Photo Album D

Manufacturing a Willits Canoe c1921 Nine Canoes on Willits Brothers Car and Trailer C. Alexander in Canoe Powered by a Johnson Outboard Motor, 1924

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Photo Album D

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Box 11

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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

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Photos in this album are described in the Willits' Eastman #1A Autographic Kodak Jr., 1919 to March 12, 1940.

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