; bobcat; bear; birds)

    Dates: 1960-1970s
    Container: Box 15
  • Description: British Columbia
    8x10 b/w prints

    Fishing; carving; weaving; clam digging; butchering whale; potlatches; totem poles; Fort Rupert dancers; Lady Rose ship to Uchuck Reservation; Ninstints, Queen Charlotte Island; Haida, Queen Charlotte Island; Alert Bay; Bow Lake, Jasper National Park; Friendly Cove, YuQuot; Tsuiat Falls; Ksan; Skedans; Hesquiat archaeological site, excavation and artifacts; B.C. coast scenery; historical photos; people (Bella Coola, Margaret Siwallace, Walter Harris, Barbara Kennedy, Ned Mack and family, Yorke Edwards, Beverly Fitzpatrick, Richard Beauchamp; Agnes Alfred, Effie Peterson, Alice Paul, Dick McMinn)

    Dates: 1960s
    Container: Box/Folder 16/A
  • Description: Olympic Rain Forest
    8x10 b/w prints

    Hoh Rain Forest; Quinault Rain Forest; Bogachiel Valley; Elijha Valley; old growth trees; plants; wildlife; old buildings

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 16/B
  • Description: Coast Archaeology (Not Ozette)
    8x10 b/w prints

    Col River artifacts; Kwatna figurines; Birch Bay excavation site; Upper Cowlitz River excavation site; Fishtown excavation site; La Push; Point of Arches; Hesquiat Band members; Ninstints BCPM project

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box/Folder 16/C
  • Description: E. WA archaeology (not Marmes)
    8x10 b/w prints; 3x4 b/w prints; photocopied color photos; photocopied textbook pages; drawings

    Preparing haul of fish; Jeff Flenniken's field class replicating stone tools; Nookta historical houses; Umatilla Reservation; Peluse River; Buck Lake, Mt. Ranier; geological diagrams; artifacts; Lind Coulee excavation site; Miller excavation site, Snake River; Col Plateau excavation site, Warden; petroglyphs; images from microscope; wildlife (Pika); plants (Blue Camas); people (Lizzie George, Ms. Harry Thompson, Catherine Cushingway, Richard Daugherty)

    Dates: 2005
    Container: Box/Folder 16/D
  • Description: Photos from book "Hunters of the Whale" Kirk/Daugherty
    8x10 b/w prints

    Makah people butchering whales on beach; whale hunting; artifacts; excavation sites, archaeological dig process, cleaning artifacts; archaeologists' camp; petroglyphs; stripping cedar bark; excavation of old buried house; Makah canoe racing; smoking fish; wildlife (whales, seals, sea lions, fish, reindeer); beach scenery; forest scenery

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 16/E
  • Description: Misc. Northwest
    2 1/4 color transparencies; 4x5 color transparencies

    Century Drive, Eastern Oregon; Yellowstone scenery; Tule Lake; Crater Lake; San Juan Island; Nisqually Delta; Pike Place Market and Pioneer Square, Seattle; Port Gamble; Port Townsend; Steilacoom; Whitman Mission; Skagit; Larch Homestead, Sherman Pass; Walla Walla; North Bend; Penrose Point, Dewatto; Fort Woorden; Fort Vance; Point Wilson lighthouse; Ginko State Park; Dry Falls; Steptoe Butte, Grand Coulee Dam, Roosevelt Lake; Soap Lake; Mima Mounds; Rhouys; North Cascades aerials; Mt. St. Helens; Marmes; Olmstead homestead; Lake Chelan; Klickitat; Hesquiat; 'Ksan; Victoria; UBC Museum, Vancouver; Cassiar Highway; Mt. Edziza; Skedans and Cumshewa, Queen Charlottes Island; Sitka; Juneau; Glacier Bay; Tanu; Wawona, San Mateo, USS Missouri; wildlife (owl, river otters, elk, buffalo, birds, horned toad)

    Dates: 1971-1974
    Container: Box/Folder 17/A
  • Description: Mt. Rainier & Olympic Peninsula
    2 1/4 color transparencies; 4x5 color transparencies

    Mt. Ranier; mastadon excavation; Olympic Coast; Olympic Rain Forest; Hoh Reservation; Hoh race canoes; Neah Bay; Point of Arches; Ozette; Tidepools; plants; people (David Hudson, Ted Hudson, Fred Fletcher)

    Dates: 1970s
    Container: Box/Folder 17/B
  • Description: Parks of the American West Photographs
    2 1/4 color transparencies; 4x5 color transparencies;

    Grand Canyon and Lee's Ferry, AZ; Navajo art goods at trading post, Canyon de Chelly, AZ; Organ Pipe Cactus National Park, AZ; Palmdale, CA; Nevada City, CA; Monterey, CA; Death Valley, CA; Searles Lake, CA; Tule Lake, CA; Virginia City, MT; Wheeler Peak, NM; Sonora, NM; Badlands, ND; Cedar Brakes, UT; Bryce Canyon, UT; Zion National Park, UT; Ashford, WA; Port Angeles, WA; Baja California, MX

    Dates: 1970s
    Container: Box/Folder 18/1
  • Description: Forest Ecology papers
    booklets; periodical articles; handwritten notes and drafts; notebooks

    Ecosystem Management booklet; articles on forest ecology; handwritten notes and speech drafts about forest ecology; notebooks with notes on: Wind River crane research, Bar Harbor, Kitlope, Olympic Peninsula Forest, Sequoia, old growth forest with Bob VanPelt, OPI 1994 Canopy Workshop, 1993 Portland Forest Conference, Forest Legacies

