Includes instructions for canoe owners regarding various parts, accessories, or repair methods.

Includes instructions for canoe owners regarding various parts, accessories, or repair methods.

Four oversized (16.5"x 20") family photo prints and mat board with pictures titled "Canoeing" (a young woman in a canoe), "Saturday Night" (a young boy taking a bath in a pot outside), "Summer Time" (a young man and woman sailing in a canoe) and a family photo.

Oversized (15"x16.5") family photo collage featuring photos of Floyd and Earl Willits, canoes, and the Day Island canoe factory.

Includes design drawings for painter eye cleats.

Includes instructions for canoe owners regarding various parts, accessories, or repair methods.

Includes instructions for canoe owners regarding various parts, accessories, or repair methods.

Panoramic Photo of Swimmers, Spectators, Canoes, Boats at A. A. U. Annual State Swimming Meet at American Lake, Garrison's Boat House, Notation "Boland E 1372" bottom left

Patents for Rowing Apparatus and Chest Hangings

For canoe design #10

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

7x5 inch photo album with photographs dated 1907. Photographs cover a survey crew, including Earl C. Willits, working in Alaska in 1907. Also included are photos of:
• Katalla, Alaska
• Copper River
• Childs Glacier
• Logging camp
• Camp life
• Skating
• Wildlife

Small black scrapbook style photo album, 8 ¼ x 5 ¾. Contains several loose photos. Photographs in this album date between 1919 and 1921.

Photographs in the album cover the following subjects:
• Silver Heels (sail boat)
• Dinner Party at Clinton Willits’ home upon Earl’s return from France/WWI
• Willits cabin on Wollochet Bay
• Interior of Wollochet Bay cabin (fireplace)
• First birthday (Alice Chrestenson)
• Travel photos
• The Cascades (Washington)
• Railroad bridge in the Cascades
• Missouri River at Lombard, Montana
• South Dakota
• Near Ellensberg, WA
• Butte, Montana
• Porter on the Columbian (train)
• Red Cross ‘girls’ in Butte, MT
• Mississippi River, St Paul, MN
• State Capitol, St Paul, MN
• Minnehaha Falls (flowing and frozen)
• Longfellow Gardens
• Soldier’s Home, Minneapolis
• Hales Pass
• Snoqualmie Falls, Washington
• Snoqualmie River, Washington
• Summit of the Cascades, July 4th 1919
• Picnicking
• Beach party
• Mrs. Bramwell drinking from the “Fountain of Youth”
• Point Defiance
• The “Atlanta” (a steam ship)
• Gig Harbor Ferry “City of Tacoma”
• “Bay Island” boat – one of the Mosquito Fleet ferries
• Cars
• Walton School of Law
• Bachelor’s Retreat
• Wasserfurths Picnic at Henderson Bay
• Mrs. Kaye’s cottage Wollochet Bay
• Lawson’s cottage, Wollochet Bay

People
• Albert “Bert” Clifford
• Andrew Walker
• Bell Huber
• Bernard Tollefson
• Bess Winslow Willits
• Clinton Willits
• Clinton Willits and family
• Clyde Willits and family
• Clyde Willits Jr
• Dorothy Carlson
• Earl Willits
• Edith Claven
• Edith Holmes
• Ella Sangersand
• Ellen Holmes
• Elvira Tollefson
• Ethel McFerron
• Floyd Willits
• Hazel Cory’s Sunday school girls
• Hazel McKay
• Howard & May McFerron
• Mr. and Mrs. Bramwell
• Mr. and Mrs. Garrison
• Olive Huber Willits
• Ralph and Wilbur Mason
• Ray Willits
• Ray Willits’ family (Ray, Bess, Florence, Ione)
• Ruth Johnson
• Ruth Willits (Clyde Willits Sr’s daughter)
• Ruth Willits Clifford
• Sara Thompson
• The Dodson’s
• The Sangersand family
• Vera Crockett
• Zelma Strand

Includes photographs of Willits family, friends, canoes and canoe manufacturing.

Black scrapbook style photo album with a tied binding, 6” x 8 3/8”. Photographs in this album are dated 1924 - 1929.

