Includes correspondence regarding a canoe trip to Alaska

Includes literature collected at Tacoma Boat Show April, 1955, including Pacific Motor Boat Magazine, April 1949.

Includes letter from Willits Canoe Company responding to Looking Backward column.

Includes Old Brownie Picture Index, Camera Index Business Pictures, Camera Index Eastman #aA Autographic Kodak Jr. 1919 - March 12, 1940, Camera Index Monitor Kodak #616 - 2 1/2" x 4 1/4" March 24, 1940 - ?,

Includes photos of Ruth Vanatta Willits Clifford.

Includes photos of Earl Willits, World War I.

Includes photos of Clinton Willits, first wife Adda Kiddoo, second wife Ellen Blight, children George Blight, Leonard Willits.

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

Historic family photos ranging from 1940-1941.

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)