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Ben Williams Leeson collection
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Moving on Quatsino

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"

Port Alice

Written on front: "Port Alice" written on back: "Port Alice BC looking across the plant from the hospital"

Ben Williams Leeson collection

  • 93
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1908], [ca. 1972]

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

Salmon in trap

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."

No. 64 "The Village Gossip"

Written on back: " No. 64 "The Village Gossip" West Coast BC Native at home. See no. 69 Send for free print of whole collection to choose from Guaranteed direct-first from original negatives"

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