Part Of

CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

O'Connor, Oonagh

Series Number

1

Item Number

1999.004.008

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

1995

Digitized Date

February 2017

Physical Description

1 cassette tape

Custodial History

Found in collection

Scope and Content

Recording is an oral history interview of May and Elmer Ellingsen by Oonagh O'Connor. Topics covered include how Elmer came to the island and met May; logging experiences; Cortes roads and telephone system; and living at Von Donop Inlet. Several humorous stories are related. There is a short summary of the interview, written by May Ellingsen, in the cassette case.

Subject Access

Logging

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

O'Connor, Oonagh

Series Number

1

Item Number

1999.004.009

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

1995

Digitized Date

February 2017

Physical Description

1 cassette tape

Custodial History

Found in collection

Scope and Content

Recording is an oral history interview of May Ellingsen by Oonagh O'Connor. May traces her family history and then talks about her childhood on Cortes and Hernando Islands; meeting and marrying Elmer; living in a float house at logging camps in Loughborough Inlet, Phillips Arm and Von Donop Inlet; and moving the house to Hague Lake in 1952. There is a short summary of the interview, written by May Ellingsen, in the cassette case.

Subject Access

Logging

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

Hentschel, Diane

Series Number

1

Item Number

1999.004.027

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

[ca.2003]

Digitized Date

February 2017

Physical Description

1 cassette tape

Custodial History

Found in collection

Scope and Content

Recording is an oral history interview of May and Elmer Ellingsen by Dianne Hentschel.

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

Abelson,Martha

Milton, Jill

Series Number

1

Item Number

1999.004.028

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

2003

Digitized Date

February 2017

Physical Description

1 cassette tape

Custodial History

Found in collection

Scope and Content

Recording is an oral history interview of May Ellingsen by Martha Abelson and Jill Milton. Topics covered include Manson family history; May's reminiscences about her childhood on Cortes; schools.

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

1

Item Number

1999.004.049

Material Type

sound recording

Date Range

1981

Digitized Date

February 2017

Physical Description

1 cassette tape

Custodial History

Found in collection

Scope and Content

Recording is of a sing-along led by Elmer Ellingsen interspersed with reminiscences.

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Creator

Guthrie, David

Series Number

2

Item Number

2019.013.006

Accession Number

2019.013

Material Type

multiple media

Date Range

[200?]

Physical Description

1 CD

Scope and Content

CD of a map of early Cortes property owners; a copy of the map is in the map cabinet.

Storage Location

CD/DVD album

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

3

Item Number

2019.013.015

Accession Number

2019.013

Material Type

multiple media

Date Range

2000

Physical Description

1 VHS tape

Scope and Content

One of two VHS tapes of May Ellingsen made on Sept. 24, 2000.

Storage Location

VHS tape box

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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CIMAS audiovisual collection

Description Level

Item

Series Number

3

Item Number

2019.013.016

Accession Number

2019.013

Material Type

multiple media

Date Range

2000

Physical Description

1 VHS tape

Scope and Content

One of two VHS tapes of May Ellingsen made on Sept. 24, 2000.

Storage Location

VHS tape box

Geographic Access

Cortes Island

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Part Of

Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0058

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1950s]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 8 x 5.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph showing the small island in the bay beside the house at Channel Rock, from the beach.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0059

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1950s]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 8 x 5.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of David Edwards in a rowboat at Channel Rock.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0063

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1950s]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 8 x 5.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of a boat anchored in front of Channel Rock. Gilean Douglas' weather station is in the foreground.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0068

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1950s]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 6.5 x 5.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the station for collecting weather data in front of the house at Channel Rock.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0084

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1958

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 8 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the small ornamental pond, in a natural depression in the rocky outcrop on which the house at Channel Rock stood.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0087

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1958

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 8 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of poppies blooming in one of the rockery beds in front Gilean Douglas' house.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0103

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1958

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 8 x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of the forsythia bush blooming in front of the barn in the big garden at Channel Rock.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0104

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1959

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 5.5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of David Edwards in front of Gilean Douglas' cabin at Channel Rock.

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Part Of

Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0105

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1960

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 8 x 5.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of David Edwards sawing wood outside the house at Channel Rock.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0106

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

1960

Physical Description

1 photograph print: colour; 8 x 5.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of David Edwards checking the weather station at Channel Rock.

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Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0107

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1960]

Physical Description

3 photograph proof strips: b&w; 10 x 3 cm

Scope and Content

Photographic proof strips with images of David Edwards and Channel Rock.

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Part Of

Gilean Douglas fonds

Description Level

Item

Fonds Number

1999.001

Series Number

18

Item Number

1999.001.0111

Material Type

graphic material

Date Range

[ca. 1958]

Physical Description

1 photograph print: b&w; 7.5 x 10.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph of Al Taylor (of Read Island) in front of the woodshed which was behind the house at Channel Rock.

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