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PC 86
Cull A. White
Photographs and Negatives, 1861-1950


Anckerage Women Plastering New Home


Washington State University acquired the Cull A. White papers on two occasions. It received the initial accession in the 1950s and maintained it as Cage 203. Katherine Hartley of Freeland, Washington donated the second accession in June 1983 (MS83-22). Ling Jinqi and Robert W. Hadlow processed the collection in 1991. The photographs were separated in 1991 and constituted as this distinct photographic collection, PC 86. In 2002, Mark O'English prepared this guide from a list of images.

Number of containers: 3
Linear feet of shelf space: 1.5


BIOGRAPHY

Cull A. White was born on December 17, 1889 in Omaha, Nebraska. He later attended Miami University, in Ohio. White moved to Washington in 1909. Other than a brief time in military service during the first world war, White made this state his lifetime home. He was associated with the Coffin Brothers Sheep Company of Yakima from 1918 to 1936. White also worked for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation as an inspector at Grand Coulee Dam. He died on August 21, 1964 at his home in Elmer City. Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s White researched and wrote about the history of the peoples of north-central Washington. He focussed on the lives of Indians, especially the descendants of Chief Moses and Chief Kamiakin, and the lives of whites who inhabited the region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION

The collection consists of photographs and negatives by Cull A. White of images of the north-central Washington region.
The photographs of Cull A. White comprise the first two boxes, and are sorted alphabetically by subject. The five digit numbers, e.g. 92-093, following the image captions refer to copy negatives held by MASC. The third box comprises the negatives.

CONTAINER LIST

Box

Description

 

 

1

Photographs

 

 
 

Anckerage Women Plastering New Home

 

Anton, Park, son of Charles

 

Bannock Indian Woman, 112 years old

 

Bill, Matthew

 

Black Ferry, Early Gold Placer, Sheep in Pens

 

Bruno Hall for Girls, Spokane, Washington

 

Budd, Jack

 

Burge, Milt

 

Busload of Men

 

Canary, Martha Jane (Calamity Jane)

 

Cilico-Ki-Sas-Kin, Father of Coxit George 92-093

 

Cody, William Frederick (Buffalo Bill Cody)

 

Columbia River, April 10, 1945

 

Covington, Bob, at Portland Fair, 1905 92-096

 

Curlew, Billy 96-074

 

Curlew, Billy and Nat Washington, Cleveland Kamiakin and Cull A. White 92-071

 

The Dalles, Oregon, Pease & Mays Store

 

DeSmet, Father Pierre Jean and Indian Chiefs at Close of the Oregon War

 

Drumheller Flock Ranging, March 11, 1947

 

Drumheller, Jerome, c. 1885

 

Drumheller, Jerome and Grace Drumheller, California 1890s

 

Drumheller, Jerome with party, California, 1890s

 

Drumheller, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse, 1861

 

Dry Coulee, north of Soap Lake, rock carving 92-086

 

Dunn, Mrs. Millie, son James, and sister Bell Elwell

 

Entiat, Washington

 

Ephrata Depot

 

Father of the Methow Valley 92-082

 

Ferry "Okanogan" run by "Wild Goose Bill" Condon, 1880s 92-087

 

Fife, Thomas X. and John M. Fife, tombstone

 

Fort Colville, original near Kettle Falls

 

Fort Spokane Boarding School

 

Friedlander, Isabel, contact sheets, 35mm negs.

 

Friedlander, Nellie Moses, [?], Isabel Friedlander, and Mary Moses 92-092

 

Grand Coulee Dam, [1940s]

 

Heaverlo, Jesse and granddaughters Linda and Judy

 

Hil-ketsa, Pete, "Genuine Colville" 92-091

 

Howard, General O. O.

 

Hull, George, Yakima, 1890

 

Hunter, Ray and Joe Hodgen, Glenn Hunter and Jack Fuller and sheep on "Lady of the Lake", 1906

 

Hutchinson, Sam and Ben

 

Indian Policeman and family

 

Indian Teepee

 

James, Chief Jim

 

James, Chief Jim, Howard Ball and Henry Covington 92-100

 

James, Chief Jim, Cleveland Kamiakin and Billy Curlew 92-088

 

Jemima 92-101

 

Jennings, Chuck and Stage Coach vs. Air Mail, c. 1935

 

Joseph, Chief

 

Kamiakin, Cleveland and Billy Curlew, May 1, 1950 92-075

 

