Newspaper Clippings - Various, and Pacific Motor Boat Magazine, April, 1949
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Includes literature collected at Tacoma Boat Show April, 1955, including Pacific Motor Boat Magazine, April 1949.
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Newspaper Clippings - Various, and Pacific Motor Boat Magazine, April, 1949
Includes literature collected at Tacoma Boat Show April, 1955, including Pacific Motor Boat Magazine, April 1949.
Newspaper Clippings - Looking Backward, News Tribune, and letter of response
Includes letter from Willits Canoe Company responding to Looking Backward column.
Miscellaneous Business Correspondence
Contains outgoing correspondence to clients regarding payment, inquiries to new tools, and request for payment after an explosion caused damage.
Includes clippings related to Kendall Willits, Willits Canoes, Tacoma and University Place.
Includes purchased canoes, Tacoma Yacht Club, Day Island Club Water Supply.
Ray Willits, Bess Willits, Florence Willits?, Ione Willits?
Includes photos of Ray Willits, Bess Willits, and of individuals who might be Florence Willits, and of individuals who might be Ione Willits.
Leonard Willits, wife Gunneld Bjarke, Lon Willits, Manis Willits
Includes photos of Leonard Willits, his wife Gunneld Bjarke, Lon Willits, Manis Willits.
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
Includes a photo of Earl Willits in the office of the Willits Brothers canoe manufacturing shop in Artondale, Washington on Wollochet Bay.
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 photos of Clyde Willits, his father Clinton Willits, grandfather Milton Willits, his wife Olive, children Clyde and Ruth.
Includes photo of Camp Willis, World War I.
Silver Heels Willits Brothers Sailboat
Includes photo of Willits Brothers Sailboat Silver Heels.
Includes a photo of one of the Willits Brothers manufacturing a canoe.
Includes photo of a load of cedar for canoes on Rucker Brothers' car and trailer in front of Willits Brothers Shop, Day Island, Tacoma on September 20, 1955.
Shirley Clifford Beckim and Nancy-Anne Beckim with Car and Willits Canoe May 5, 1957
Includes photo of Shirley Clifford Beckim and Nancy-Anne Beckim with Car and Canoe taken May 5, 1957.
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.
Includes a photo of manufacturing a canoe.
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