    Dates: 1990s
    Container: Box/Folder 18/2
  • Description: Dee Molenar Original Maps for Exploring Death Valley
    Vinyl maps

    5 Maps of Death Valley trails and topography

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 19
  • Description: Navajo
    4x5 color transparencies; 8x10 b/w prints

    Unidentified Panamint woman; Navajo family; Navajo medicine man; Navajo life: childcare, cooking, weaving, carving, sand painting; Navajo goods at Oljato Trading Post in Canyon de Chelly; Four Corners monument scenery; Delicate Arch, Colorado Plateau; Keet Seel ruins; Betatakin ruins; Anasazi ruins; fossil tracks; petroglyphs; geology

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 20/A
  • Description: Yellowstone
    8x10 b/w prints

    Firehole River; Mammoth Hot Springs; Grand Prismatic; geisers; runoff terraces; thermal features; petrified trees

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 20/B
  • Description: Yellowstone
    8x10 b/w prints

    Pine forest; park winter scenes; mountain ridges; waterfalls; Yellowstone Lake; Yellowstone River; view from Cool Green Heights;

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 20/C
  • Description: Death Valley
    8x10 b/w prints

    Death Valley hiking; Telescope Peak; Emigrant Springs; Furnace Creek; Scotty's Castle; National Parks Service; Charcoal kilns; Borax mining; mines & mills; Chloride City; Rhyolite; Panamint City; Arastra; 1949 celebration of First Wagon Trains entering Death Valley; graves

    Dates: 1949; 1950s; 1976
    Container: Box/Folder 20/D
  • Description: Death Valley moving rocks
    8x10 b/w prints

    Ubehebe Crater; Salt Creek; Sand Dunes; Harrisburg Flats; Devil's Golf Course (salt crystals); Striped Butte; Telescope Peak from Dante's View; Niter Beds; Moving Rocks; Death Valley indigenous people

    Dates: 1950s
    Container: Box/Folder 20/E
  • Description: Death Valley
    8x10 b/w prints

    Badwater; Saratoga; Titus Canyon; Great Basin Desert; Rhyolite; Ruth and Louie Kirk with son Bruce; water tank in Death Valley; wildlilfe (horned toads, geckos, scorpians, red spotted toad, pupfish, sidewinder tracks, rattlesnake, antelope ground squirrel, Chuckawalla, pack rat, solpugid, wild burros); Plants (arrowweed bushes, hairyleaf, beavertail blossoms, Spanish dagger plants, piñon trees)

    Dates: 1952
    Container: Box/Folder 20/F
  • Description: Death Valley
    8x10 b/w prints

    Pinacles; Searler Lake; Ubehebe Crater; Aguereberry; Panamint Mountains; Bloch Mountains; Dante's View

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 20/G
  • Description: North Dakota
    8x10 b/w prints

    Dakota Badlands; Beef Corral Prairie Dog Town; Little Missouri River; Elkhorn Ranch; Maltese Cross Ranch; Chateau de Mores; wildlife (prairie dogs, buffalo)

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 20/H
  • Description: Sonoran Desert - Flora
    8X10 b/w prints

    Sonoran Desert landscapes; joshua trees; datilillo; cardon cacti; teddy bear cholla; tillandsia; saguaro; nurse tree; cactus cristate; chain cholla; ocotillo; senita cactus; smoketree; arrowweed; prickly pear; yucca; organ pipes; bristle cone pine; palo verde; iron wood; elephant tree; boojum trees; aguave; creosote bush; dudleya; salicornia; buckwheat; usnea lichen

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 20/I
  • Description: Desert
    8x10 b/w prints

    Papago Reservation, people, daily life; Sonoran goods in Sonoyta, MX; buildings and building materials/techniques in Sonoyta; daily life in Sonoyta; Sonoyta church and cemetery; Puerto Penasco, MX; Rocky Point, MX; Gulf of California; Ajo, AZ; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, specimens and research; Sonoran Desert wildlife (Kangaroo rat, doves, ants, rattlesnake, badger, hares, antelope ground squirrel, lizards, tortoise, scorpion, beetles, roadrunner, kitfox, ringtail cat, gila monster)

    Dates: 1950s
    Container: Box/Folder 20/J
  • Description: Eastern Washington
    8x10 b/w prints

    Nesplem Valley; grassland; rock formations; geology; river

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 20/K
  • Description: Olympic Peninsula, Eastern Washinton, British Columbia - Native People
    8x10 b/w prints

    Neah Bay; Ozette; LaPush; Port Angeles; Alberni; Yakima; root digging on Mt. Adams; Hesquiat; Umatilla Reservation; Hoh Village; Ucluelet village; Quillayute River; fish trapping in Cowichan River; Nookta artwork; halibut drying; weaving; logging; canoe building and sailing; whaling; ceremony for governor; historical photos, sketches and portraits; people (Charlie Howeattle and his Great Grandfather, Napolean Moquwinne/Macquinna, Captain Jack, Ted Hudson)

    Dates: 1867; 1890s; 1900; 1902; 1915; 1929; 1950s; 1960-1970s
    Container: Box/Folder 21/1
  • Description: Olympic Peninsula - Native People
    8x10 b/w prints; contact sheet prints

    Hoh basketry; Makah Days dancing; Makah Tribal Council; Hoh River party; Lummi dancer; Quillayute Valley School, Forks; First Beach; canoe racing; people (Helen Peterson, Jerry McCarty, Bobe Lawrence, Hank Walkendorf, George Bowechop, Hilary Irving, Jean, Joseph Lawrence, David Young, Ted Hudson, David Hudson, Cliff Hudson, Pauid Hudson, Ada Williams, John Williams, Bill Penn)

