Charles R. Pratsch Photographs, 1888-1913

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Pratsch, Charles Robert
Title
Charles R. Pratsch Photographs
Dates
1888-1913 (inclusive)
Quantity
18 containers., (7 linear feet of shelf space.), (916 items.)
Collection Number
PC 18
Summary
Glass negatives, lantern slides, and photographic prints record all facets of woodswork, milling and shipping, as well as fishing, sealing and other maritime activities of Grays Harbor, Washington (State). The cities of Aberdeen and Hoquiam are pictured from their earliest times of sawdust and wooden streets. Also included in the collection are 64 portraits which record the Quinault Indians during the 1880s and 1890s, with many wearing treaty and trade adornments.
Repository
Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research use.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Charles Robert Pratsch was born November 17, 1857 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, son of Charles August (born 1833, Leipzig) and Catherine Anna Dostman Pratsch (born 1837, Lancaster, Pennsylvania). Moving westward he left Iowa at the age of 25 with his brother-in-law, Lester L. Darling, and in 1884 the two homesteaded adjacent claims on the Wishkah River in the Grays Harbor country. After establishing claims they were joined by the elder Pratschs and their daughter, Mrs. Darling. Upon arrival Pratsch's parents entered the business life of the new community of Aberdeen (platted in 1883 and organized as a town in 1885). C. A. Pratsch was appointed postmaster of Aberdeen in 1886 and served in that position until 1889. He built the Pioneer House, later, the Del Monte, a wood frame hotel, in 1885, and in 1889 built a bakery and confectionary, known as Mrs. Pratsch & Co., across the street from the hotel. While Charles Robert occasionally worked in the hotel, he was soon involved in a project of his own: photography. He had persuaded a photographer named Tolman to teach him the techniques for $300. In a "mugbook" of 1890 Charles R. Pratsch is listed:

Photographer, F Street, between Heron and Wishkah. We are indebted to Mr. Pratsch for many of the subjects from which our Gray's Harbor and Aberdeen engravings were made, his collection of views, portraits and architectural subjects, being very fine indeed. Mr. Pratsch is at present erecting a new studio building, and by the time this volume is out of press, he will be prepared to conduct his business with the aid of greater and better facilities than before. He attends to all classes of work, such as portraits, views, buildings, copying, enlarging, reducing, etc., and charges very reasonable prices. ( South-western Washington; its topography...and pen sketches of their representative business men... Olympia: Pacific Publishing Company, 1890.178.)

In his later years Charles Robert Pratsch was caretaker of the Laidlow Island duck preserve. He died in 1937 at the age of 79 a few days after walking into a slowly moving train. His son, Fred Pratsch, acquired the negatives and made prints which he reproduced as oil paintings. (for example see 111 35)

In the collection are many negative and lantern slides that are indentified as the work of Colin S. MacKenzie (1879-1912). MacKenzie, a deputy sheriff in the Grays Harbor area, had become a studio photographer following a back injury suffered while fighting a fire. See Alfred J. Hillier Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 35:3 (July, 1944) After his death at the hands of John Tornow, his photographic files and materials were given to Pratsch by the family, for MacKenzie had often used Pratsch's equipment and facilities. Colin's name is spelled as MacKenzie on his photographs, in the 1910 census, and in a 1907 Pacific Monthly article using his photographs, but newspaper reports of and after his death popularized McKenzie as the spelling.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The collection consists of 584 glass negatives, mostly 8 x l0 inches; 299 lantern slides, many hand colored; and 33 miscellaneous photoprints.

The collection is more than ample in recording all facets of woodswork, milling and shipping, as well as fishing, sealing and other maritime activities of Grays Harbor. Shipping is preserved in extensive photographs of the coasters, lumber ships and schooners that plied the coast and rivers and sailed to all parts of the world. Aberdeen and Hoquiam are pictured from their earliest times of sawdust and wooden streets; their history progressing through canoe, rowboat, horse, oxen and steam periods to the advent of electricity. Here is the industrial, civic, and cultural growth of these cities and other area communities. Here also is the full range of the economy, with business leaders and laborers, mill offices and lumber camps, fraternal organizations and unions, city residences and small farms.

Of great interest and value to scholars are the 64 portraits and photographs of the Quinault Indians, who in the 1880's and 90's were not far removed from their earlier aboriginal state, harvesting the ocean and beaches for a livelihood, many with flattened heads and wearing treaty and trade adornments.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Preferred Citation

[Item Description]. PC 18, Charles R. Pratsch Photographs. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The collection logically falls into three series: glass negatives, lantern slides, and miscellaneous prints.

Series I, the glass negatives, is composed of 584 negatives varying in size from 8 x 10 inches to 5 x 7 inches. The 5 x 7 plates have been separated and placed at the end of the larger plates; they are numbered 551-584. Each of these negatives has been cleaned and printed under laboratory conditions, providing prints which become the basic finding aid for the negatives, as well as being available for display. The prints and the negatives have been arranged by subject and numbered sequentially.

