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.

Photo album containing Willits Brothers stationary.

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

Includes drawings for canoe mast seat and sailing rudder tiller assembly.

Owned by Floyd Willits during Army service during World War 1.