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Photo Album G
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Box 8
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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