Series F-353-4 - Leslie Traeger photographs and correspondence

• Photographic materials
• Textual records

1 cm of textual records
ca. 140 photographs

The original prints and negatives were in the custody of Leslie Traeger, son of William H. Traeger who appears in some of the photographs. Some time around 1920 William moved to California, where Leslie was later born. In 1998 Leslie Traeger began a correspondence with Jerrold Dennis Mutter, Charles Doering's great-great-grandson, and he sent Mutter these copies of photographs and other documents relating to Charles Doering.

Series consists primarily of photographs relating to the families and friends of Charles Doering and Henry Traeger at Hat Creek Ranch ca 1912-1913. Traeger was the head brewer at Doering's brewery in Vancouver from 1900, and the Traeger family lived in Doering's old house on the brewery site at 262 E. 6th Ave. The Traeger were frequent visitors to Doering's Hat Creek Ranch property, and Traeger's younger son, Leslie, stayed at the ranch as a child to recuperate from illness.

The photographs date from ca. 1912-1913. They are copies of the originals and includes prints (file 2) mainly relating to the Traegers' visits to Hat Creek Ranch; and photocopies / print-outs (file 3) that include scenes from both Hat Creek Ranch and and the house at East 6th Ave. in Vancouver. The copies were made by Henry Traeger's grandson Leslie between 1998-2008 for Doering's great-great-grandson Jerrold Dennis Mutter. Leslie's father was William Traeger, Henry's eldest son, who appears as a youth in some of the photos. Many of the images include Leslie Traeger's annotations and descriptions. The series includes correspondence between Traeger and Mutter relating to the photographs and other documents that Traeger sent (for these other documents, see series 5).