Series II is 299 lantern slides arranged by subject and numbered sequentially. Many have been hand tinted, apparently by a Seattle "artist," and over half are based on negatives in Series I. The major exception is the 64 portraits and scenes of the coastal Indians of Washington State.

Series III: Miscellaneous Prints is 33 items which, though related to Aberdeen, lumbering and shipping, were either not Pratsch or MacKenzie photographs or are not represented among the negatives and lantern slides in the collection. Several of these, in fact, are related to the occupation and interests of Fred Pratsch, son of Charles R. Pratsch. While the photographs have been arranged in subject groupings to facilitate research, certain identifiable characteristics have been elaborated upon and incorporated into a Proper Name Index. This index provides access to all identified persons, locations, and especially names of vessels serving the Aberdeen lumber trade. While many of the person identifications are based on notations of Fred Pratsch's, the names of ships have generally been deduced from close examination of the prints and negatives with a magnifying glass.

Acquisition Information

The Charles R. Pratsch collection of photographs was purchased from Fred Pratsch of Aberdeen, Washington in 1971.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Series 1: Glass NagativesReturn to Top

The description of each photograph is based on a close examination of the print and the negative, including captions scratched or painted on the negative; notes provided by Fred Pratsch on the prints he made as subjects for his oil paintings; a list of shipping scenes prepared by Harry Dying of the San Francisco Maritime Museum; and identifications by Robert Weinstein.