    Dates: 1960-1970s
    Container: Box/Folder 21/2
  • Description: Manis Mastadon Archeology
    8x10 b/w prints

    Examining bones; excavation site, Sequim; people (Dr. Carl Gustafson, Delbert Gilbow, Dr. Richard Daugherty, David Cooper)

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 21/3
  • Description: Ozette Arts
    8x10 b/w prints; 4x5 b/w prints

    Ozette archaeology team; canoes; carvings; knives; bows and arrows; whaling harpoons; baskets; combs; net; hooks; hat; bowls; clubs; bailer; unidentified artifacts; people (Dick and Dewie Leary)

    Dates: 1971
    Container: Box/Folder 21/4
  • Description: Southwest
    35mm slides

    Mojave ruins; Canyon lands; Chaco Canyon; Mesa Verde; Anches; Santa Fe; Shashone; Sonora Museum

    Dates: 1984; 1985
    Container: Box/Folder 22/A
  • Description: Alaska
    35mm slides

    McBride Glacier; Columbia Glacier; Heather Island; Muir Inlet; Petersburg; Endicott; Yakutat; LeConte; Growler; mountain aerials

    Dates: 1982; 1992
    Container: Box/Folder 22/B
  • Description: Olympic National Park
    35mm slides

    LaPush; Hoh River; Forks; Quinault; Blue Glacier; Lake Crescent; Lake Ozette; logging; wildflowers; Wildlife (pelicans, elk)

    Dates: 1985; 1988
    Container: Box/Folder 22/C
  • Description: Rain Forest
    35mm slides

    Olympic Rain Forest through different seasons; flora; nurse logs; forest floor; rivers; waterfalls; Four Valleys

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 22/D
  • Description: Glacier Bay, Alaska
    35mm slides

    Taku Glacier; Riggs Glacier; LaPerouse Glacier; Glacier Bay; Lituya Bay; Dundas Bay; Goose Cove; Muir Inlet; Cape Spencer; Wolf Point; Fairweathers; Wahchusett; plants; wildlife (seals, humpback whales, kittawakes, salmon)

    Dates: 1970
    Container: Box/Folder 22/E
  • Description: Glacier Bay, Alaska (II)
    35mm slides

    Excursion Inlet; Riggs Glacier; Muir Inlet; Queen Inlet; Wolf Point; Fairweather; Lituya Bay; Juneau Ice Fields; fauna (humpback whales, seals, kittiwakes, eagles)

    Dates: 1976
    Container: Box/Folder 22/F
  • Description: Washington Historic Sites
    8x10 b/w prints; 4x5 b/w prints

    Liberty Gold Town historical architecture; Walla Walla historical architecture; Big Nine Mine and Mineral Inc. Orient Office; Snohomish historical architecture; Bellinham historical architecture; Port Gamble historical architecture; Lopez Island historical architecture; Port Townsend historical architecture; Lyons Ferry early settlement; old English camp on San Juan Island; Mount Young cemetery; Fort Simcoe; Fort Vance; Oysterville historical architecture; Hotel de Haro, Roche Harbor; Whidbey Island log house; Wauconda farm house; Carlton farm house; Mary Hill; Point Wilson lighthouse

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 23/A
  • Description: Yellowstone National Park - Mammals
    8x10 b/w prints

    Buffalo; coyotes; antelope; bighorn sheep; bears; elk; moose; porcupine; ground squirrels

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 23/B
  • Description: Yellowstone National Park - Birds
    8x10 b/w prints

    Ducks; geese; herons; pelicans; swallows; swans; woodpeckers; other unidentified bird

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 23/C
  • Description: Yellowstone National Park - Flora + visitor use
    8x10 b/w prints

    Dandelions; thistles; lodgepole pines; horseback riders in backcountry; Shoshone Lake; fishing; canoeing

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 23/D
  • Description: Olympic Peninsula
    8x10 b/w prints

    Flora and fauna; pack mules for hiking; salmon fry; clam digging; fishing; camping; ships and boats; log booms at Port Angeles and Grays Harbor; Port Angeles Plywood Mill; McAlmond House, Dungeness; Port Townsend historical architecture; Hood Canal; people (Frank Gonzales, Floyd Thornton, unidentified others)

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 23/E
  • Description: Olympic Peninsula
    8x10 b/w prints

    Blue Glacier; Hoh Forest; Elwha River; Hoh River; Dungeness River; Dungeness Hatchery; octopus trappers; canoeing; camping; woodworker; log booms; people (John Mandak, Ken Jones and father, Bill Anderson, Ralph Frazer, Matthew Polluck, Cheryl Mix, George Martin)

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 23/F
  • Description: Olympic Peninsula Coast/Seashore
    8x10 b/w prints

    Aleuva, Ozette; White Rock; Cape Flattery; Point of Arches; Wedding Rock; Kalaloch; clamming; fishing; petroglyphs; stormy beach scenery; sea invertebrates; seaweed; hiking; driftwood; aerials; wildlife (birds, seals, sea lions, whale)

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 23/G
  • Description: Snow book pictures
    8x10 b/w prints

    Snow covered forests; Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park; Glacier Bay; Mt. Olympus; hiking snowy peaks; sleds pulled by dogs, sheep, reindeer; sleds with engines; sleds with sails; snowflakes under microscope; wildlife (birds, wolf, insects, spiders, monkeys, reindeer, buffalo)

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 23/H
  • Description: Miscellaneous - Washington
    8x10 b/w prints

