Black scrapbook style photo album with a tied binding, 6” x 8 3/8”.

Combination of contemporary and early twentieth century photographs as well as newspaper clippings.

Hardback scrapbook album approximately 11x17 inches with photographs dated 1946-1957.

Photographs in this album cover the following subjects:

• Willits canoes on cars
• Willits sailing canoes
• Rowboat under construction
• Charles & Alice’s schooner “Nohea”
• Willits motor boat
• US Army ducks (photo 171 & 172)
• Ferry at Pt Fosdick
• Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1949-1950) – towers under construction and the day after opening
• Family dinner at Wollochet cabin
• Elmer Engvald’s Criss-Craft
• Cedar logs towed behind motor boat (for canoes)
• Load of cedar for canoes on Rucker Brothers in front of Willits Brothers shop
• Don and Virginia (Smith) Waddell’s home in Parkland, WA
• Day Island water committee/ views of drilling and posing around new well
• McCormack Branch Library
• Downing School
• Ta-ha-da-wa Camp from the water (photo 225)
• pavilion and swimming pool (photos 283, 284, 344, 345, 346)
• canoes on Day Island beach
• ‘view from Earl’s bedroom’ (photo 151)
• University Place Fire Department 1952
• UP Freight Train under Tacoma Narrows Bridge
• McNeil Penitentiary 1952 (Photo 268)
• Boats at Tacoma Yacht Club (photo 269)
• Willits Brothers Canoe shop and home on Day Island (photo 305)
• Fox Island Bridge (photo 307)
• Photo from Phil & Don Hemenway who purchased two canoes – appears to be a summary of the year’s events (1956)
• Willys-Knight car (before the Golden Jubilee parade)
• Charles Carter’s cruiser (boat)
• Flowers on Ruth (Carter) Willits grave (New Tacoma Cemetery, University Place)
• Home on Wollochet Bay with neighbor Hogan’s property in one view

People
• Alice Clifford Chrestenson (child of Ruth V Willits Clifford) & Charles E Chrestenson
• Charles (Chesterton) and family in station wagon (1950)
• Clyde Willits
• Day Island Water Committee (May 1950) – John Hanson, Melvin Brown, Horton Wilcox, Edgar Fritz, Bill Allard, Louis Brown, Floyd Willits
• Don Waddell Jr
• Don Waddell Sr
• Don Waddell’s family: Don, Virginia Elinor Smith (Laura’s daughter with first husband), Don J, Laura (Lorrie)
• Earl Willits
• Floyd & Ruth (Carter) Willits (photo 276)
• Janet Chrestenson (descendent of Ruth V Willits Clifford’s daughter Alice)
• Johnny & Juanita Widen (descendant of Ray Willits)
• Laura Magill Smith Willits
• Lon Willits (son of Leonard Willits)
• Lorrie Waddell
• Magill family (Laura’s family) with Laura & Earl
• Paul Chrestenson (descendent of Ruth V Willits Clifford’s daughter Alice)
• Ruth Willits Clifford
• Shirley (Clifford), Russell, and Nancy-Anne Beckim
• Shirley Clifford Beckim (child of of Ruth V Willits Clifford)
• Stuart (Laura’s son by first marriage) & Audrey Smith

Includes photo portrait of a woman in formal gown, by Tomlinson Studio, Santa Barbara, 1959.

Date written on tube that previously held the rolled photograph.

Drawings on paper show gargen plot lay-out for home of Earl and Laura Willits

Blueprints of street maps of the City of Tacoma, undated. Cover reads "From Desk at Willits". Includes 1 unbound page of aerial photo dated 09-08-1961. Likely owned by Leonard Willits.

Cut on paper

Drawings on paper

Drawings on paper

Drawings on paper

Blueprints of residence for Albert Clifford, Seattle WA. Mr. Clifford was Clinton Willit's son-in-law (Married to Ruth Willits)

At Shoal Bay

To be erected on Hampshire Road, Victoria B.C. Includes cost estimates

For a lawsuit brought by Clinton Willits regarding an auto accident, April 30th 1920