Container(s) Description Dates
Portraits
item
1
Manning Hill and Eagle bike on road to Hoquiam
1893
2-3
Mary B. Pratsch
4
Mary B. Pratsch and daughter, Jenny
5-8
Charles Robert Pratsch
9
Catherine Pratsch
10-13
Portraits
14
Charles August Pratsch
15
Portrait of a man
16-17
Heater and Engrin, Civil War veterans, Westport.Title: All is well
18-25
Group portraits
26
Pratsch Family portrait
1888
27
Man photographing ladies by stream
28-34
Outdoor group portraits
Cities and Towns
item
35
Aberdeen
1889
36
Aberdeen
1904
37
Aberdeen, with Grand Theater in center
1907
38
Business section, Aberdeen
1907
39
Business section, Aberdeen
40-47
Aberdeen
48
Cosmopolis
49
Hoquiam
1906
50
Montesano?
51
Steamer WISHKAH CHIEF leaving Wishkah Street dock, Aberdeen
1890
52
Wishkah and F Street, Aberdeen
1890
53-54
Heron and G Street, Aberdeen
July 4, 1892
55
Heron Street looking west, Aberdeen
1892
56
F Street between Wishkah and Heron, Aberdeen. Walter and Main Circus. Wallace Pratsch on bicycle
1895
57
Aberdeen winter street scene, after fire of 1903
58
Heron Street, Aberdeen
July 4, 1908
59
Heron Street at bridge on the Wishkah River, Aberdeen. Steamer GENERAL MILES
60-61
Heron Street dock, Aberdeen. Steamer CRUISER
62
Aberdeen street scene, firemen spraying water in air
63-64
Procession
65
Street scene, Fourth of July celebration?
66-67
Decorated fire trucks
68-70
City viewed from hill
71-72
Montesano
City Buildings & Residences
item
73
Stewart Creek Water Works, Aberdeen
1895
74
Grays Harbor Electric Company car barn, Market and E Street, Aberdeen
1906
75
East Aberdeen School
76-79
Building Aberdeen high school
1892
80
Girls' gymnastics class
81
Washington Hotel, Heron and K Streets, Aberdeen
1905
82
Elks Club, Aberdeen
1907
83
Hayes and Hayes Bank, Aberdeen
1908
84
Heron and H Streets, Aberdeen State Bank
1908
85
Heron and G Streets, Red Cross Pharmacy, Aberdeen
1908
86-87
Aberdeen City Hall
88
Mitchell Building, Aberdeen
89
Hoquiam Hotel, Hoquiam
90
Office of American Mill Co
91
H. J. Cooke store and street corner
92
Post office
93
St. Joseph's Hospital, Aberdeen
94
Crescent Hotel, Ninemire & Morgan Building
95
F and First Street, Aberdeen. Methodist Church and Sam Benson [Sam Benn] house on hill
96-97
Outdoor ceremony at the church
98-99
Westport fog horn and light house
100
Chehalis Produce Company
101
Pacific Fruit and Produce Company
102
Grocery store, [---]ing- Kinsel Co.,Helling Kinsel Col. Inc. 317 E.Wishkah, Aberdeen, WA
103
Mrs. C. A. Pratsch store, interior, post office in corner
104
Auditorium or theatre interior
105
Wilson Bros. & Co. office interior
May, 1909
106
Aberdeen saloon interior
107-108
The Casino, Eagle Dance Hall, owned by Ed Dolan. Bartenders, girls and band
109-120
Buildings, schools, apartment houses, residences
121
Aberdeen cannery
122
Conservatory, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
123
Tallest telephone pole in northeast Aberdeen
124
Backyard garden
125
Small garden pond
Farms
item
126
Billy Gohl's place on Indian Creek going to Westport.[William Gohl]
127
Mrs. McGregor's House
128
Farmhouse and auto, auto has sign: "Famous Cedarville Ranch, Chehalis Co., 5 4 10 acre tracts, for sale by 0. J. Engen, Aberdeen."
129-138
Farms and farmhouses
139
Bordens Ranch, Wishkah River
1891
140
Wilsons Camp
141
Guffey Ranch, Wishkah Falls, Washington
142-145
Farms and farmhouses
Athletic Clubs
item
146
Square Deal, Aberdeen baseball club
1890
147
Square Deal, Aberdeen baseball club
148
Aberdeen baseball club
1891
149-150
An Aberdeen baseball club
151
Aberdeen and Montesano baseball clubs, 1891.Aberdeen players, 1-r: Williey, Stapleford, Sherwood, Keghler, Van Tassel, H. Hayes, S. Bowes, Balcomb, unidentified; Montesano players, 1-r: Lyons, Geissler, Has, Graham, Knauss, Roberts, Starr, McDougall, Hall, Dick Trask.
1891
152
Cosmopolis baseball club. Dave Patterson, I. Not, Ray Nives, Dick Trask, Sherwood, Jim Lyons, Jack Link, 2 unidentified
1891-1892
153
A Seattle baseball player
154-156
Aberdeen Ball Park
1907
157
Aberdeen High School track team
1907
158-160
Aberdeen High School basketball team
1907
160a
Aberdeen High School basketball team
1905
161-163
Aberdeen High School football team
164