    Hoh River; San Juan Islands; Perkins House, Colfax; Hoquiam; Ellensburg; Fort Nisqually; Cheny; Ansorage Hotel, Curlew; Fort Spokane; Okanogan county; Moses Coulee; Roslyn; Fort Simcoe; Zillah; Grant's Ferry Landing; Black Diamond; Tumwater Brewery

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 23/I
  • Description: Miscellaneous - Nevada, California, Seismology, Science Center, Snowshoeing
    8x10 b/w prints

    Lehman Caves, NV; vinyard in Hollister, CA; seismology research center; Pacific Science Center; snow shoeing; people (geophysicist Rex Allen, Jim Gibbs)

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 23/J
  • Description: Miscellaneous - Seismology, Hiking, Dancers, Portraits
    8x10 b/w prints; 2 1/4 b/w prints; 2 1/4 negatives

    Seismology research center; glacier; hiking; balet dancers; portraits; people (geophysicist Jim Gibbs, Herb Mills, unidentified others)

    Dates: 1975
    Container: Box/Folder 23/K
  • Description: Miscellaneous - Mountains, Beach, Portraits
    8x10 b/w prints; 2 1/4 b/w prints;

    Hiking and camping; planes; sailboat; birds; mountains; beach and tidepools; 'Welcome Back' cake for Louie Kirk; portraits

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 23/L
  • Description: Washington - Scenery + Historical Preservation
    35mm slides

    Historical sites; geology; flora; fauna; Rock Lake; Crab Creek; Columbia River; Grand Coolie Dam; Medical Lake; Goldendale; Metaline Falls; Cascades; Saddle mountains; Penawawa Hills; Steptoe Butte; Alpowa; Pullman; Palouse Falls; Mary Hill; Watches Pass; Umpqua Hills; Olmstead Homestead; Yakima; Colville; Davenport; Waterville; Sprague; Zillah; Cheney; Okanagan; Ritzville; Juniper Hills; Ellensburg; Spokane; Dayton; Waltsburg; Walla Walla; Roslyn; Winthrop; Leavensworth; lead and zinc mill; pictographs

    Dates: 1988
    Container: Box 24
  • Description: Washington Historic Preservation
    35mm slides

    Schools; railroads and trams; churches; barns; farmhouses; mills; lighthouses; ships and shipwrecks; bridges; Anatone; Mayview; Snake River; Columbia River; Discovery Bay; Colville; Spokane; Chinook Lodge; Chehalis Burial; Oregon City; Grand Coulee Dam; Grays Harbor; Wenatchee; Waterville; Yakima; Quinault; Kanaka Village; Medical Lake; Clatsop; Steilacoom; Dockton; Fort Walla-Walla; Fort Simcoe; Fort Wright; Fort Spokane; Fort Vance; St. Joseph's Mission; St. Pauls Mission; Whitman Mission; English Camp; St. Frances Church; St. Mary's Church; Yakima Shakers Church; Hunters Church; St. John's Church; West Minister Church; Elde Church; Wilkeson Church

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 25
  • Description: Alaska
    35mm slides

    Washington historical sites; Glacier Bay; McBride Glacier; Taku Glacier; Tidal Inlet; Muir Inlet; Wachusett Inlet; Juneau Ice Fields; Marble Islands; Hoona; Elfin Cove; Wolf Point; Calving Ice; Marg-Grand; Bergie; Growler; Lituya Bay; Reid Inlet; Old Wood; wildlife (seals, brown bears); fishing and sailing; aerials

    Dates: 1975-1979
    Container: Box 26
  • Description: Ranier Flower Drawings
    Illustrations

    Original Flower Drawings for "Exploring Mt. Ranier" by Yoshi Nishihara

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 27
  • Description: Marmes
    35mm slides

    Marmes; Marmes dedication; aerials; maps; Marmes archaeological excavation; camp at Marmes site; artifacts; skeleton; geology; WSU geology lab; Marmes field lab; core drilling; screening; cremation hearth; sheep; Palouse Falls; Lyons Ferry Bridge; Monumental Dam; people (Richard Daugherty, Dr. Krantz, Dr. Bird, Dr. Fryxell, Ann Irwin)

    Dates: 1968
    Container: Box/Folder 28/A
  • Description: Canada
    35mm slides

    Victoria; Quadra Island; Vancouver Island; Brooks Peninsula; Nookta environs; Venuck; Garibaldi; Banff National Park; Athabaska Glacier; Fraser River; Bella Coola Valley; Cassiar Highway; Stewart-Hyder; Atlin lake; Lady Rose; Edzza; Lytton; Chilcotin Plateau; Mt. Albert; original Gold Rush filmstrip

    Dates: 1969-1981
    Container: Box/Folder 28/B
  • Description: Miscellaneous
    35mm slides

    Trees; Afro art; Mt. Rushmore; Custer; Pioneer Memorial Museum; San Gabriel Mission; Olympia Cherry Blossoms; K.C.P.Q.; Vancouver B.C.; Lake Crescent; Port Angeles; North Dakota; Elwha Valley; Mima; Queets fire; wildlife (hummingbirds, flamingos, fish, antelope, buffalo, cougar, deer)

    Dates: 1967; 1976; 1985
    Container: Box/Folder 28/C
  • Description: Titles, Maps, Copyright Etc.
    35mm slides

    Views from ship; native peoples; gold rush maps; Japan maps; rain forest maps; Mexico maps; title cards from film strips; Kirk credit/copyright cards from film strips; missions

    Dates: 1985
    Container: Box/Folder 29/A
  • Description: Natives
    35mm slides

