Unidentified People, Unknown Dates

Photograph

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Lacey Museum

Name/Title

Unidentified People, Unknown Dates

Entry/Object ID

2007-012.A290N

Description

Unidentified people, unknown dates. These nineteen black and white film negative strips were created for the Lacey Leader newspaper. These images were created using many different film rolls, so many of the physical numbers on the strips are repeated several times. For the purposes of this description, these strips will be grouped according to which film roll they appear have originally come from. Each of these groups will be assigned a lower-case letter to go along with the physical numbers on the strips (ex: 1a, 2a, 3a, 1b, 2b, 3b, etc.) to help differentiate between images. The images in group "a" show a woman (Karen Fraser) holding a cat while looking through books at a library, and a second woman writing in a ledger at a library circulation desk. Image 20a shows Karen Fraser holding a cat and looking at a book stack. She is standing. Image 21a shows a similar scene, but Ms. Fraser is kneeling down and looking at a book she is holding in her right hand. Image 22a also shows Ms. Fraser kneeling down while looking at the book, but she has turned to face toward the camera. Image 23a shows Ms. Fraser looking down toward a ledger at a library circulation desk. She is holdng a pen in her right hand approximately one foot above the ledger. Another woman is working behind the circulation desk, but she is facing away from the camera. Image 24a shows Ms. Fraser writing in the ledger. The library employee is also visible in this image. Image 25a is very similar to the previous image, but the library employee is not visible in this image. Image 26a shows Ms. Fraser looking up from the ledger and laughing. The images in group "b" show a man with glasses and a mustache (Jerry Herman) seated at a desk in an office. He is wearing a sweater vest and tie. There is a calendar hanging behind Mr. Herman which shows October, 1979. Image 8b shows Mr. Herman reading a document. He is holding a pen in his right hand and the bottom corner of the page he is reading with his left hand. Image 9b shows Mr. Herman having turned back the back he was holding onto. He is still looking down. Image 10b shows Mr. Herman looking up at the camera. Images 11b through 14b are nearly identical to image 10b. The images in group "c" show a man laying on the floor of an office while speaking on the phone and a woman playing piano. Image 7c shows a man laying on the floor of an office and speaking on the phone. His right foot is resting up on a briefcase or similar item. This image is oriented vertically. Image 8c is nearly identical to the previous image, but it is oriented horizontally. Image 9c shows a woman seated at a piano and manipulating some small objects on top of the piano. Imge 10c shows the woman playing the piano. The image was captured from the woman's right-hand side, and her hands are visible as she plays. Image 11c again shows the woman playing piano, but the photographer has moved to their right. In this image the woman's hands are obscured behind the body of the piano. Image 12c shows the woman laughing. Image 13c shows the woman looking up at the seet music setting on the piano. Image 14c shows looking down toward the piano keys. The images in group "d" shows a woman with a button-up blouse with a coniferous tree design sitting in a chair in what appears to be a living room. Image 38d shows the woman from the mid-torso up. Her head and body are oriented toward her left. Image 39d is very simlar to the previous image, but the woman's head is turned slightly more toward the camera. Image 40d shows the woman from the knees up, and she is looking directly at the camera. Image 41d is nearly identical to the previous image, but it is underexposed. Image 42d is very similar to image 40d, but here the woman's head is tipped slightly to her right. Image 43d is similar to the previous image, but the woman has turned her face slightly toward her right. The images in group "e" show a man in glasses and a jacket working at a desk in an office. He has a number of objects and documents in front of him on the desk, including: a calendar, a small spiral-bound book with tables in it, and a document which reads at the top "DAMITIO." Damitio Insurance in an insurance company in Thurston County. Image 22e shows the man looking up toward the camera and smiling. Image 23e shows the man looking downward and writing something. His mouth is open slightly. Image 24e is very similar to the previous image, but the man's mouth is closed. Image 25e is nearly identical to image 24e. The images in group "f" show a man wearing a tie with stripes and a floral pattern who appears to be setting the format for a newspaper or advertising medium. Image 34f shows the man looking down at some small sheets of paper or a similar item in his hands. A portion of a tilted work table is visible at the right-hand side of the image. Image 35f shows the man looking up at the camera. Image 36f shows the man again looking down at the sheets in his hand. He has turned slightly toward his right. Image 37f shows the man again looking toward the camera. His mouth is very slightly open. The images in group "g" shows a man in an office and a woman typing on a typewriter at a desk. Image 33g shows a man wearing a button-up shirt shirt with a design made up of many three-dimensional rectangles. He is smiling and standing in front of some