Aberdeen High School football players: Gross, Falkner, Blackwell, White
165
Aberdeen High School football team
1905
166
Football team
Coast Guard, Police, and Fire Departments
item
167
U. S. Coast Guard crew with boat, Westport
1904
168
Aberdeen's first water works at F Street
169
Aberdeen policemen
170
Firemen: Walker, L. L. Darling, Frank Pratsch, Fred Balaue, Bill Anstie, Ab. Demished, Birt Keith, Bill Pierson, Joe Niece, Nick Lankins, Jerry Gagner, L. L. Maley, Chas. Kealier, Mark Payett, Floyd Creech, Frank Wyman
171-174
Fire engines and firemen
175
Fire engines and firemen. (Copyright C. S. MacKenzie.)
1907
Musical Bands, Unions, and Fraternal Organizations
item
176
Aberdeen Cornet Band. Joe Graham on bass drum, Van Tassel is 6 ft. 6 in. tall man
1890
177
Aberdeen City Band at GAR grounds, Westport
178
Aberdeen Cornet Band in front of Toklas and Kaufman, Dry Goods and Clothing
179
Aberdeen Cornet Band on a dock
180
Hoquiam Concert Band playing on the steps of the Hoquiam. Hotel
181-182
Knights Templars. Mat Peasley, Dr. Randalf, top row; "Drawbucket" Johnson, 2nd row, 2nd from left
183
Sawmill and loggers convention on deck of the SKOOKUM
184
Bricklayers and Masons Union, no. 11, Aberdeen
1911
185
Painters Union, no. 526, Aberdeen. J. J. Robinson and his son are in the front row
1911
186
International Hod-Carriers and Bricklayers Union no. 146, Aberdeen
1911
187-188
Teamsters and Deliverymens Union, Local 170, Aberdeen
1911
189
Housepainters Union, Local 1076, Hoquiam
1911
190
Team Drivers Union, local no. 93, Hoquiam
1911
191
Pile Drivers Union, local no. 12088
192
Gravediggers Union (?)
193
Electrical Workers Union
Jetty and Shipyards
item
194-197
North jetty, Grays Harbor, under construction
1913
198
Lindstrom Ship Yard
199
Shipyard
200
McWhinney Ship Yard, Aberdeen
201
Mathews Ship Yard, Hoquiam. Schooner VIGILANT at left
202
Lindstrom Ship Yard
203
Ole Hansons spar yard in foreground; Lindstrom yard with steam tug RANGER and schooner under construction in background
204
The launching of the stern-wheeler MONTESANO with two brass bands
1890
205
Lindstrom Ship Yard, with JOS. L. EVISTON on the ways
206
A bow-first launching at the Lindstrom Ship Yard
207
Launching the schooner J. M. WEATHERWAX
1890
208-213
Grays Harbor scenes
214
Bay View Lumber Mill, South Aberdeen
215-216
Aberdeen harbor scenes
SHIPPING SCENES
item
217
Steam tug towing barkentine across Grays Harbor bar
218
Steam tug JOHN CUDAHY towing schooner ENDEAVOR
219
Steam tug JOHN CUDAHY towing schooner
1890
220
Steam tug DARING towing schooner CARRIER DOVE after viewing Roosevelt's Great White Fleet
1908
221
Steam tug PRINTER towing out two-masted schooner
222
Steam tug ASTORIA towing schooner ESTHER BUHNE
223
4-masted schooners under tow
224
Schooner METEOR under tow
225
Loaded 3-masted barkentine under sail
226
Schooner W. H. MEYER under tow
227
Schooner CHARLES A. FALK aground on Copalis Beach
1909
228-229
Yacht RESTLESS, owned by R. R. Pratsch
1904
230-231
Sailboat AVILON
232
Whaleboat rigged with sail opposite city
233
Stern-wheeler SKOOKUM going out to see the Great White Fleet
1907
234-236
Stern-wheeler HARBOR BELLE
237
Stern-wheeler HARBOR QUEEN, schooner Watson A. West
238-242
Government steamer COLUMBINE
1907
243
Steamer in the Hoquiam River?
244
Tug PRINTER, tug JOHN CUDAHY astern
1907
245
Tug DARING
July 4, 1907
246
Steamer GENERAL MILES backing into channel
247
Steamer CRUISER, West Mill in background
248
Steamer and barge
249
Tug with Aberdeen Lumber and Shingle Company in background
250
Tugs and excursion boats in Aberdeen harbor
251
Steamer in channel, lumber mill on far bank
252
Tug RANGER
253
Tug TRAVELER
254
Tug RANGER
255
Freighter BESSIE DOLLAR
256
Steam schooner CLAREMONT loaded with lumber
257
Steamer CHEHALIS
258
Steamer TOLEDO
259
Naval steamer?
260
Decorated motor launch
261
Row boat near fish nets
262-263
Underwater diving operations
264
ALEXANDER, gill-net fishing boats, cannery dock with nets drying
265
Gill-net fishing boat KID
266
Schooner CHARLES R. WILSON at anchor
267
Schooner R. C. SLADE
268
Schooner at lumber mill, Aberdeen
269
Steam schooner CLAREMONT loaded with lumber, bow line attached to dock
270
S. S. INDRAVELLI
271