    Ksan; Skeena; Driftwood Valley; Nookta; Kitwanga; Hesquiat; carving; dancing; drumming; petroglyphs; historical pictures; Quinault canoe race; houses and villages; potlatches; parties; artifacts; Tahola; people (Oliver Mason, Joe David, Joe DeLa Cruz, Bella Coola, Margaret Siwallace, unidentified others)

    Dates: 1967; 1971; 1975; 1984; 1989
    Container: Box/Folder 29/B
  • Description: Olympic Peninsula First Nations Peoples
    35mm slides

    Hoh potlatches; LaPush potlatch; Hoh parties; Hoh River Community Hall dedication; aerials of Hoh Reservation; canoe building; Makah cooking (salmon and sand bread); fishing; whaling; hatchery; people (Cheif David; Dave Forelines; Howard Hudson)

    Dates: 1962; 1966; 1967; 1971; 1972; 1976; 1978
    Container: Box/Folder 30/A
  • Description: Olympic Coast Peoples
    35mm slides

    Makah Days 'Bone Game'; Makah ceremonies; Makah Day dance parade; Makah Day canoe race; Hoh River canoe fishing; Makah commercial fishing boats; basket making; portraits of Makah people and children;

    Dates: 1965; 1966; 1967; 1969; 1978
    Container: Box/Folder 30/B
  • Description: Washington, Oregon
    35mm slides

    Aerials of Cascades; Skagit River; Chehalis; Nisqually Delta; Beacon Rock; Steilacoom; Hoh River Valley; Quinault Reservation; Oregon coast; Baker Glacier; Mt. Adams; Yakima; Mt. St. Helens; Seattle; Tacoma aquarium; Mollor; Mima Mounds; Scatter Creek; Discovery Bay; Hood Canal; Fort Rock, Oregon; logging; air rescue

    Dates: 1967; 1969; 1970; 1973; 1976; 1978; 1980; 1991; 1993
    Container: Box/Folder 30/C
  • Description: Olympic Alpine
    35mm slides

    Lake Constance; Crescent Lake; Lake Ozette; Heart Lake; Hoh Lake; Cream Lake; Royal Basin; Lillian Lakes; Marmot Lake; Moose Lake; Quillayute River; Mt. Olympus; Mt. Ranier; Enchanted Valley; Hurricane Ridge; Obstruction Point; Olympic Peninsula winter scenery and recreation; Olympic avalanche; Olympic skiing; Olympic alpine forests; night sky; landforms; flora (glacier lily, avalanche lily, marsh marigolds); wildlife (marmots, blacktail deer, mountain goats, elk)

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 31/A
  • Description: Olympic Alpine (II)
    35mm slides

    Alpine Lakes; Grand Valley; 7 Lakes Basin; Appleton Pass; Enchanted Valley; Olympic aerials; sunsets; flowers; geologic features; Rhody's farm; wildlife (mountain goats, deer, chipmonks, birds, elk, marmots)

    Dates: 1972; 1975; 1976
    Container: Box/Folder 31/B
  • Description: Glaciers
    35mm slides

    Blue Glacier research; White Glacier; Olympic glaciers; Olympic College climbers; glacier aerials

    Dates: 1967
    Container: Box/Folder 31/C
  • Description: Mt. Rainier (I)
    35mm slides

    Hiking; climbing; skiing; mountain rescue; forest fire; Mt. Ranier in Winter; Wonderland trail; Stevens Canyon; St. Andrew's Lake; Klapatche; aerials; cabins; ice caves

    Dates: 1968; 1985
    Container: Box/Folder 32/A
  • Description: Mt. Rainier (II) + Death Valley
    35mm slides

    Glaciers; Emerald Ridge Trail; Pyramid Peak; Camp Muir; Steamboat; Shoshone; Death Valley; Death Valley Race Track; Death Valley Mining

    Dates: 1954; 1955; 1956; 1965; 1985
    Container: Box/Folder 32/B
  • Description: Olympic Peninsula Peoples + Japan travel
    35mm slides

    Olympic Peninsula peoples; Marmes; Japan travel

    Dates: 1989
    Container: Box/Folder 32/C
  • Description: Miscellaneous
    35mm slides

    Kitlope; Mt. St. Helens before and after erruption; California; flora and fauna; travel (Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Hawaii, Scotland)

    Dates: 1985; 1995
    Container: Box/Folder 33/A
  • Description: Yellowstone
    35mm slides

    Yellowstone thermal areas; Shoshone Geiser Basin; Old Faithful; canyons; petrified trees; fishing; canoeing; camping; pack train; Teton Glacier; wildlife (bears, birds, moose, beavers, antelope, buffalo, sheep, deer, elk)

    Dates: 1969; 1970
    Container: Box/Folder 33/B
  • Description: Death Valley
    35mm slides

    Indigenous peoples; Mojave Desert; Salt Flats; Salt Creek; land formations; sand dunes; movie sets; mines; ghost towns; race track; flora; fauna

    Dates: 1957; 1963; 1975; 1981; 1985; 1986
    Container: Box/Folder 33/C
  • Description: Seashores (I)
    35mm slides

    Olympic National Park seashore; Point of Arches; LaPush; First Beach; Second Beach; Third Beach; Rallto; Raft River; Kalacoch; Tanoamatio; sunsets; wildlife (sea lions, dog fish, sea anenomes, urchins, sea stars, razor clam)

    Dates: 1974
    Container: Box/Folder 34/A
  • Description: Seashores (II)
    35mm slides

    Olympic seashore history; driftwood; geology; aerials; starfish; Point of Arches; Olympic coast wildlife (deer, crabs, whale, barnacles, dogfish, jelly fish, marine worms, seaweed, shrimp, sea urchins, seagulls)

