Washington State Photograph Album, Puget Sound And Bainbridge Island

MILLS, HARRY & EMMA [COMPILED BY]

Publication: Privately photographed, 1911-1920, N P

First edition. 14 1/4" x 11 1/4" x 2" large flexible brown leather photograph album, album includes 575 original silver gelatin photographs with several Real Photograph postcards tipped-in as well, with annotations below or on the photographs in white ink. Most photographs are in black & white with a few in red-colored tint and a few hand-colored. The photographs measure from 1" x 1" to 5 1/4" x 11 1/4." Laid in is an envelope addressed to Harry Mills with two 2-cent stamps. This large photograph album was compiled by brother and sister, Harry & Emma Mills, documenting life on the Puget Sound from 1911 to 1920. Harry Mills was a Seattle office clerk and Emma was a teacher and librarian in Puyallup. Emma Mills' companion, Cassie Bigelow, is depicted in many of the photographs with Emma and Harry. Their fishing, camping and travel adventures take them to Flauntleroy Cove near Seattle, Lester, Washington (now a ghost town) to fish at Brush Creek, Long Lake for an Easter trip, Sequalitchew Lake near Tacoma, Rolling Bay, Bainbridge Island by the steamship Burton, Tulalip on the Puget Sound to visit Tulalip Indians, Wright Park in Tacoma in the winter, the Green River to hike and explore, and to Towanda, Pennsylvania and for views of the Susquehannna River, also in Pennsylvania where the Mills family originated. Also of note are the photographs and Real Photograph postcards of mining and logging camps such as those taken at Magrom, Washington, that includes a photograph of three loggers standing by a giant fir tree they are in the process of felling. many photographs of Index, Washington with the Cascade Mountains in the background, and photographs of the newly opened Columbia River Highway. Most of the Real Photograph postcards were taken by noted Vashon Island photographer Oliver Scott Van Olinda and Lee Picket of the Great Northern Railway Company. This album is a substantial visual record of life and travel in the Puget Sound area during the early years of the Twentieth Century. The photographs are in generally nice condition with a few beginning to loosen from the leaves. The album is rubbed on the covers and at the extremities and with light wear to the spine ends for an overall very good and serviceable album.

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