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[women picking peas]
Creation Date: Sep. 2, 1937Catalog ID: 1943.42.63168Call Number: Curtis 63168; album 127 p. 1Anitrate negative and photographic print in album, showing three women picking pea pods from tall bushes in a field , Pacific County, near Raymond Washington, Asahel Curtis, photographer, Sept. 2, 1937. Photographer's record indicates that the three women are Native Americans ("Indian Girls"). Large baskets hold the harvested peas. The caption in the photograph album 127 reads: "Picking fresh peas to be shipped to Eastern markets, Raymond Wn." -
[Moran Academy School for Boys]
Creation Date: Nov. 15, 1921Catalog ID: 1943.42.42479Call Number: Curtis 42479nitrate and safety negative, north view of the main building and grounds at the Moran Academy for Boys on Bainbridge Island, Kitsap County, Washington, Asahel Curtis, photographer, November 15, 1921. The view of the school when arriving by boat. Students are not present. The Moran School was a private military style academy founded by Frank G. Moran in 1914. The Bainbridge Island school closed in 1933. In 1919, Frank Moran also founded a prestigious private school in Seattle (the Moran Lakeside School). One of series of 8 Curtis images related to the Bainbridge Island Moran School. -
[Asahel Curtis Examining Salmon]
Creation Date: ca. 1898Catalog ID: 2012.0.18Call Number: PORT/CUR 9photographic print, Asahel Curtis (standing on the right and wearing a cap) and another (unidentified) man are shown standing outdoors next to a building examining salmon (possibly to purchase), dated 1898. Asahel appears to be cutting a large fish which rests on a table. A business sign is partially visible on the building directly behind the two men. Several large empty wooden crates are visible. The locatiion is Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. Hand written on verso of matted print: "A Curtis - 1898 - Alaska" -
[Domestic Science Class at Lincoln High School]
Creation Date: May 12, 1909Catalog ID: 1943.42.13695Call Number: Curtis 13595glass plate negative, a group of girls and young women at Lincoln High School, Seattle, Washington, receive practical instruction in making tea or coffee in home economics class. The girls wear aprons and stand next to tables. Tea pots or coffee pots are being used in the lesson. Asahel Curtis, photographer, May 12, 1909. -
Cooper & Levy Outfitters, Seattle, 1897
Creation Date: 1913Catalog ID: 1943.42.26368Call Number: CURTIS 26368 Album 18 p. 3photographic print in album, First Avenue S. near Yesler Way, Seattle, King County, Washington. Provisions stacked, and men standing in front of Cooper & Levy "Pioneer Outfitters" Store. Along the street are bags and crates of provisions, behind them are stacks of sleds. On one side of the store is the Northern Pacific Ticket office. On the other side of Cooper & Levy is a sign for McSorley & Co., Harness and Saddlery, Asahel Curtis, photographer, Feb. 21, 1913. copy of 1897 photograph. -
[Fish Ladders]
Creation Date: Feb. 6, 1927Catalog ID: 1943.42.50991Call Number: Curtis 50991glass plate negative and photographic print, two different views of fish ladders mounted onto single glass plate negative; one view shows water flowing through the ladder with two men standing nearby and the other view shows the ladder without water with one man standing nearby, the location of the dam is not indicated (probably King or Skagit County, Washington), the client is Puget Sound Power and Light Company, Strang and Prosser, Asahel Curtis, photographer, Feb. 6, 1927. -
[logging railroad track near Lake Crescent]
Creation Date: Jun. 6, 1919Catalog ID: 1943.42.38061Call Number: Curtis 38061 Album 164A p. 77photographic print in album, view of logging railroad track near Lake Crescent, Clallam County, Wa, Asahel Curtis, photographer, June 6, 1919. The railroad was constructed by the U.S. Army Spruce Production Division to transport spruce logs to Fort Vancouver and other sites. -
Glacier Peak
Creation Date: Oct. 15, 1909Catalog ID: 1943.42.15868Call Number: Curtis 15768photographic print, Glacier Peak, from near the 7,000 foot level, looking across White Chuck, Asahel Curtis, photographer, Oct. 15, 1909. -
Tacoma Stadium Bowl Performance
Creation Date: Jun. 2, 1915Catalog ID: 1943.42.32710Call Number: Curtis 32710Glass plate negative, taken June 2, 1915, one of 2 plates forming a distant panoramic view of a celebration at Stadium Bowl, Tacoma, Pierce County, WA. The bowl is filled with spectators, and Stadium High School is visible in the background. A grandstand, with possibly 2 musical groups seated on it, is at the far end of the field. A large group of women wearing light and dark gymnasium suits stand in rows in formation on the field. A group of women in light colored clothing stand close together at the near end of the field. Asahel Curtis, photographer. -
[logging railroad track]
Creation Date: ca.1918Catalog ID: 1943.42.38067Call Number: Curtis 38067 Album 164A p. 73photographic print in album, view of logging railroad track and clearcut in Clallam County, Wa. Asahel Curtis, photographer, circa 1918. The railroad was constructed by the U.S. Army Spruce Production Division to transport spruce logs to Fort Vancouver and other sites.