    Dates: 1969; 1978
    Container: Box/Folder 34/B
  • Description: Death Valley Winter Trip
    35mm slides

    Balarat; new Death Valley Race Track; Goldbelt; Titus Canyon; Mesquite Springs; Keane Wonder; Gold Valley; Hanaupak; Salt Flats; Lemoigne; Eagle Borax; Scotty's Castle; Johnson Canyon; Hidden Valley; sand dunes; ranch areas; flora (joshua trees); fauna (wild burros)

    Dates: 1984; 1986
    Container: Box/Folder 34/C
  • Description: Puget Sound, South Pacific, Japan, Scotland
    35mm slides

    Japan; Scotland; Princess Louisa Inlet; Desolation Sound; Commencement Bay; Ludlow Island; Yellow Island; Waldron Island; South Pacific travel

    Dates: 1976
    Container: Box/Folder 35/A
  • Description: Rain Forest (I)
    35mm slides

    Olympic Rain Forest scenery; Cleapeut; Elk Lake; Mt. Tom; fishing; logging and mills; people (Winnie David Albern, Minnie Peterson); flora (ferns, moss, lichen, livwerwort, maple trees, fungus); wildlife (elk, deer, beavers, mountain beavers, cougars, river otters, voles, bears, squirrels, raccoon, frogs, slugs, bugs)

    Dates: 1971
    Container: Box/Folder 35/B
  • Description: Rain Forest (II)
    35mm slides

    Olympic Rain Forest scenery; Soleduck Valley; Oxalis; Tom Creek; Hoh River; Petersons' Hoh ranch; flora (old growth trees, skunk cabbage, horsetails, huckleberries, salmonberries, ghost pipes, ground covers, flowers); wildlife (salmon, flying squirrels, birds); people (Marie Lewis, Marilyn Emm, Minnie Peterson)

    Dates: 1978; 1974; 1977
    Container: Box/Folder 35/C
  • Description: Mexico
    35mm slides

    San Blas House Building; downtown San Blas; San Bas Fiesta; Jungle near San Blas; San Blas beach; San Blas Salt Works; San Blas Spanish Fort; Larua; El Golfo; Malatlan Fishing; Caborca; Concordia; Hermasillo; San Felipe; Durango; Baja Mission; Hermasilao Christmas; Guaymas area; portraits; Seri natives; Sonita; street scenes; architecture; market and street vendors; cooking and food

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 36/A
  • Description: Sonoran Fauna + Flora
    35mm slides

    Fringe lizard; horned lizard; kit fox; gila monster; tortoise; desert snakes; sandpipers; ducks; osprey; owls; pelecan; vulture; road runner; quail; insects; ants; scorpions; tumble bugs; centipedes; spiders; tarantulas; moths; round tail squirrels; pack rats; fish; otters; coati; ringtail cats; skunks; jack rabbits; bighorn sheep; porcupine; antelope ground squirrels; bobcats; prairie dogs; pecary; kangaroo rats; cactus flowers; brittlebush; non-cactus flora

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 36/B
  • Description: Sonoran Desert
    35mm slides

    Nevada desert cape; Sabino Canyon; Sasabe; Ocotillo House; Puerto Libertad; Puerto Penasco; Yuma Dunes; desert farmland; dune vegetation; Papago natives; Spring Palms; Baja; Anza-Borrego Desert; sunsets and cloudbursts; Shoshone; Palo Verde; Tinaja; Saratoga; oases; snow in desert; flora (century plants; desert holly; maguay agave; yuccas; iron woods; ocotillo; saguaros; chain cholla; mistletoe; joshua trees; acacia trees; jumping cholla; senita cactus; organ pipe cactus; barrel cactus; boojum trees; pinacate; smoke trees; creosote bushes; elephant tree; tumbleweeds)

    Dates: 1971; 1974; 1984
    Container: Box/Folder 36/C
  • Description: Alaska and Pacific Northwest
    35mm slides; 3x4 b/w prints

    Olympic Peninsula; Oregon; California; Death Valley; Mexico; Japan; African art at Seattle Art Museum; Kennedy Elwha trip; Century Drive; McKenzie Pass; Bogie; aerials of lava cast forest and crater; Oneida Gorge; Multnomah Falls; Olympic Rain Forest; Burno; Port Townsend; Fort Rock; Crater Lake; Lake Ozette; Lake Crescent; Hoh River Valley; Neah Bay; Royal Basin; logging; fishing; salmon hatchery; canoes; jazz performance; flora; wildlife; people (Cheif David Young, unidentified others)

    Dates: 1964; 1966; 1968; 1971; 1972; 1975
    Container: Box 37
  • Description: Crater Lake Country
    8x10 b/w prints

    Crater Lake scenery; geological features; ice formations; marsh land; petroglyphs; flora; fauna

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 38/A
  • Description: North Cascades
    8x10 b/w prints

    Aerials of Cascades; Harts Pass; Mt. Baker

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 38/B
  • Description: Olympic Peninsula Glaciers
    8x10 b/w prints

    Blue Glacier ice study; Mt. Olympus; Hoh Glacier; people (Ed Chapelle, Dr. Barclay Kamb, Dr. Clarence Allen, Jim Westphal, Ron Shreve, Bill Altimar)

    Dates: 1957
    Container: Box/Folder 38/C
  • Description: Alaska
    8x10 b/w prints

    Beaches; Fairweather Mountain Range; LaPerouse Glacier; Columbia Glacier; Margerie Glacier; Prince William Sound; Glacier Bay; Bartlett Cove; aerials of mountains; ice formations; fishing; indigenous peoples; dog sleds; snowmachines; hunting; wildlife (reindeer, moose, seals, birds)

