Photograph Collections

The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe has collected and archived a number of photographs and historical documents that are housed at the Tribal Library, in Blyn, Washington. The Tribe's collection is a compilation of historical documents, maps, photographs and artifacts collected and donated over the years from the Tribal Citizen community, historical and preservation organizations and other private contributors.
 
The Tribe's Photo Collection presents the historical images collected or scanned from photographs, slides, negatives and other media sources.
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The Cable Family Collection contains photographs contributed by Delores McConaghy. The collection depicts members of the Cable family in and around the Jamestown area in Washington State, and dating back to the early 1900s.
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The Cook/Kardonsky Collection consists of many family photos contributed by many members of hte family of Lillian Cook (b. 1898 in Sequim) and Louis Kardonsky (b. 1898 in Russia), who raised their large family, including Meredith, Alice Rose, Archibald Walter, Leo Arthur, Leona Jean, Vivian Violet, Annie Josephine, Kenneth Delgore and Arlene Irene, in Port Angeles.
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The Dorothy "Dottie" J. Hopkins/Lambert Collection consists of photos collected by Hopkins, as well as many given to her by her aunt Dorothy Hopkins Jensen, her father's (Hoppie) sister.
 
Tillie Lambert Hopkins and her husband Jack were the parents of Melvin David (Hoppie) and Dorothy A. Hopkins. The photos date back to the late 19th century, starting with Dottie’s great-grandmother Annie Jacob Lambert Reyes, and include many photos of Annie’s children and extended family from both her marriage to Charles Lambert and to Bartolo Reyes.
 
Annie and Charles’ daughter Tillie (Matilda) was Dottie’s grandmother, and she was very close to her great-aunties Marion and Cynthia Lambert and Mercedes Reyes. The collection also includes the children of Melvin (Hoppie) and Laverne Hopkins, (Dottie being the eldest of eight) and Dottie's children (eight). In addition, photos are included of other Lambert/Reyes family members and Dottie's maternal relatives who lived in Clallam County.
 
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The Ellis-Becker family descends from Ethel Stevens. Ethel descends from her parents Lyman Stevens and his wife Henrietta (Sea-litza), who was the daughter of When-a’hap and granddaughter of the Princess of Nanaimo.
 
Ethel had two husbands, and two sets of children – the Ellis children, Lyman “Matt” (1913-1994), Joel (1910-1943) and Archie (1915-1979) whom she had with William M. Ellis; and with her second husband Edwin Arthur Becker, Ethel gave birth to Edwin “Art” (1922-2000), Robert (1925-2011), Helen (1928-2015), and Charles (b.1932).
 
The Ellis-Becker Family Collection consists of many photographs donated by the Helen and Charles, as well as by the children of Matt Ellis (Donald Ellis, Betty Kettel, Mary Ross, Janet Duncan and David Ellis).
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These photos, donated by Walter S. Reyes, are from the family of Walter’s grandfather Elmer Reyes, the son of Annie Jacob Lambert Reyes and Bartolo Reyes.
 
Elmer Reyes and his wife Hulda (Penny) had two sons – Elmer “Spark” Reyes (9/14/1923 – 3/6/1978) and Walter “Bud” Reyes (12/25/1924 – 3/19/1993). Walter “Bud” and his wife Joyce had four children – Gary and Leah Johnson, JoAnn Sott, and Walter S. Reyes.
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The Fitzgerald-Chubby collection contains pictures, blueprints and documents. Included in the collection are images of life in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley including the Fitzgerald Mill Company; and family photos from the Chubby, Sullivan and Fitzgerald families. The information covers the years from 1900 to 2000. The collection was contributed by Kathleen (Fitzgerald) Duncan and Liz (Geraldine Fitzgerald) Mueller.

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The photographs of the Florence Reyes MacGregor family include 6 generations. They begin with her mother Annie Jacob Reyes (1861-1946), a full-blooded Jamestown S'Klallam, and include Florence (1898-1978) and her siblings and 4 generations of her descendants. Florence had 10 siblings, 3 children, 11 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and, at the present date, 8 great-great-grandchildren.
 

Visit the MacGregor Family Collection Pages to learn more about the family through the generations...
 
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Phillip Harner is the son of Benjamin Harner, whose mother, Eva Sparks Harner, was the daughter of Fanny Sarah Sappi-yi and Charles William Sparks. Fannie's father, according to research done by Phillip's sister Eva, was Chief Kay-he-nys, whose English name was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson was descended from the Duke of York's brother General Gaines (Yah-kwi-e-nook), who signed the 1855 Treaty of Point No Point.
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Historic family photographs of the Johnson Family were contributed to the Project by Ethel Rose Zwanziger. The images show members and friends of the Johnson Family around the Jamestown area in Washington State. Other photographs in the collection depict Wilfred Johnson while serving in the military.
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The Lowe Family collection contains photographs of the Lowe family depicted mostly around the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. The collection was contributed by Mike Lowe.
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The Margaret Collier Collection consists of photographs of Margaret Collier and friends during the early 20th Century. Margaret Collier was from the Chubby Family. The photographs depict family and friends in the Jamestown area, including Tribal citizens from other Tribal families (Edith Johnson Cusack and Harriette Hall Adams, for example). The Margaret Collier Collection was contributed by Margaret Collier’s daughters, Anita Russell and Lorraine Reeves.
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The Martha Merchant collection contains photos collected by Wallace Rapp and depicts family members who lived in the Jamestown and Forks, Washington, area in the early 1900’s. The family is descended from ha-que-nilth, the fourth son of ste-tee-thlum, whose daughter siahtsa, married Samuel Irwin. Their daughter, Martha Elizabeth Irwin married Ivory Foss Merchant in 1874 and had five daughters—Rose, Maud, Olive, Delphine and Elizabeth. Martha and Ivory homesteaded on the west side of the Olympic Peninsula. Much of the town of Forks is on land donated by the Merchants. Martha later married William Maybury. The Palmer, Rapp, Sands, and Bowlby families are descended from Martha.
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cicm?hán (Cheech-ma-han) is the given Klallam name for the man who the settlers referred to as Chetzemoka, or the Duke of York. He was the Chief of the principal S’Klallam village of qatáy (today known as Port Townsend), and a signer of the 1855 Treaty of Point No Point. cicm?hán had two sons and two daughters. His eldest son was known by local settlers as the Prince of Wales. Prince of Wales’ eldest son took the name David Prince. David Prince married Elizabeth Hunder, and they had several children - Oliver “Buck” Prince, Lillian Prince Sullivan, Ruby Prince George, Betty Prince Holden, Mildred Prince Judson, and Lyle Prince. Lyle, who died in 2017, was the last full-blooded Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal citizen. This family were the ancestors of many, many Jamestown citizens and descendants; many of whom are quite active in the present day Tribe and its culture.
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George Adams is from the Woodman family. His father was Richard S. Adams, who was known as Richard S. Woodman as a young man. George’s mother was Portuguese, but she left when George was young, taking his brothers Ted and Jim with her. George was born in Port Townsend and grew up on Woodman Road with his father, sister Dolly and brother Don. After spending 4 years in Cushman Hospital with tuberculosis as a child, he returned to the Olympic Peninsula, and spent his working years in local mills. These are photos collected throughout his life.
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