Photograph album (#1), string-bound paper, uncaptioned photographs of the Pacific Northwest Coast Ecology Field Trip, 1915

Series 3 holds Enid’s journal, two photograph albums, and a mounted photograph. Like her fellow students, Enid was required to keep a detailed journal of her observations of flora, fauna, and geological features in environments encountered while on the ecology trip. The other student course materials from ecology trips in the College Archives suggest that a photograph album was also required, and this collection includes two. One of those (album #1) was originally placed with her journal in the Student Papers record group and covers only the ecology trip. The other, unlike album #1, holds captions. It documents the ecology trip but also appears to have been used later to include photographs taken on other trips, such as the photograph taken by a commercial photographer of a group descending the Grand Canyon with a signpost documenting the date in 1917. That album had been placed in the Photograph Albums record group until 2021, when this personal paper group was created for the Enid Bancroft Sutton Swan materials.

Also in the series is one mounted photograph of Enid Sutton paddling an American Indian canoe, one of several used by indigenous guides hired to bring the group to otherwise inaccessible islands to study sea birds. The photograph albums include many photographs of the Quileute guides and their community, and of their villages. In some images, burial sites are clearly visible, with exposed remains and objects. In some of those, students are seen irreverently handling them. Enid remarks in a letter that this is patently wrong. These photographs are restricted from photographing or scanning.