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 38/D
  • Description: Olympic Peninsula Mountains
    8x10 b/w prints

    Aerials of Olympic Mountains; mountain climbing; camping; Hurricane Ridge; High Divide; Brothers Mountain; Deer Park; Grand Valley; Hoh River; Hoh Lake; Blue Glacier; Mt. Constance; flora; people (Ruth Kirk, Louie Kirk, Fran Merchant, Hank Blas)

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 38/E
  • Description: Winter: Ranier, Olympic Park
    8x10 b/w prints

    snow; snowshoeing; skiing; icicles; Paradise Ranger Station; buffallo; reindeer; elk; snow plow; Hurricane Ridge Lodge; historical photos; dog sled; Mazama Ridge; moose; Kautz Creek;

    Dates: 1890s; 1960s
    Container: Box/Folder 38/F
  • Description: Alaska: Glacier Bay
    35mm slides

    Aerials; Dundas Bay; Taylor Bay; Upper Bay; Lituya Bay; Bartlett Cove; Goose Cove; Muir Inlet; Star Princess Cruise; Princess Pat Cruisel Perouse Glacier; Margerie Glacier; Tarr Inlet; Fairweather; Salisbury; Wachusetts; Honashi; Numatak; hiking to glaciers

    Container: Box/Folder 38/G
  • Description: Miscellaneous
    Papers; Clippings; Brochures

    Brochure for Olympic Peninsula beaches; Seattle Times page with article about Gray's Camp, 10/2/1966; handwritten Hoh River notes; notes on trails; article on Lake Cushman from Bremerton Sun, 4/10/1962; Black Ball Ferry Line brochure; Olympic Peninsula brochure; Olympic Peninsula maps; compiled bibliography about Olympic National Park

    Dates: 1960s
    Container: Box/Folder 39/1
  • Description: Olympic Peninsula
    Papers; Clippings

    Newspaper clippings about Olympic Peninsula; newspaper clippings about events; notes about camping on Olympic Peninsula

    Dates: 1960s
    Container: Box/Folder 39/2
  • Description: Washington State Parks
    Papers; Clippings; Brochures; Correspondence

    Port of Port Townsend brochure; State Park info sheets; Washington State Parks brochure; Port Angeles brochure; newspaper clippings about Olympic Peninsula; Olympic National Park annual travel report, 1965; The Totem Magazine, vol. 7, no. 12, December 1965; correspondence; Washington Ports brochure; Washington State brochure; notes on Washington nature areas

    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box/Folder 39/3
  • Description: Washington State Brochures
    Brochures; Clippings

    Ocean Shores Resort map; North Olympic Beaches brochure; Aberdeen brochure; WA boat moorages brochure; WA State Parks brochures; Dept. of Natural Resources 1959 Timber Harvest Report; WA 1962 Special Events brochure; Puget Sound Cruises borchure; Capital Lakefair 1962 Civic Celebration brochure; Weyerhaeuser Company Grays Harbor Pulp & Paper brochure; Salmon Hatcheries brochure; WA Trailer Parks brochure

    Dates: 1959; 1962
    Container: Box/Folder 39/4
  • Description: Industries
    Clippings; Brochures; Corresponsence

    Newspaper clippings; WA camping brochures; Olympic Peninsula brochure; Forks brochure; Point of Arches brochure; Olympic Rain Forest brochure; WA fishing guide; National Wildlife Refuges pamphlet; info about logging in WA; correspondence about tours of shipyards, oyster processing plant, lumber mills, cranberry processing plant,

    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 39/5
  • Description: Maps
    Maps

    Vancouver Island map; Seattle brochure; Olympic National Park map; Quil-Hoodsport map; Soleduck map; Quinault-Shelton map;

    Dates: 1960s
    Container: Box/Folder 39/6
  • Description: Miscellaneous
    35mm slides; 2 1/4 negatives; 2 1/4 b/w prints

    Title card slides; stills from production work; music lesson slides; Hesquiat maps; Mt. St. Helens; Snohomish; Skagit; portraits; British Columbia; Cassiar; Atlin; UBC Museum of Anthropology; Vancouver Island; M.V. Uchuck Freight Service; hiking West Coast; desert landscape and geology; Utah; Cathedral Gorge; Cedar Brakes; Arizona; England; Scotland; Europe; Hawaii; Taiwan; Phillipines; Thailand; Fiji; photos for book "Laura of Mexico"; Coyote Butte; Oregon Trail; Malad Gorge; Havasu Canyon; Oak Creek; Nevada; Lees Ferry; Snake River; Gulf Islands; California; Mitchell's Cavern; Shonto Trading; Seattle Seafair air show; Crater Lake; Tule Lake; flora and fauna

    Dates: 1963; 1970; 1972; 1975; 1980s
    Container: Box 40
  • Description: Southwest; Pacific Northwest
    2 1/4 negatives; 4x5 negatives; 35mm slides

    Death Valley National Park; North Dakota; Theadore Roosevelt National Park; New Mexico arches; Utah arches; Sonoita village; Canyon Lands; Chaco Canyon; Mesa Verde; Bryce Canyon; Zion Canyon; Canyon de Chelly; Grand Canyon; Crater Lake; Montazumas Castle; NPS work; Mt. Ranier; Crater Lake; Ozette Lake; Olympic Coast; LaPush harbor and fishing; High Divide; Port Angeles; Blue Glacier; tidepools

    Dates: 1964; 1976; 1978
    Container: Box 41
  • Description: Taku
    35mm slides

    Sailing; British Columbia; Bella Bella; hot springs; Namu; Desolation Sound; Princess Louisa Inlet; Prince Rupert; Vancouver; aerials

