Nootka Woman with Baskets for Sale

In Honour of Women's History Month

Nootka woman with baskets for sale that she made.

Associated Screen News Ltd.
193-
VPL #13440

A typewritten note on the back of the print states:

Jessie Wilson...has been making and selling baskets to tourists for more years than she can remember. She is a familiar figure with her baskets at Nootka, historically famous outpost on the West Coast of Vancouver Island where the Spanish and British late in the 18th century signed a pact giving the British formal possession of the Pacific Northwest by virtue of Capt. Cook's explorations.

Over 25,000 photographs are now available in the Special Collections online database. A selection of photographs from the Philip Timms, Leonard Frank, and Mattie Gunterman collections compose the majority of photographs which have been digitized.