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- Photographic materials
- Textual records
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[ca. 1912-1916], 2008 (Creation)
Physical description area
Physical description
1 cm of textual records
ca. 530 photographs
ca. 12 postcards
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Archival description area
Name of creator
Custodial history
The scrapbook was originally created by Fred Duttweiler during his time as an employee at Charles Doering's Hat Creek Ranch in the 1910s. Duttweiler took the scrapbook with him when he moved to San Francisco after his time at Hat Creek. The scrapbook remained in the possession of the family until 2008. In that year Jerrold Dennis Mutter, Charles Doering's great-great-grandson, began a correspondence with Fred's daughter Pat Duttweiler, who sent him the scrapbook. Mutter donated the photos to SFU Archives in two transfers in 2024 and 2025.
Scope and content
Series consists primarily of photographs originally included in a scrapbook created by Fred Duttweiler, an employee of Charles Doering who lived and worked at Hat Creek in the 1910s (Duttweiler was manager of the ranch from ca. 1914-1919). Photos include of images of Hat Creek Ranch and its environs, the Cariboo Road, and Duttweiler's friends and outings in the area; Duttweiler's visit (or later move?) to San Francisco; photographs of Vancouver and Doering's brewery in Brewery Creek; Doering's farm at Fairburn near Duncan; a trip to Campbell River, BC; a trip to the Middle East ca. 1914 by Doering, his second wife Mary Reid, her son Basil, and Duttweiler; and postcards Duttweiler received from friends, including some in military service during World War One. The series also includes correspondence between Duttweiler's daughter Pat Duttweiler and Jerrold Dennis Mutter, Doering's great-great-grandson, relating to the transfer of the scrapbook from Duttweiler to Mutter in 2008.
The photographs were originally glued into a scrapbook. By the time it was received by Mutter (in 2008), it was in a physically crumbling state. Mutter removed the photos from the scrapbook (some with the page backing still attached) and they were transferred to the Archives in this loose form.
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Physical condition
Many photographs include backing from the pages onto which they were glued in the original scrapbook. Most images were transferred as individual, loose photos, but there are also whole pages or parts of pages that include multiple items. Individual photographs have been rehoused in encapsulation sleeves and stored flat in clamshells boxes (containers 353-2 and 353-3). Photos in sleeves are stored back-to-back if there were no annotations / information included on the back of the images. Photos transferred on multi-image pages are stored in file folders in a flat oversized box (container 353-4).
Immediate source of acquisition
Arrangement
With the exception of the opening image of the scrapbook (first photograph in file 2), it is not possible to reconstruct the original order of the images. The archivist has arranged the photographs into files based roughly on contents and locations (insofar as these can be identified). The main groupings are: personal (friends, postcards received, San Fransisco); Hat Creek Ranch and its environs; Vancouver and Doering's Vancouver Breweries; Fairburn farm; and trips to Campbell River and the Middle East. An additional "general" grouping (file 2 and file 3) brings together photographs whose locations cannot be identified with certainty or images from different groupings that are physically joined together on the same scrapbook page (e.g. front and back).
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
Some of the photographs were reproduced as prints by Jerrold Dennis Mutter; these copies are included in series 5, Mutter's research files.
Restrictions on access
Photos are open with no access restrictions.
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Photographs were made prior to January 1, 1949 and are accordingly in the public domain, following the rules set out in Canada's Copyright Act for photographs made by individual authors.
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- Duttweiler, Fred (Subject)
- Duttweiler, Pat (Subject)
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
October 2025: series first arranged and described.
Language of description
- English