Kiehl-Mann Photograph Collection
Series, 9945-01
- Dates
- 1891 – 1987
- Extent
- 68 digital image files (12 boxes) ;3.5 cubic_feet (12 boxes)
- Description
- The original Kiehl negatives and photograph albums are at the University of Washington Special Collections. Most of Kiehl's photographs were taken while he was stationed at Fort Lawton although images include ones of his family at Fort Lawton, Port Townsend and other locations. Photographs of the family camping, the children posing, and automobile trips, are included with photographs of buildings and work at Fort Lawton. The material documenting Fort Lawton was collected and donated by Sara Smith, the granddaughter of H. Ambrose Kiehl. Copy negatives of Ambrose Kiehl's glass plate negatives are included, along with an index in the form of a photocopy of his photo notebook. The originals are at the University of Washington Special Collections. The material was in the hands of another photographer who lived on Bainbridge Island, Frederick Mann, for a time. Mann's photographs for Fort Lawton taken in the 1970s during the adaptive reuse planning are also included in this collection. Mann's work as an architect for Millegan Jaddi Architectural Engineers of the Yesler Way Incline Bridge is included in this collection. Photographs and background material on Fort Lawton and Discovery Park, from various sources, is included in this collection as well. Copy negatives of buildings in Olympia and buildings in California from the mid-1950s are also in this collection. nnn
- Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
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