- 93-2018.17.26
- Item
- ca. 1908-1949
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "a bit outside"
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "a bit outside"
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on back of print: "A Quatsino Siwash old type photo by W. Ben Leeson. The heads of the babes bound to make this shape."
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on front: "A Quatsino Spruce"
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on front: "Airplane Spruce cut from 97" x 24 cuts in all about 4700 feet The Great [?] np & p.co Quatsino BC"
Written on back:
"This is one of Early Bird Cove on the neck between the sawmill side and Mrs Agora[?] where one [?] is.
Curtis, a negro[sic] at the end of the log is the boon[?] all the boys like him.
8 hours none of them less than 5 cents a day board 1.00 meal three times as usual just started sugar ration.
4 there that you know one was only a boy when yo left pick him out.
As the present prices of spruce logs the tree is worth $1900 as soon as it hits the water. The Donkey pulls it in about 4 hours. The log the boys are standing again[sic] just sailed through the woods a few minutes before we took the picture."
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Signed on front: "Copyright in Canada by B.W. Leeson"
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "bad print of the saw mill"
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.
Ben Williams Leeson
Big group 1908 - 1st July picnic[?]
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "1908"
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on back of print:"No 1. 'Chief Caselus.' Chief of the Quatsinos, West Coast, Vancouver Is."
Children in front of carving & village
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "Gertrude & her little [?]"
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on front: "Greetings from Quatsino"
Group standing in front of village
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "In Quatsino Yarrow[?]"
Looking toward the settlement at June Landing
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "Looking toward the settlement at June Landing"
Maquinna at Quatsino - Greetings from Quatsino
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on front: "Maquinna at Quatsino Greetings from Quatsino"