- 93-2018.17.45
- Item
- ca. 1908-1949
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "No. 33 'Lady Marcas' Native Tyee woman of the West Coast Van Is."
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "No. 33 'Lady Marcas' Native Tyee woman of the West Coast Van Is."
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "No. 24 'Apples' A well known native of Quatsino Sound"
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on front: "Mrs Lim[?] West Coast Native"
Part of Ben 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"
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on the back: "Taken up at the mine. You may know some of them."
Maquinna at Quatsino - Greetings from Quatsino
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on front: "Maquinna at Quatsino Greetings from Quatsino"
Looking toward the settlement at June Landing
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "Looking toward the settlement at June Landing"
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "In Quatsino Yarrow[?]"
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Group standing in front of village
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on front: "Greetings from Quatsino"
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "Gertrude & her little [?]"
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Children in front of carving & village
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."
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Big group 1908 - 1st July picnic[?]
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "1908"
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