Stern-wheeler MONTESANO at Montesano dock
272
Barkentines MARY WINKELMAN and NEWSBOY at dock
273
Barkentine MARY WINKELMAN at dock
274
Westport dock, Steamers CLAN McDONALD, CITY OF ABERDEEN, TYPHOON, and CHEHALIS
275
Schooner W. J. PATTERSON at dock
276
Barkentine ARAGO
277
Schooner CHARLES HANSON at Union Mill dock
278
Schooner CHARLES A. FALK at lumber mill dock
279
Four-masted schooner at dock
280-281
Schooner ESPADA docked at mill
282
MELVILLE DOLLAR at mill dock
283
MILVILLE DOLLAR with ESPADA tied to dock
284
Frieghter BLACKHEATH
285
West Mill wharf, schooners W. J. PATTERSON and FORESTER, with WATSON A WEST astern
286-287
Steam tug IOLA, barge, and steam schooner NEWBURG at dock, R.C. SLADE in background
288
Steam schooner NEWBURG at Slades dock, schooner CENTRALIA in the rear
1908
289
Schooner A. B. JOHNSON and other schooners at dock
290
Lindstrom's ship yard, mastless schooner SADIE at outfitting dock and steam tug JOHN CUDAHY in foreground
291
Cooney's Mill dock, Cosmopolis, with steam schooner SVEA and steamer HARCROFT
292
Steam schooners SANTA MONICA and SANTA BARBARA at dock
293
Schooner ORIENT and barkentine WRESTLER at dock with three-masted schooner CHAS. A. FALK being towed out
294
Schooner MAID OF ORLEANS, barkentine EUREKA and others at West Mill dock
pre-1899
295-296
Barkentine NEWSBOY at near dock and schooner W. J. PATTERSON at far dock, steam schooner NORWOOD astern
297-298
Schooners FANNIE ADELE, C. H. MERCHANT and others docked at mill
299
Steamers JOSIE BURROWS, TOIWO, and one other loading passengers after funeral at Aberdeen cemetery
1888
300
Schooner OCCIDENTAL and brigantine GENEVA at West Mill dock steamer T. C. REED docked at far right
301
Steam schooner NORWOOD, schooner ESPADA
302-304
Ships at mill docks
305
Steamer HARCROFT at dock
306
Ships at dock near old West Bridge, Aberdeen
July 4, 1907
307
Schooner COMET and steam schooners CENTRALIA and WHITESBORO and others at dock
308
Schooner A. B. JOHNSON, steam schooner G. C. LINDAUER, and others at dock
309
Schooners MELROSE and ALLEN A., steamer RUSTLER (Hoquiam) at Hoquiam Mill dock
1906
310-311
Schooners at West Mill dock, Aberdeen
1889
312-313
American Mill, Slade's dock, schooner WATSON A. WEST, steamer NEWBURG. (Photo by MacKenzie)
1908
314-316
Schooners CHARLES A. FALK and EDWARD R. WEST at dock; the sequence shows the steam schooner SANTA MONICA coming through the channel. Included is the steam schooner WILLIAM MURPHY. (Titled: Shipping scene, Aberdeen, Washington, copyright 1907, by C. S. MacKenzie).
317
Barkentine MARY WINKELMAN and schooners at mill dock, one four-masted schooner being nudged in by tug
318
Brigantine LURLINE and steam schooner GRACE DOLLAR at dock (MacKenzie photograph)
319-320
Stern-wheeler SKOOKUM, steam schooner GRACE DOLLAR, a schooner and the barkentine, WRESTLER, all at dock, with a small launch passing in channel
Lumbering Scenes
item
321
Millers Dam and Wishkah Falls
1892
322
Log dam and spillway for boom pond
323
Eureka & Klamath River Railroad, three trains loaded with redwood logs, one a work train
324
Polson's trestle up the Humptulips River, log train with logs chained directly to trucks, Shay engine, number 564. (Al Coats Logging Co.?)
325
Shay engine (Polson's)number 2. (Al Coats Logging Co.?)
326
Oregon and California Railroad Company, three car train pulled by engine number 14, on a trestle near a small town.
327-343
Steam donkeys and their crews
344-345
Burst steam donkey
1910
346
J. Gillis Camp, Hoquiam
1889
347
Gillis' camp
348
Jim Gillis' camp, Hoquiam River
1890
349
Gillis' camp
350
George Keith's camp, Wishkah River
351
George Keith's camp, Wishkah River
1889
352
Philips camp, Johns River
1888
353
Payett camp
1888
354-355
Flowers camp
356
Redwood logging crew eating
1891
357
Gilbreth Skeen's camp
1888
358
Wilsons camp
359
Oxen, log and crew on roadway
360
Packhorses and crew
361
Hawkins camp
362
Logging scene
363-365
Clark and Miller crew
366
J. Gillis' camp
367
Blackwell's no. 2 camp
368
Oxen, log, crew and cooks on roadway
369
Roadway
370
Clark and Miller's roadway on the Wishkah River
371
Leon Weather's crew
372
10 ft. fir stump
1892
373-374
Group of men on large stump
375
Washington stump
