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Louie Marian Conklin photograph albums, approximately 1897-1909
Overview of the Collection
- Collector
- Conklin, Louie Marian, 1872-1909
- Title
- Louie Marian Conklin photograph albums
- Dates
- approximately
1897-1909 (inclusive)18971909
- Quantity
-
2 albums (22 photographs, 39
photographs); 2 unmounted photographs (1 box)
1 memorial service brochure - Collection Number
- PH0017
- Summary
- Two albums of Oregon town and wilderness scenes and portraits of the family and friends of Louie Marian Church Conklin, a teacher active in the civic life of Salem, Oregon, and Grants Pass, Oregon. Also includes some American Indian portraits.
- Repository
-
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
-
Selected images can be viewed on the Libraries' Digital Collections website. Permission of Visual Materials Curator required to view originals. Contact Special Collections for more information.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Mrs. Louie Marian Church Conklin was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on October 10, 1872, where Mr. and Mrs. Church were missionary teachers. The family later moved to Greenville, Michigan. After graduating from Oberlin College in Ohio, Louie became a teacher in the state school for the blind in Lansing, Michigan, where her father was superintendent. Later she moved to Oregon and took a position in the school for the blind in Salem, where she remained for three years. She married Arthur Conklin, a widower and real estate agent from Grants Pass, Oregon, on November 10, 1904. She became a mother to her husband’s two children from his previous marriage and also had three children with Mr. Conklin. She was active in church, education, and civic affairs.
In early 1909, Mrs. Conklin became ill with a cold and subsequently suffered a stroke on March 9, that rendered her partially paralyzed. She passed away at her home in Grants Pass on March 26, 1909, at the age of 37. Funeral services were held at the Baptist church, where she was a member. She was survived by her husband, children, her mother Mrs. Frances A. L. Church, and two brothers.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Oregon views album includes images of Oregon towns and wilderness scenes and also includes a train capsized in a river, and lumbering and fishing scenes.
The Louie Marian Church album includes photographs of Louie Marian Church, her friends and their activities. Images include Amos Earl Voorhies, publisher of the Grants Pass Daily Courier who later established Grants Pass’ first radio station, KUIN; trips to Crater Lake, Newport, and Colestine, Oregon; and the State Blind School in Salem, Oregon. Also included are portraits of American Indians.
Other Descriptive InformationReturn to Top
The Oregon views album is encased in a green suede cover with a floral motif. It includes the following instances where pages have been cut and removed: one page cut before page 1, three pages cut after page 1, one page cut after page 7, three pages cut after page 18, three pages cut after page 22. Photographs are pasted on verso and recto.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Alternative Forms Available
View selections from the collection in digital format.
Restrictions on Use
Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into three series: Oregon views album, Louie Marian Church album, and miscellaneous materials.
Processing Note
One Church album cover was removed in 2005 as it was disintegrating and unattached from the album's pages and was determined to hold little historic or informational value. Written inside the front cover was “One of your Mother’s photo books. Book made before 1904.”
Processed by Linda Wagner; processing completed in 2005.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Oregon views albumReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | item | ||
| 1 | 1.1 | Men fishing in a river in
Oregon |
circa 1899-1904 |
| 1 | 1.2 | View of people in a small clearing
surrounded by tall trees
Written on photo: Oregon timber.
|
circa 1899-1904 |
| 1 | 1.3 | circa 1899-1904 | |
| 1 | 1.4-5 | December 1901 | |
| 1 | 1.6 | Photograph of painting of Mount Hood,
Oregon |
circa 1899-1904 |
| 1 | 1.7 | Photograph of painting of Mount Shasta,
California |
circa 1899-1904 |
| 1 | 1.8 | circa 1899-1904 | |
| 1 | 1.9 | circa 1899-1904 | |
| 1 | 1.10 | circa 1899-1904 | |
| 1 | 1.11 | circa 1899-1904 | |
| 1 | 1.12-13 | Waterfall |
circa 1899-1904 |
| 1 | 1.14 |
Fish wheel with shore in
background
Herbert A. Hale
(photographer)
|
1899 |
| 1 | 1.15 | circa 1899-1904 | |
| 1 | 1.16 | Whiskey Creek, Oregon |
circa 1899-1904 |
| 1 | 1.17 | Whiskey Creek Bridge,
Oregon |
circa 1899-1904 |
| 1 | 1.18 | Photograph of painting of Mount
Rainier, Washington |
circa 1899-1904 |
| 1 | 1.19 | circa 1899-1904 | |
| 1 | 1.20 | circa 1899-1904 | |
| 1 | 1.21 | Steel Cliff, Oregon |
circa 1899-1904 |
| 1 | 1.22 | Waterfall |
circa 1899-1904 |
Louie Marian Church albumReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | item | ||
| 2 | 2.1a-2 | before 1904 | |
| 2 | 2.3 |
State School for the Blind, Salem,
Oregon
Written on album: Your mother [was] one of the teachers
there.