Photographs cover the following subjects:

• Willits canoe with Johnson motor on it
• Silver Heels
• Cropped images of a Willits Canoe
• Willits canoe assembly
• Padded canoe on top of Willits Brother’s car (to Dyas)
• Three canoes on car for delivery to Williams
• 9 Willits canoes on trailer and car at University of Washington
• Willits canoe under sail
• Motor Canoe
• Willits motor canoe pull painted Willits canoe
• Willits’ house on Day Island with wave spray touching house
• Crated Willits canoe for ocean shipment
• Willits motor boat
• New Willits cottage at Wollochet Bay
• Cars
• Cars pulling a trailer with canoes on it
• Cruiser “Wee Two”
• Bridge deck of the “Wee Two”
• Arthur Rust’s “Lady Helen”
• Canoe race – men’s doubles
• Pavilion at Point Defiance
• Beach at Point Defiance and swimmers
• Speed boats and Perkins yacht
• Aeroplane on the water at Point Defiance
• Nurses (WWI)
• Picnic with Ruth & Jack
• Pavilion at Williams Park, Lake Stevens
• The “hot dog” house
• Sailing in Jack’s dinghy
• Picnic at Narada Falls
• Bert’s car
• Christmas
• Feeding a Chipmunk
• Camping at Paradise (1926)
• Saddle horses at Paradise
• “Margaret”, Bak’s cruiser
• Moore’s Sea Sled (Hickman model?)
• Wollochet Ferry
• Dogs

Places
• Mt Tacoma taken from
• Inspiration Point
• Paradise Inn
• Frog Haven
• Paradise Inn
• Longmire Hotel
• Nisqually
• Tatoosh Range
• Sluishkin Galls
• Paradise River
• Paradise Valley
• Glacier Island
• Tahoma Glacier
• Pyramid Peak
• Pinnacle Peak
• Summerland
• Mt Ararat
• Cairn (sic, Carron) at Pinnacle Peak
• Lilliwap Falls
• Cushman Dam
• Narada Falls
• Canyada Lodge
• Mt Rainier
• From Panorama Point
• Paradise
• Green Point near Arletta
• Day Island
• Echo Rock from Spray? Park
• Day Island shore in a storm
• Eagle Falls near Index

People
• Alice Clifford Chrestenson (child of Ruth V Willits Clifford) & Charles E Chrestenson
• Albert “Bert” Clifford
• Betty
• C. Alexander
• Christie
• Earl Willits
• Ethel Harrison
• Floyd Willits
• Floyd Willits with customer
• Fred Clarke
• Helen Clarke
• Irene Thompson
• Jack Sails (Sails capitalized but may be Jack sails the Wee Two)
• Jeanette MacDonald
• Leonard Willits
• Lewis Robinson
• Lorraine
• Margaret Grim
• Marion
• Rose
• Roy

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.

Historic family photos ranging from 1940-1941.

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

Hardback album approximately 9x11 inches with photographs dated 1957-1965.

Photographs in this album covering the following subjects:
• Willits canoes on cars (people taking delivery of their canoes)
• Outside view of the Willits shop
• Cars (Dauphine, Plymouth, Volkswagen, ‘Swedish car’, Dodge)
• Earl Willits’ 1955 Dodge
• Santa Barbara, CA courthouse
• Shirley & Russell Beckim home in San Pedro, CA
• Charles & Alice Clifford’s home in Santa Barbara, CA
• Dwight Willits home in Santa Barbara
• Ruth Willits Clifford’s home in Santa
• Landscape photos of San Pedro and Santa Barbara, CA
• Construction of Day Island Bridge (1958-59)
• Day Island lagoon
• Tacoma High School 1909 50th class reunion –
• Earl Willits in third row from front, 4th person in
• Earl Willits playing fiddle for a Unitarian Square Dance (April 20, 1958)
• Photo includes Mrs. Laurence Burt (?), Mrs. Joe Skidmore, Jack Shireman
• Camp Ta-ha-da-wa Canoes paddling on the lake August 1959
• Canoe built by Carl Isakson May 1960
• Girl Scouts St Albans 1960
• Arthur Nelson’s home/camp? on Steele Lake
• Dr. Alfred Shultz and Camp Ta-ha-da-wa campers starting their trip to Alaska (photo 479)
• Stadium High School in 1964 (photo 509)

Photograph Negative No. 426-465 on one double sided page of the album. The rest of the album is unused.

Arrived with binding removed. Contains photographs spanning #574-749. Appears to be a separate series from the majority of the Willits photograph collection. Possibly the photographs of Mrs. Leonard Willits, as correspondence addressed to her was included in the album's original container.