- 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"
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"
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on the back: "Taken up at the mine. You may know some of them."