|
before 1904 |
| 2 | 2.4 | before 1904 | |
| 2 | 2.5a | Louie Marian Church, Mrs. Jones, and
pet cats |
before 1904 |
| 2 | 2.5b | Two cats |
before 1904 |
| 2 | 2.6a | before 1904 | |
| 2 | 2.6b | Earl Voorhies |
before 1904 |
| 2 | 2.7 |
Amos Earl Voorhies, publisher of
Grants Pass Daily Courier, with
his son Earl on his lap
Written on album: Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Voorhies [were] old friends
of Louie way back in Greenville, Michigan when Mr. Church was principal of [a]
public school there.
|
before 1904 |
| 2 | 2.8 |
Two men near a display of large
vegetables in front of the Rogue River Courier building
Written on album: 13 ft. corn, 6 ft. alfalfa, 125 lb. squash.
Former building occupied by Grant's Pass Daily Courier.
|
before 1904 |
| 3 | 2.9a | Mrs. A.E. Voorhies, Louie Marian
Church, and child
Written on album: On porch of Mr. & Mrs. A.E. Voorhies' home
summer when Louie visited them.
|
1903 |
| 3 | 2.9b | before 1904 | |
| 3 | 2.10 | before 1904 | |
| 3 | 2.11 |
Members of the Oregon Press
Association, Salem, Oregon
Written on album: Dad at extreme left with overcoat. Louie, not
then married at extreme right. Some of the members of the Oregon Press
Association and wives and friends at Salem, Oregon, when Dad was President of
the Association. Stopped here when returning from the State Penitentiary.
|
1903 |
| 3 | 2.12-14 | Crater Lake, Oregon |
1902 |
| 3 | 2.15a | Waterfall |
before 1904 |
| 3 | 2.15b | before 1904 | |
| 3 | 2.15c | before 1904 | |
| 3 | 2.16 | 1897? | |
| 4 | 2.17 |
Siletz Indian woman wearing twined
basketry hat and weaving twined basket, Siletz Reservation, Oregon
Hat is possibly Yurok style.
|
between 1890 and 1904 |
| 4 | 2.18 | 1897? | |
| 4 | 2.19 | before 1904 | |
| 4 | 2.20 | before 1904 | |
| 4 | 2.21 | before 1904 | |
| 4 | 2.22 | Tunnel on Southern Pacific Railroad
near Colestine, Oregon |
before 1904 |
| 4 | 2.23 |
A summer camp, Colestine,
Oregon
Written on album: ...Dad and other friends.
|
before 1904 |
| 4 | 2.24 | before 1904 | |
| 5 | 2.25 | View of forest, Colestine,
Oregon |
before 1904 |
| 5 | 2.26 | Louie Marian Church possibly carving
initials in the bark of a tree, Colestine, Oregon |
before 1904 |
| 5 | 2.27 | Mrs. A. E. Voorhies, young Earl
Voorhies, and Louie Marian Church sitting on a split rail fence, Colestine,
Oregon |
before 1904 |
| 5 | 2.28 | Earl Voorhies in woods next to creek,
Colestine, Oregon |
before 1904 |
| 5 | 2.29 | Miss Louie Marian Church in woods,
Colestine, Oregon |
before 1904 |
| 5 | 2.30 |
Portrait of Mrs. A. E. Voorhies, Miss
Louie Marian Church, child and man at a campsite, Colestine, Oregon
Written on album: Mrs. A. E. Voorhies, Miss Louie Marian Church,
and your Dad.
|
1903? |
| 5 | 2.31 | Tunnel on Southern Pacific Railway near
Colestine, Oregon
Written on album: 3/5 if [a] mile long and perfectly
straight.
Duplicate of item 22.
|
before 1904 |
| 5 | 2.32 | Woman standing on the front porch of a
house, Grants Pass, Oregon
Written on album: Our home at Grant's Pass, Oregon before
remodeled. Harold and Marian born here.
|
before 1904 |
| 5 | 2.33 |
First Baptist Church, Grants Pass,
Oregon
Written on album: Burnt down and a new church now built.
|
before 1904 |
MiscellaneousReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | item | ||
| 6 | 3 | before 1904 | |
| 6 | 4 | Teepee, possibly Umatilla tribe in
Umatilla, Oregon
Lee Moorhouse,Pendleton, Oregon (photographer)
|
before 1904 |
| 6 | 5 | Brochure of Mrs. Louie Marian
Conklin's memorial service |
circa 1909 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Buildings--Oregon--Grants Pass--Photographs
- Buildings--Oregon--Salem--Photographs
- Camp sites, facilities, etc.--Oregon--Photographs
- Indians of North America--Oregon--Photographs
- Lumber camps--Oregon--Photographs
- Newspaper editors--Oregon--Grants Pass--Photographs
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
Personal Names
- Conklin, Louie Marian, 1872-1909--Photographs
- Voorhies, A. E. (Amos Earl )--Photographs
Geographical Names
- Grant's Pass (Or.)--Photographs
