Instruction Sheets

Photo album containing Willits Brothers stationary.

Equipment Records

Financial records notebook

General Notes

Time Records

Accounting ledger spanning 1909-1926

Balance sheets, c. 1920s

Balance sheets spanning 1914- 1924.

Accounting ledger spanning 1920-1925

Includes notes describing six steps of oiling porcedure.

Includes Coast Guard identification card including photo and fingerprint of Earl Willits.

Majority unused, with some writing on pg. 69-70.

Cloth bound ledger

Includes summaries of costs of goods sold, time accrued, accounts receivable, and cost ledger. Bound in card stock.

Handmade ledger with leather binding that logs cash disbursements, cash receipts, purchases, sales, journal and petty cash.

Printing samples for Day Island Club materials.

Small black scrapbook style photo album, 8 ¼” x 5 ¾”, c. 1910s

Photographs in the album include the following subjects:
• Camping
• Swimming
• Women’s swimwear
• Road on Wollochet property
• Wollochet Bay
• Paddling Willits canoe
• Willits canoe under sail
• Willits canoe speeding with motor
• Canoe shop on Wollochet Bay
• Interior views of the Wollochet Bay canoe shop and process steps in building the canoes
• Silver Heels
• “Bay Island” boat – one of the Mosquito Fleet ferries
• Olson’s house (assumed to be on Wollochet Bay)
• Carlson’s house (assumed to be on Wollochet Bay)
• State Capitol (original State Capitol, aka The Castle, Olympia, WA) Served as the State Capital from 1905 to 1928
• Sylvester Park (“Park in Olympia), by the State Capitol
• Kathryn’s House
• Dr. McKaye’s House
• “In the tree tops” an unintentionally mounted upside down
• Willits home at 36th and Proctor
• Mabel Bond’s picnic
• “Mother’s House” in Victoria (BC?) – The boarding house Ellen Matthew, Clinton’s 2nd wife, lived in.
• Lagoon in Victoria
• Beacon Hill Park, Victoria
• Bridge over the Gorge (assumed to be Columbia River Gorge)
• Canoeing at the Gorge (assumed to be Columbia River Gorge)
• Kelly Field, Texas
• Airshow at Kelly Field, Texas
• Plane crash
• Fort Sill, Texas
• Life at Fort Sill, Texas, WWI (where Earl served)
• Fort Lawton Barracks, Washington (where Earl signed up for service)
• Fort Lawton Officer’s Quarters
• Soldier’s at Chatenay, France
• 137th Aero Squadron at Chatenay, France
• Art School Dance, Cambridge, England (Earl is on the right at the end of the third row from the front)
• Nurses
• Yosemite Park
• Farm life
• Labor Day 1916
• Mosquito Fleet
• Washington State Capitol
• Victoria BC
• Columbia River Gorge
• Kelly Field, Texas
• WWI

People
• Anne Nelson
• Clyde Willits Jr
• Earl Willits
• Erskine Van de Wall
• Evelyn Nelson
• Floyd Willits
• George Blight (Clinton Willits’s stepson)
• Gerald Rolf
• Gladys Willits
• Irma Johnson
• Laurence Turner
• Leighton Turner
• Leonard Willits
• Lieutenant Grant
• Lisa Chase
• Lois Chase
• Lyle Willits
• Mabel Bond
• Mr. Wright
• Mrs. Bramwell
• Mrs. Crockett
• Mrs. Fairbanks
• Mrs. Johnson
• Nana Nelson
• Olive (Ollie) Huber Willits
• Ruth V. Willits (Floyd & Earls’ sister)
• Ruth Willits (Clyde Jr’s sister)
• The Johnsons
• The Walkers
• Wilbur Mason
• Zell A Chase

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