Mrs. Mabel (Lowe) Christensen posed with one set of the great many totally handmade dolls that she made over the years. The angel at the top of the community Christmas tree each year was, for many years, Mabel's handmade angel.
Mrs. Mabel (Lowe) Christensen posed with one set of the great many totally handmade dolls that she made over the years. The angel at the top of the community Christmas tree each year was, for many years, Mabel's handmade angel.
Mabel Christensen standing beside the beautiful arbutus tree on the beach at Stag Bay, Hernando Island, near the former site of the white canvas house. There was also a good well there.
This photograph was donated to May Ellingsen by Buster and Mabel Christensen.
Scope and Content
Mabel Christensen standing beside the beautiful arbutus tree on the beach at Stag Bay, Hernando Island, near the former site of the white canvas house. There was also a good well there.
Fonds consists of one scrapbook with 20 pages of photographs depicting Cortes Island people and places. Photographs, with penciled captions, are pasted onto the pages. Pages have been interleaved for conservation.
There are also nine loose photographs of relatives from a later accrual, and a file of textual records from a third accrual.
Eleanor (Christensen) Milne is a third generation Cortes Islander. Her parents are Mabel (Lowe) and Buster Christensen; her grandparents are Henry and Lydia (Heay) Hague. The Christensen/Hague families lived in the Manson's Lagoon area.
Custodial History
Album was donated to CIMAS by Eleanor Milne in 2004, and an accrual of nine photographs was donated in 2019.
Textual records were donated anonymously to the Museum in 2021 and have been described as part of this fonds as they are Milne/Hague family records.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of one scrapbook with 20 pages of photographs depicting Cortes Island people and places. Photographs, with penciled captions, are pasted onto the pages. Pages have been interleaved for conservation.
There are also nine loose photographs of relatives from a later accrual, and a file of textual records from a third accrual.
Series consists of one scrapbook with 20 pages of photographs depicting Cortes Island people and places. Photographs, with penciled captions, are pasted onto the pages. Pages have been interleaved for conservation.
Series consists of one scrapbook with 20 pages of photographs depicting Cortes Island people and places. Photographs, with penciled captions, are pasted onto the pages. Pages have been interleaved for conservation.
"Four generation portrait. (L to R) Mrs. Hague (grandmother), Frances Lowe (daughter), Mrs. Heay (great grandmother), Mabel Lowe (mother). Mrs. Heay came to Cortes Island in the early 1890s and lived with her son Horace Heay (brother of Mrs. Hague) in the home he built at the mouth of Manson's Lagoon. In 1895 Mrs. Hague brought her daughters and stayed there too for a time until the Hague home was built on Manson's Lagoon." (from May Ellingsen Historic Photograph Collection: Album 2, p. 19). There is also another copy of this photo (2007.001.562) which has been digitized.
"Four generation portrait. (L to R) Mrs. Hague (grandmother), Frances Lowe (daughter), Mrs. Heay (great grandmother), Mabel Lowe (mother). Mrs. Heay came to Cortes Island in the early 1890s and lived with her son Horace Heay (brother of Mrs. Hague) in the home he built at the mouth of Manson's Lagoon. In 1895 Mrs. Hague brought her daughters and stayed there too for a time until the Hague home was built on Manson's Lagoon." (from May Ellingsen Historic Photograph Collection: Album 2, p. 19). There is also another copy of this photo (2007.001.562) which has been digitized.
