- 93-2018.17.20
- Item
- ca. 1908-1949
Parte deBen Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "Prospecting on Alice Lake"
Parte deBen Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "Prospecting on Alice Lake"
Parte deBen Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "Do you recognize the one on the beach, sitting on the rocks? Mary's old girl 'Sally' she got 10 cents for this" A map is also drawn on back.
Parte deBen Williams Leeson collection
Print has illegible writing on the back.
Parte deBen Williams Leeson collection
Written on front: "Greetings from Quatsino"
Parte deBen Williams Leeson collection
Parte deBen Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "No. 8 'A Quatsino Grandad' Long head, native man of the West Coast Vancouver Is."
Parte deBen Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "No. 24 'Apples' A well known native of Quatsino Sound"
Parte deBen Williams Leeson collection
Written on front: "Moving on Quatsino" written on back: "They took two ? Over to put the hotel on but it ? On to one and only put that down about 1/3 chimneys were badly shook and had to be rebuilt"
Parte deBen Williams Leeson collection
Written on front: "Port Alice" written on back: "Port Alice BC looking across the plant from the hospital"
Ben Williams Leeson collection
The fonds consists of 66 photographic prints, some of which are hand-coloured, stamped “B.W. Leeson Quatsino, B.C.”, labelled on the front or back with explanatory information, or signed in ink. One print of a longhouse is stamped “The Leeson Collection Copyright 1914.” The photographic subject matter relates to British Columbia’s Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations and the British Columbia landscape. Also included is a copy of Portraits of the Indians of Quatsino by Benjamin W. Leeson (Kit #20) by Susan Roper, produced by the Research Project on Early B.C. Photography at the Vancouver Public Library around 1972, and 23 duplicate slides which accompany it.
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Parte deBen Williams Leeson collection
Parte deBen Williams Leeson collection
Written on back of print:"No 1. 'Chief Caselus.' Chief of the Quatsinos, West Coast, Vancouver Is."
Parte deBen Williams Leeson collection
Signed on front: "Copyright in Canada by B.W. Leeson"
Parte deBen Williams Leeson collection
Timber on Alice Lake one of Annie's old fellows
Parte deBen Williams Leeson collection
Parte deBen Williams Leeson collection
Written on front: "copyrighted"
Parte deBen Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "July 1928 Taking salmon out of a trap[?]. During our trip to Port Renfrew. We had a huge one thrown over on to our boat."
Parte deBen Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "a bit outside"
Parte deBen Williams Leeson collection
Written on the back: "Taken up at the mine. You may know some of them."
Parte deBen Williams Leeson collection
Written on front: "The Mills at Port Alice BC"