    Dates: 1970s-1980s
    Container: Box/Folder 42/A
  • Description: Pacific Northwest
    35mm slides

    Sailing; San Juan Islands; Neah Bay; South Puget Sound; Ozette; Olympia; Seattle waterfront; WA state ferry

    Dates: 1970s-1980s
    Container: Box/Folder 42/B
  • Description: Europe
    35mm slides

    U.K. nature preserves; Scotland; Great Britain; Wales; Greenland; Canada; Perth; Lotian; Culzean; Cairngorms; Belfour; Crieff; Battleby; Loch Lomand; Dunkeld; Loch Ness; Glen Coe; Cromerty

    Dates: 1963
    Container: Box/Folder 42/C
  • Description: Japan
    35mm slides; 35mm negatives

    Tokyo; Osaka; Kyushu; Hokkaido; Nagasaki; farming villiages; shrines & temples; city streets; Ryokan Inn; Himeji Castle; Mt. Fuji; Towada Lake; Ise Peninsula; coast; fishing; food; tea ceremony; hot springs; cherry blossoms

    Dates: 1964; 1972
    Container: Box/Folder 43/A
  • Description: Sailing WA + B.C.
    35mm slides

    Sailing; San Juan aerials; Pirates Cove; Fishermens Bay; Commencement Bay; Garrison Bay; Silva Bay; Neah Bay; Pendor Island; Mandarte Island; Sucia Island; Sidney Spit; Speiden; Stuart Island; Orcas Island; Waldron Island; Yellow Island; Vashon Island; Blake Island; Friday Harbor; Roche Harbor; Gig Harbor; Seattle; Port Ludlow; Port Townsend; The Straits; Smith Island; Makah Day; sea birds; fishing boats; commercial ships; people (Jean Emmerson, unidentified others)

    Dates: 1984
    Container: Box/Folder 43/B
  • Description: Miscellaneous
    35mm slides

    Theadore Roosevelt Park, ND; Death Valley; filmstrip title cards; Harpers Ferry; Guulf coast; Californian coast; Gulfport; Mt. Shasta; African art

    Dates: 1968; 1974
    Container: Box/Folder 43/C
  • Description: Northwest Native Peoples filmstrips
    Filmstrips

    Native Village Arch.; Northwest Coasts and Native Traditions Today; Olympic Coast Natives Today

    Dates: 1963; 1964
    Container: Box/Folder 43/D
  • Description: Mounted Prints
    b/w prints; color prints (various sizes)

    Northwest coast; Alaska; Japan; Mexico; Thailand; Taiwan; Phillipines; England; Wales; Scotland; France; KPEC-TV Productions; people (Ruth and Louie Kirk, Dr. Richard Daugherty, Bill Kimber, John Watson, KPEC secretaries, May Roberts, Darcy and Merle Carey, Yoshi Nishihara, Martha Hill, other unidentified)

    Dates: 1964; 1970
    Container: Box 44
  • Description: Hawaii and NW Sailing
    35mm slides

    Hawaii coast; sailing around Puget Sound, British Columbia, Alaska

    Dates: 1964; 1970-1980s
    Container: Box/Folder 45/1
  • Description: Death Valley
    35mm slides

    Death Valley high country; mines; commercial salt flats; flood weather and storms; race tracks; ghost towns; oases; people; history

    Dates: 1950s
    Container: Box/Folder 45/2
  • Description: Europe
    35mm slides

    England; Wales; Scotland; Germany; Holland; Austria; Italy; France; Spain

    Dates: 1963
    Container: Box/Folder 45/3
  • Description: U.S. State Parks
    35mm slides

    Black Hills, South Dakota; Rocky Mountains, Colorado; Chickasaw State Park, Tennessee; Southwest desert

    Dates: 1947-1948
    Container: Box/Folder 45/4
  • Description: Mt. Rainier
    35mm slides

    Mt. Ranier Summit; Wonderland Trail; Hudson Zone; mountain climbing; hiking; skiing; flowers; timber; mountain rescue; wildlife

    Dates: Mid 1950-1960s
    Container: Box/Folder 45/5
  • Description: Oversize Prints
    Two stacks of oversized mounted photos

    Travels, Europe

    Container: Box 46
  • Description: U.S. National Parks & Travel
    35mm slides

    Washington; Arizona; California; North Dakota; Utah; Wyoming; Colorado; Alaska; Canada; Scotland; Vietnam; Thailand; Taiwan; Hawaii; Phillipines; KPEC-TV

    Dates: 1948; 1951; 1952; 1954; 1957; 1964
    Container: Box 47
  • Description: Large prints & mounted prints
    8x10 prints; 11x14 prints

    Glaciers; skiing; caves; ballet; fishing; salt flats; Olympic Coast; Mt. Ranier; Shishi Beach; Olympic Rain Forest; Olympic National Park fire; Yellowstone; Lake District, England; Flatford Mill, England; Slimbridge, England; Snowdonia National Park, Wales; Ifagao, Phillipines; Pagsanjan River, Phillipines; Mt. Tatun, Taipei; Yeh Lin, Taiwan; Ali Shan, Taiwan; Taipei, Taiwan; Camargue, France; Duderstadt, Germany; Göttingen, Germany; La Turbie, France; Monaco; Ayudhya, Thailand; Bankok, Thailand; San Blas, Mexico; Sonoita, Mexico; Mexican architectural features; wildlife; people (George Tsudakawah, William Douglas, Ethel Kennedy, unidentified others)

    Dates: 1960s
    Container: Box 48

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)

Personal Names

  • Kirk, Ruth--Photographs
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