376-377
11 ft. 3 in. stump.
378
Group of men on a large stump
379
Packers with horses in woods.
380-382
Mary Pratsch and children in forest
383-384
Man on fallen spruce tree, near Aberdeen
385
Timber scene on Fred Honley ranch near Wishkah Falls
386
Children (Ersral Stout, Floyd Stout, Fred Pratsch, Wallace Pratsch, Elie Payett) on fir log, Canyon Kort, near Aberdeen
1896
387-390
Groups of men among logs and stumps
391
Worlds Fair log
392-393
Matt Peasley on right, Billy Gohl at left, at logbucking contest
394-399
Men by cedar tree on Charley Creek
400
Men sawing eight foot fir tree
401
Felling fir tree with axes at Flowers Camp near Aberdeen
1888
402
Felling cedar tree on John River
1888
403
Three men by large log.
404
Cedar tree by Johns River.
405
Two men by cedar tree on Charley Creek
406
Bearded man by tree
407
Two men, one bearded, by tree (Fred Pratsch states this tree (11 ft. 6 in. diameter) sent to St. Louis World's Fair, by Hepfinger & Drummond).
1902
408-410
Loggers and trees
411
Fir tree
412
Four men and recently felled tree
413.11
Six armed men and felled tree
414-426
Lumbering scenes, loggers and forests
427
Bearded man by tree
428-437
Lumbering scenes and loggers
438
Automobile on road to North Beach
439-440
Reo on road by lake or river.
441-444
Roads in woods.
445-449
Wood scenes
Lumber Mills
item
450
West's first mill, burned in the 1880's
451-452
Weatherwax Mill and boom pond, later Anerson-Middleton
453
Weatherwax mill boom pond
454-465
Mills and boom ponds
466
American Mill on the Wishkah River
467
Cooney's Mill, Cosmopolis, Steamer HARCROFT at dock
468-469
Lumber on dock at Union Mill Co., steam schooners WASP and J. B. STETSON
470
Grays Harbor Commercial Co. sawmill
471
Lumber mill
472-473
Steam schooner SANTA MONICA at mill dock
474
Loading the G. C. LINDAUER
475
Lumber mill, yard and docks
476
Lumber mill, Lindstrom's ship yard in background
477
Lumber mill
478
Hoquiam Lumber and Shingle Co. sawmill
479
Loading lumber at the dock, steam schooner G. C. LINDAUER
Fishing and Hunting
item
480
Salmon scene at McGowan Cannery
481
One night's salmon catch, Grays Harbor
482
Salmon cannery dock at end of F Street, Aberdeen
483-484
Sturgeon catch
485-487
Fish at cannery
488-489
Fisherman on river bank. (positive)
490
Fishermen with catch in studio, Fred Hewitt, Ernie Phelps, Johnny McCook, and Colin MacKenzie
491-494
Studio scenes of fishermen and their catches
495
Trophy fish
496
Hunter with duck catch
497
Duck still-life
498
Armed hunters and dead bears in studio scene
Miscellaneous
item
499
Cows in meadow by river
Soo
Man in riding outfit and show horse
501-502
Man and show horse.
503
Man on horse
504-506
Man and show horse in front of livery stable
507-508
King and Queen and puppies
1894
509-510
Waterfalls
511
Mt. Shaster [sic], California
1888
512
Meadow
513
Change-making machine
514
Casket-lowering device
515
Wagon loaded with bed-rolls
516
Pacific and Oak Street, cows blocking road between Aberdeen and Hoquiam
517-519
Horse and carriage on road
520-521
Automobile on road
522-527
Bridges
528-530
Log footbridge over Humptulips River
1895
531
Harry Perkins riding Rudge bicycle in the surf on Westport beach
1892
532-533
Harry Perkins and others on Westport beach. Fred Pratsch, age two, in foreground
1892
534
Bathing in the surf at Westport beach
535
Bathing in Grays Harbor at Westport
1892
536
Bathing in Grays Harbor at Westport
537
Bathing in the surf
538-540
Clam diggers
541
Duck hunter in action
542-544
Ocean beach scenes
545-548
Coastal rock formations
549
Seal Rocks, San Francisco
550
Seal Rocks.
5x7 Plates
item
551-553
Charles R. Pratsch
554
Catherine Anna Pratsch
555
Lady's portrait. Emma Ida Pratsch
556
Gentleman's portrait
557-558
Mary Pratsch
559-562
Portraits of ladies
563-571
Portraits of children
572-573
Hunters and fishermen
574
Fred Hewett, fisherman
575
John O'Hare and Fred Hewett cleaning fish in camp
576
Ducks in shallow water
577
Sporting goods store interior
578
American Fall from Luna Island, winter. (snow-covered tree arch)
579
Grotto Geyser Cone.
580
Old Faithful Geyser.
581
Minerva Terrace.
582
Decorative border for oval portrait
583
Dinner in the photo studio
584
Schooners at dock