wall-mounted shelves. Image 34g shows a woman seated at a desk in front of a typewriter. Her face is completely obscured by her hair, and her arms appear to be under the desk. Image 35g is very similar to the previous image, but the woman's face is partially visible. In this image she is typing with one hand. Image 36g is very similar to the previous two images, but the woman is typing with both hands. Image 37g is very similar to the three previous images, but the photographer has either zoomed in or moved closer to the woman. The images in group "h" show a young woman in glasses seated at an octagonal wooden desk with several large books on it. One of the books is in front of her, and she is looking toward the camera. Image 35h appears to show the woman in mid-blink. Image 36h shows the woman smiling at the camera with her head tipped slightly to her right. Image 37h shows the woman with a slightly sad expression on her face. Image 38h shows the woman in mid-blink again. Her mouth is slightly open. Image 39h appears to show the woman laughing. she is smiling and looking downward. Image 40h shows the woman again looking toward the camera and smiling. The images in group "i" show children participating in an Easter egg hunt in a large park. Image 35i shows some foliage, inclusing one large tree in the top right corner. The left half of this image is cut off. Image 36i shows three children grouped near the center of the image. There are four other children at the right-hand edge of the image. There is a building visible near the top right corner of the image. Image 37i shows a child bending down to pick up an Easter egg. One other child is at the left-hand edge of the image, and the small building from the previous image is visible at the top of this image. Image 38i shows one child bending over to pick up an Easter egg, and a second child running by. A third child is running in the background. Image 39i shows a child bent over and putting an Easter egg into a bag. This child is wearing a hood. Image 40i shows a child bending over to pick up an Easter egg. There are approximately 12 other children visible in the far background. The images in group "j" show a woman seated at an outdoor table with a large, two-tone umbrella extending from the table top. There is a tall wooden fence behind her, and there is a cup on the table in front of her. Image 13j shows the woman looking off to the right of the camera. Image 14j is nearly identical to image 13j. Image 15j shows the woman blinking and maybe speaking. Image 16j shows the woman looking toward the camera. Image 17j shows the woman looking again off to the right of the camera. The images in group "k" show approximately 12 people viewing many different flower arrangements on a table, and a man and a woman posing with a single large rose in a vase. Image 2k shows the group of approximately 12 people viewing the flower arrangements. Image 3k shows the man and the woman (Lois Parpala) posing with the single large rose. Ms. Parpala is wearing a nametag which also reads "OLYMPIA ROSE SOCIETY." Both Ms. Parpala and the man are looking down toward the rose. Image 4k is very similar to the previous image, but the man is looking toward the camera. Image 5k is virtually identical to image 4k. Image 6k shows a close-up view of the rose. Ms. Parpala and the man are partially visible in the background. The images in group "l" show a man (W.H. "Bill" Garson) in a suit and striped tie posing for a photo. There is a button on Mr. Garon's lapel which has a large letter "G" at the center, and spelled out around the edge of the button is "... ARSON FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE - REPUBLICAN." The first letter of the last name is obscured by a glare. Images 42l through 1l are nearly identical. The images in group "m" show approximately twelve people seated around a large table. Hanging on the walls are several religious pieces of art, including one depicting the Last Supper. Image 7m shows the people seated at the table. There is what appears to be a blackboard at the left-hand edge of the image. Image 8m again shows the people at the table. The painting of the Last Supper is visible on the wall. Image 9m shows the people seated at the table, and the blackboard is visible at the right-hand side of the image. The images in group "n" show a sign which reads "IN CASE OF FIRE 'Simply exit with the same reckless abandon that occurs every afternoon at quitting time.'" Images 5n through 7n are virtually identical. The image in group "o" shows a number of people working in what appears to be a sorting/cleaning operation for an agricultural or seafood product. The image is very faded. Karen Fraser is a former mayor of Lacey. The library in which she is shown (group a) is likely the Lacey Village Shopping Center location of the Lacey Library. This was the location of the Lacey Library from 1976 to 1991. The man shown in group "b" is Jerry Herman, a former Lacey City Planner. W.H. "Bill" Garson (group "l"), of Tenino, was a Republican elected to the Washington State House of Representatives in 1980. Printed along one long edge of each of these film negative strips is "KODAK SAFETY FILM 5063."

Made/Created

Date made

1967 - 1981

Notes

Film Size: 35 mm Medium: Acetate

Lexicon

Search Terms

People, City of Lacey, Lacey Library, Lacey Leader, Easter

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Karen Fraser

Person or Organization

Jerry Herman

Person or Organization

Ed Bagley

Person or Organization

W. H. Garson