Archives West Finding Aid

Collection consists of 24 black and white photographs and 2 tintypes, circa 1858-1902. The photographs are nearly all studio portraits, and most are card photographs. Many of the images have handwritten identifications and other notes attached or written on the back. The images include people identified as: Winema, of the Modoc people, Mrs. E. M. Lockhart, Capt. L. L. Williams, Dr. Henry Hermann, Samuel R. Thurston, Capt. O. C. Applegate, Jesse Applegate, E. D. Baker, Binger Hermann, Sam and Louisa Dement, Lafayette Grover, James W. Nesmith, and Grandma Yoakum. Other images in the collection include two photographic postcards of stagecoaches with handwritten information on the back; one reads "Last Meeting at White Point / 1887"; the other "Last stage from Ashland - going south." The collection also includes one black and white photograph identified in a handwritten note on the back as the blockhouse at Fort Umpqua in the late 1850s.