Series 2: Lantern SlidesReturn to Top

The lantern slide collection contains many duplicates of the larger plates, but of greatest significance are the 64 photographs of coastal Indians probably taken by MacKenzie. The slides are arranged in numerical order in three large slide cases. In case one are those numbered 1-100, case two, 101-200, case three 201-299. Slides that are duplicates of the glass negatives are indicated with the number of the glass negatives, such as 1331.

Container(s) Description Dates
Lumber Scenes
item
1
C. E. Burrows Company Dam
2
Millers Dam, Wishkah Falls
3
Log bridge
4
Log bridge and falls
5
Log boom pond (splash)
6
Steam donkeys and their crews
7
Steam donkeys and their crews
8
Steam donkeys and their crews
9-13
Steam donkeys and their crews
14
Polson Logging Company, Hoquiam. (train)
15
Train with logs
16
11 ft. 3 in. stump (MacKenzie photo)
17
Groups of men among logs and stumps
18
Groups of men among logs and stumps
19
Men by cedar tree on Charley Creek
20
Men by cedar tree on Charley Creek
21
Three men by large log.
22
Loggers and trees
23-28
One or two people by logs and trees
29-33
Groups of people on or near trees and logs
34
Lumbering scenes, loggers and forests
35
Lumbering scenes, loggers and forests
36-40
Men with saws and axes by logs
41-42
Automobile on road to North Beach
43
Road in woods
44
Wood scenes
45
Wood scenes
46
Horse and buggy on road through woods
47-49
Logging trails
50-51
Woods and river
52-54
Trains and track
55
Horse and carriage on road
56
Horse and carriage on road
57
Bridge
58
Log footbridge over Humptulips River
1895
59
Bridge
60
Two men by large tree roots
Miscellaneous
item
61
Aberdeen Ball Park
1907
62
Groundbreaking ceremony
63
Crowd near camp, flag and White and Davidson Grocery
64
Camp Quick Print, 5 loggers eating at table
65
Old man near other sighting device on beach
66
Man with stock of grain showing the height
67
Man smoking cigar and holding Saturday Evening Post
68
Vegetable display
69
Clouds
70
Beef hanging at the loading dock at the slaughter house
71
Tallest telephone pole in N. E. Aberdeen
Mills and Docks
item
72
Ships at dock near Old West Bridge, Aberdeen
July 4, 1907
73
Mills and boom ponds
74
GEORGE OF ABERDEEN, a launch at dock
75-76
American Mill, Slade's dock, schooner WATSON A WEST, steamer NEWBURG (Photo by MacKenzie)
1908
77
Schooners CHARLES A. FALK and EDWARD R. WEST at dock; steam schooner SANTA MONICA coming thru channel. (C. S. MacKenzie)
1907
78
Schooner COMET and steam schooner CENTRALIA and others at dock
79
Schooner A. B. JOHNSON and others at dock
80
Schooner MELROSE and schooner ALLEN A. at Hoquiam Mill and steamer RUSTLER (Hoquiam)
1906
81
Harbor scene (Photo by MacKenzie)
82
Stern-wheeler SKOOKUM, Steam schooner GRACE DOLLAR, 4-masted schooner and barkentine, all at dock, with a small launch passing in channel.
83
Lumber on dock, three masted barkentine opposite
84
Hoquiam Lumber and Shingle Company sawmill
85
Steam schooner SANTA MONICA at mill dock
86
Loading lumber on the deck of a steam schooner
87
Ships at dock of lumber mill
88
Harbor Dock (wharf scene)
89-90
Grays Harbor jetty
Shipping
item
91
Grays Harbor scenes
92
Grays Harbor scenes
93-94
Aberdeen harbor scenes
95-96
Harbor scenes
97
A bow-first launching at Lindstroms Ship Yard
98-99
4-masted schooner under tow
100-101
Loaded 3-masted barkentine under sail
102-105
4-masted schooners with sails set
106
Yacht RESTLESS, owned by R. R. Pratsch
1904
107
Yacht RESTLESS, owned by R. R. Pratsch
1904
108
Small sailboat
109
Stern-wheeler SKOOKUM, going out to see the Great White Fleet
1907
110
Stern-wheeler HARBOR QUEEN
ill
Stern-wheeler HARBOR BELLE
112
Freighter BESSIE DOLLAR
113
Freighter BLACKHEATH
114
Great White Fleet
115
Tug TRAVELER
116-117
Harbor scenes
118-120
Shipping scenes
121-123
Ship wreck scenes
Aberdeen and Cities
item
124
Aberdeen, with Grand Theater in Center
1907
125
Aberdeen, business section
126
Aberdeen
127
Aberdeen
128-129
Aberdeen
130
Hoquiam
1906
131
Scenic view of city on the river
132
Bridge
133
Bridge
134
Heron Street dock, steamer CRUISER, Aberdeen
135
Men building street
136-137
Street scenes during celebration
138-140
Residential streets
141
Street in Aberdeen
142-143
Street car and view of town
144
Laborers on construction train
145
Laborers on street corner
146
Fire engine, Aberdeen
Buildings
item
147
Aberdeen high school, under construction
1892
148
Washington Hotel, Heron and K Street, Aberdeen
1905
149
Elks Club, Aberdeen
1907
150
Aberdeen State Bank, Heron and H Street
1908
151
Red Cross Pharmacy,Heron and G Street, Aberdeen
1908
152
Aberdeen City Hall
153
Hayes and Hayes Bank, Aberdeen
1908
154
Hoquiam Hotel, Hoquiam
155
St. Joseph's Hospital, Aberdeen
156
City Water Works
157
Lumberman's Bank
158
Train depot
159
Fire engines and firemen
1907
160
Burnett Bros. Jewelers, Kaufman & Berliner and other stores
161
School house?
162-168
Individual houses
169
Grand Theater, Aberdeen
1907
170-174
Residential section
175-177
Churches
178
Power house?
179
Greenhouse, interior
180
Bank, interior
181
Small garden pond
182
Crew building silo
183
Excavation
184
Westport fog horn and light house and United Wireless Telegraph Company station
Children
item
185
Children riding mules
186-188
Photos of individual children
Farms
item
189-190
Farms and farmhouses
191-192
Farms and farmhouses
Coastal Scenes
item
193
Man photographing ladies by stream
194
Bathing in the surf
195
Clam-digging
196
Horses packed with hay on beach
197-199
Ocean beach scenes
200-205
Ocean land scenes
206
Coastal rock formations
207-209
Seal Rocks, San Francisco
210-213
Coast scenes
Waterfalls
item
214-216
Waterfalls
Hunting and Fishing
item
217
Fisherman on river bank
218-219
Studio scenes of fishermen and their catches
220
Men by large fish catch
221
Men with catch of ducks
222
Men cutting up seal?
223
Armed hunters and dead bear in studio scene
224-225
Men hunting and fishing
226
Men at camp
227
Fish at cannery
ANIMALS
item
228
Mules
229-232
Dogs
233-235
Animals
Indians
item
236
Indian village?
237
Che-poo, Indian woman
238
West-sup, Indian woman
239
Granny Mason, Indian woman
240-241
O'waata, Indian woman
242-257
Portraits of Indian women
258-268
Portraits of Indian men
269-272
Indian women carrying large baskets on back
273
Indian with horse and wagon
274
Makah Indian camp, Tatoosh Island
275
Clam digging
276
Funerary china
277-279
Miscellaneous portraits of Indians
280-287
Indian domestic scenes
288-289
Indian fishing scenes
290
Fishing scene, Neah Bay
291
Makah whaler
292-297
Fishing scene, Neah Bay
298-299
Indian fishing scenes