Kettle Falls, January 6, 1939 and July 19, 1941

 

Kettle Falls, Ward Post Office, Washington

 

LaFleur, Jennie Page (Daughter of Major Page) 92-065, 92-066

 

Lake Roosevelt, April 24, 1946 and March 28, 1950

 

Liptrap, Billy--Mule Freight Team

 

Liptrap, Charley and his sisters, Okanogan, 1890s

   

2

"Long Alec" (Skot-se-che-lawe) also called "Rolling on the Ground" 92-085

 

Longmire, Merritt

 

Lynch, Jennie and son Willy 92-098

 

McDonald, Dr. Archibald

 

McDonald, Benjamin and Angus 92-090

 

McKee, Ruth Karr, January 9, 1946

 

McWhorter, Lucullus V., Autumn 1940

 

Madeline, Mary, age 103 92-089

 

Moses, Chief, 1886 or 1892

 

Moses, Mary Owhi (wife of Chief Moses) 92-077

 

Moses, Nellie (daughter of Chief Moses) 92-076

 

Nelson, Jack and others

 

Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Harry 92-103

 

Nespelem

 

Nespelem George, Mrs. 92-079

 

Olney, Major Nathan, father of George Olney, 1854

 

Omak, Washington, July 2, 3, 4, 1917 92-084

 

Osborne, Charley, portrait

 

Owhi, Harry and [unknown] 92-083

 

Ox Team Display with Conestoga Wagon

 

Photos of Paintings of Indians

 

Paradis family of Colville

 

Paradis, "Grandpa," Colville

 

Pingston, Mrs. Alfred (Martina) 92-067, 92-068

 

Plan of Battle of the Four Lakes, of 1858

 

Plan of Colonel Steptoe's Battlefield on the Ingossomen Creek, of 1858

 

"Poker Joe," George Comedown, Robert Johnson, and Tommeo at Fort Spokane, 1910-11 92-078

 

Rain-in-the-Face, [Sioux Chief] 1885

 

Reeder, John, Freight Line, c.1900.

 

Republic, Washington, horse raid,

 

St. Paul, Cashmere (in middle) with friends 92-081

 

Sandpoint, Idaho, light plant

 

Schelly, John, Denton, Montana, hauling wheat, 1917

 

Seaton, Sam J., May 7, 1948

 

Sharkey, Fred J., portrait, December 5, 1949

 

Slada Lakes Trail, old irrigation flume, August 15, 1939

   
   
 

Smith, Hiram "Okanogan," cabin, with others

 

Smitkin, Mrs., and Mrs. Michele 92-094

 

Snively, Harry, Jr., and "Chinese Jim," family cook 1892, 1893

 

Snively, Harry, Jr., and hounds

 

Snively, Harry Jr., on Welsh pony, 1896

 

Standing Holy, daughter of Sitting Bull, 1885

 

Standing Rock Agency, Dakota Terr., Sioux Encampment

 

Stanton, Mathias, family at cabin, 1894

 

Steamer "Columbia" on Columbia River, 1900

 

Steamer "North Star," photo by Matsura

 

Steamer "North Star" and high bridge

 

Steamer "Okanogan," photo by Matsura, 1910 92-102

 

Stevenson, Rebecca and son Wade

 

Tintype, unidentified man

 

Tonasket, Antonia 92-099

 

Toppenish, Washington, Community Day, June 10, 1921 automobile "polo"

 

Troy, [Idaho], post office

 

Unidentified

 

Unidentified couple

 

Unidentified homesteads

 

Unidentified Indian men in traditional dress

 

Unidentified Indian woman

 

Unidentified landscapes

 

Unidentified portraits

 

Vantage Rock, part taken to Ellensburg

 

Wapato, Peter, with his cousin Arcot 92-104

 

Waring, Guy, "L 5" orchard, October 22, 1911

 

Webster, John McAdam (l) and Major McLaughlin (r)

 

Webster, John McAdam and unidentified

 

Webster, Winifred, daughter of J. McA. Webster

 

Wellpochese and family 92-095

 

White, Cull A., and friends at dinner 92-073

 

White, Cull A. and others in Indian and pioneer dress

 

Wild Horses herded to ferry on Columbia River, 1927

 

Yakima, Washington, Northern Pacific railroad stockyards, Harry Snively, Jr., shipping cattle

 

Yakima City, Washington, 1884

 

Yellow Wolf, Mrs. (Minnie?) 92-097

 

 

3

Negatives