Archives West Finding Aid

Includes views of the grounds, showing camp tents and building; views of cadets in formation on the grounds; individual and group photographs of cadets, female yeomen, and officers, including Commander Miller Freeman, Admiral Robert E. Coontz, 13th Naval District Commander and Admiral Hugh Delanty from Gray's Harbor; a crew team; and cadets working in various areas of the camp, including the kitchen, laundry room, barbershop, store, mailroom, storeroom, and shoe repair shop. The campus Varsity Boat Building is visible in one photograph.
Most of the photographs are by Webster & Stevens. One photograph of a banquet is by Jacobs Photo Shop and several photographs are unattributed, though are also possibly by Webster & Stevens.

Photographs largely depict groups of cadets and officers at the Naval Training Station posed in front of buildings and on grounds. Groups include the Naval Radio Corps; a marching band; S.A.T.C. Unit Company 1; First, Second, Fourth and Fifth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Seaman Companies; the Signal Corps; Chief Petty Officers, First Class; and an Officer Material School group.
Campus building depicted include Denny Hall, the Washington State (now Burke) Museum (housed in the former Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Forestry Building) and the Chemistry Building (formerly the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Fine Arts Building).

This album appears to be a personal photograph album, possibly belonging to female yeoman Anne Bathhurst of Seattle. Bathhurst served as chief yeoman at the Naval Training Station under Commander Miller Freeman at the U.S. Naval Training Station on University of Washington campus. One of the first women to volunteer, Bathhurst was active in the recruiting campaign at the Station.
The first section of the scrapbook consists of 69 5 x 7 inch photographs, 2 per page and many by Webster & Stevens. These include images sailing ships, buildings, including building construction, and tents, Girls Victory Carnival parade. Many of the photographs portray cadets and officers, some identified in handwriting on the photo: men pitching tents; football players and games; boxers; a marching band; cadets at the store, playing pool, and at the barber shop; and cadets and in their day-to-day activities. The next section of the album consists of 5 x 7 and smaller photographs, many of them snapshot type images of individuals, including officers and sailors from Portland and Tacoma, ships. Towards the back of the album are 12 pages of snapshots mostly of female yeomen
The album also contains ephemera, including three 1918 copies of "The Sub-Chaser," the newsletter of the U.S. Naval Training Camp, Seattle; clippings; a Naval Training Station tag with Anne Bathhurst's name; Christmas menu; typewritten poems and humorous notes; a booklet "Songs of the Soldiers and Sailors"; a letter from Admiral Coontz to enlisted women of the U.S. Naval Reserve Force, 13th Naval District delineating uniform regulations for women; a humorous 1918 "memo" to NNV bugler Leonard Oliver listing :orders and admonitions" regarding taking Anne Bathhurst out on a date; 3 medals, including 1 for a girls swimming victory at the Carnival on July 23, 1918; U.S. Naval Reserve tie tack and ribbon; and calling cards
Many of the individuals in the photos are identified by first name only. Those identified by full name include: Miller Freeman, Hugh Delanty, Herman Anderson, Ed Donnelly, Bernie Hodge, Captain D.A. Scott, Harry Thompson, Ernest Bradford, Henry C. Allgood, Kate Wortman, Jim Mason, Ivan Lee, B. Littell, Fred Heintz, John Cromwell, Len Oliver, Charles Noyes, Bob Lee, Mike Nolan, and Roy Maryatt.