J.W. Thompson photographs, 1952-1959.

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J.W. Thompson photographs, 1952-1959.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/440810216

Photographs of Indians of western Washington State, mostly taken on reservations. Subjects include individual and family posed portraits, school photographs, and images of dancing and ceremonies, fishing and fish preparation scenes, woodcarving, and basket weaving. Tribes depicted: Chehalis, Chinook, Duwamish, Lummi, Makah, Quileute, Quinault, Suquamish, Swinomish, Tulalip, and Yakima (Yakama).

1,670 slides.

Museum of History and Industry

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SNAC Resource ID: 7537769

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Thompson, J. W. (John W.), -1978

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J.W. Thompson was a Seattle botanist and teacher. In 1943, Thompson, who was one of the best field botanists in the western U.S., and the owner of the best private herbarium and botanical library in the Pacific Northwest, gave both his herbarium and library to the University of Washington Dept. of Botany. In his retirement, Thompson began a second career as a photographer of Pacific Northwest Indians, taking thousands of slides of the Native people of Washington State. J.W. Thompson died in 1978...