Series 3: Miscellaneous PrintsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
item
1
Foot of Heron Street, Aberdeen
8.5 x 13.5 cm. photoprint (postcard)
undated
2
Gun club
8.5 x 13.5 cm. photoprint (postcard)
1915
3
Log bridge over Wishkah River
8.5 x 13.5 cm. photoprint (postcard)
undated
4
Mining camp
8.5 x 13.5 cm. photoprint
undated
5
Pratsch & Co. Artist, no. 32. Wooden bridge
13.5 x 8.5 cm. photoprint (postcard)
undated
6
Two motorcyclists
8.5 x 13.5 cm. photoprint (postcard)
undated
7
Three motorcyclists
13.5 x 8.5 cm. photoprint (postcard)
undated
8
Shooting range bought 1923 (construction)
8 photoprints. 12.5 x 17.5 cm
undated
9
Dr. H. C. Watkins, Sr. on shooting range
12.5 x 17.5 cm. photoprint
undated
10
"Billy the Bear, the big game hunter, wore no shoes in summer"
18 x 11 cm. photoprint
undated
11
"Stewarts house torn down to build Robert Gray School,"
13 x 17.5 cm. photoprint
undated
12
Wishkah Falls Dam built in 1886 by Cy Blackwell
20.5 x 12.5 cm. photoprint
undated
13
Malinowski Dam, built 1902 as a 5 gate dam, rebuilt in 1917-1918 with 6 gates, not used after 1923.
12.5 x 20.5 cm. photo-print
1902-1917
14
Wishkah Boom Co. main river dam (Joe Malinowski in charge 1909-1924)
11.5 x 18.5 cm. photoprint
1917-1923
15
Malinowski Dam
8.5 x 14.5 cm. copy photoprint of #14
1917-1923
16
South bay shooting box
12 x 19 cm. photoprint
2789
17
Schooners OTTILIE FJORD and ESTHER BUHNE tied at dock
20.5 x 25.5 cm. photoprint
undated
18
Westport from the air
18.5 x 23 cm. photoprint
undated
19
Gun club
19.5 x 24.5 cm. photoprint
1925
20
Governor Rosellini and friend with fish
20.5 x 24 cm. photoprint
undated
21
Charter boat at Westport with catch
20.5 x 25.5 cm. photoprint
1965
22
C. A. THAYER at dock (Seattle?)
20.5 x 25 cm. photoprint
1955
23
C. A. THAYER at dock (another view of above?)
20.5 x 25 cm. photoprint
1955
24
Fred Pratsch's charter boat DOROTHY L
20 x 25 cm. photoprint
undated
25
DOROTHY L.
12.5 x 18 cm. photoprint
undated
26
DOROTHY L. and charter group with fish, Fred Pratsch in background
25 x 20 cm. photoprint
19608
27
Newspaper clipping from the Vidette, showing Charles R. Pratsch homestead in the Wishkah Valley in 1887
28
Pratsch homestead up Wishkah
13 x 21.5 cm. photoprint
1885
29
Aberdeen police force. Bill Pearson, Joe Graham, and Smith.
21 x 16 cm. photoprint
1892
30
Pratsch homestead
20.5 x 25.5 cm. photoprint
1890
31
R & R Yarder's tow-truck, photo by A. C. Girard, Aberdeen
16.5 x 21.5 cm. photoprint
1910
32
Sandison & Martintosh Photo. Aberdeen fire
17.5 x 22.5 cm. photoprint
1903
33
Another view of the Aberdeen fire
17.5 x 22.5 cm. photoprint
1903
34
Clipping: Seattle Scene: Memories of a champion bike rider by Frank Lynch re: Manning Hill and his bicycles.
1952
35
Hoquiam Mill 1906. Painting by Fred Pratsch after a photograph (1 309)
10 x 12.5 cm. color transparency
1971
36
Hoquiam Mill 1906. Painting by Fred Pratsch after a photograph (1 309)
20.5 x 25.5 cm. color photoprint
1971
37
Schooner O. M. KELLOG, Brigantine MONITOR, and Steamer MONTESANO
38
West Mill, Wishkah River, Aberdeen
39
Schooner MAID OF ORLEANS and Brigantine MONITOR
40
Schooner O. M. KELLOG, Brigantine MONITOR, and Steamer TRUCKEE
41
Schooner O. M. KELLOG, Brigantine MONITOR

Series 4: Alternative Images. Return to Top

A list of miscellaneous glass negatives and positives compiled by David Smestad in March, 1978 . (Number of similar photograph in main sequence in parentheses). Not indexed

Container(s) Description
item
49
30 men on large stump.
55
Old tree, river and sawmill.
61
Ships in port.
62
Man and horse.
67
Old tree, river and sawmill.
82
Family with oxen team in forest.
107
Loggers and oxen in forest.
148
Man and large tree.
164
Old car on road in forest.
205
Old sailing ship.
253
Road in forest.
282
City hall and fire wagons and crew.
322
Track team.
357
Waterfall.
371
Man and horse on log bridge.
374
15 men on stump.
385
Two old sailing ships.
412
House, people, old car with real estate advertisement.
424
Football team.
456
Football team.
485
Group portrait.
516
Portrait.
521
Girl in garden.
524
Girl in garden.
570
Ship in port.
573
Football team.
575
Man with axe and tree.
583-622
5x7 negatives of ducks (except 603 - man with fish) with prints

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Indians of North America--Washington (State)

Personal Names

  • Pratsch, Charles Robert --Archives (creator)
  • MacKenzie, Colin S.

Corporate Names

  • Historical Photograph Collections. waps (creator)
  • Quinault Indians--Portraits

Geographical Names

  • Aberdeen (Wash.)--History
  • Grays Harbor (Wash.)--History
  • Hoquiam (Wash.)--History

Form or Genre Terms

  • Glass negatives. gmgpc
  • Lantern slides. gmgpc