Walter Boychuk photographs

Walter Boychuk photographs, 1912-1961

Overview of the Collection

Photographer: Boychuk, Walter, 1886-1967
Title: Walter Boychuk photographs
Dates: 1912-1961 (inclusive)
19121961

1920-1945 (bulk)
19201945
Quantity: 12 cubic feet, (1,569 photographic prints in 12 boxes, 2 oversize boxes and 1 oversize folder; 738 photographic prints in 1 album; and 1,500 glass plate and film negatives in 9 boxes)
Collection Number: Org. Lot 977
Summary: Photographs taken by Walter Boychuk of Portland, Or., including both commercial and private work. Includes portraits and landscapes primarily from Oregon and Washington state, as well as photographs from two commercial projects: the Historic American Building Survey and the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco in 1939.
Repository: Oregon Historical Society Research Library
1200 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR
97205
Telephone: 503-306-5240
Fax: 503-219-2040
libreference@ohs.org
Access Restrictions: The collection is open to the public.
Additional Reference Guides: A survey of negatives taken by Walter Boychuk is available at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library, in the Boychuk collection file.
Languages: English.
Sponsor: Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Walter Boychuk (1886-1967) worked as a photographer in Oregon for half a century, making portraits of everyone from ordinary citizens to nationally known figures, including Sen. Wayne Morse, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lowell Thomas, and Norman Thomas.

Boychuk was born Oct. 25, 1886, at Galatia, Austria. He immigrated to Canada in 1903 and came to Portland in 1906, where he began working as a photographer around 1912. For a few years during the late 1920s, he was associated with photographer Frank I. Jones in Boychuk-Jones Studio. They did commercial photography for the Portland Commission on Public Docks, Port of Portland, and other clients. Beginning about 1930, Boychuk operated Boychuk Studio at various locations in Portland until 1949. At that time he estimated he had served 8,000 customers. He continued to work out of his farm home near Tigard in semi-retirement.

In addition to his portrait and commercial work, Boychuk also gained recognition for his architectural and scenic photography. He photographed the buildings designed by a number of prominent architects. In 1930, he was selected by a committee of the Oregon chapter of the American Institute of Architects to create a portfolio of Oregon landmarks for submission to the Pictorial Archives of Early American Architecture. This was a project of the Library of Congress, funded by the Carnegie Foundation. Boychuk also served as photographer for the subsequent Historic American Buildings Survey in the mid-1930s.

Based on his architectural work, Boychuk was named official photographer for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition at San Francisco. There he spent two months photographing fair buildings, inside and out and under different lighting conditions, in both black-and-white and color. He also was an avid mountaineer, skier, and member of the Mazamas mountaineering organization.

Although relatively little known compared with other Oregon photographers such as Ray Atkeson and Benjamin Gifford, Boychuk brought his artist’s eye and meticulous printing skills to a body of work that is among the best produced in the state.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Boychuk donated his photographic collection to the Oregon Historical Society about six months before his death in 1967. The collection represents the images he had retained until that time, and it provides a good sample of the kinds of photographic work he did during the course of his career. The images date from circa 1915 through the 1960s, but the bulk of the collection is from the 1920s through the 1940s.

Group 1 of this collection contains biographical material on Walter Boychuk and his wife, Anna, that was collected while this collection was being processed. Group 2 consists of the copy prints made from Boychuk’s original negatives; this representative sampling of his work was printed courtesy of a conservation grant from the Meyer Memorial Trust and contains photographs taken by Boychuk of various locations in Oregon and other states, portraits, ships and transportation, and other subjects, as well as his work for the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1930-1951 and the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco in 1940. Group 3 is a collection of signed, mounted prints of architectural images, which Boychuk made for the Pictorial Archives of Early American Architecture at the Library of Congress in 1930, and includes some produced for the Historic American Buildings Survey as well; these are annotated with his negative numbers. Group 4 consists of a printed booklet of photomechanical reproductions of Boychuk's photographs, entitled "Pictorial Oregon." Group 5 consists of an oversized album, titled “Pacific Northwest by Boychuk,” which provides a retrospective of images Boychuk made throughout his career, most identified in his handwriting and annotated with his negative numbers.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The Oregon Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Research Library prior to any use of reproductions. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use of reproductions may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright holders.

Preferred Citation

Walter Boychuk photographs, Org. Lot 977, Oregon Historical Society Research Library

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in the following groups and series:

Group 1: Walter and Anna Boychuk biographical materials, 1930-1940
Group 2: Prints from original negatives, 1918-1961
- Series A: Oregon locations (except Portland), 1918-1957
  - Subseries 1: Cities and towns
  - Subseries 2: Bonneville Dam
  - Subseries 3: Columbia River Gorge
  - Subseries 4: Coast scenery and lighthouses
  - Subseries 5: Mount Hood
  - Subseries 6: Eastern Oregon
  - Subseries 7: Lakes
  - Subseries 8: Mountains
  - Subseries 9: Rivers
  - Subseries 10: Waterfalls
- Series B: Portland, Ore., 1925-1951
- Series C: Other locations, 1919-1950
- Series D: Portraits, 1930-1961
  - Subseries 1: Men
  - Subseries 2: Women
  - Subseries 3: Groups
- Series E: Ships and transportation, 1912-1940
- Series F: Other subjects, 1918-1940
- Series G: Copy work, 1915-1959
- Series H: Historic American Buildings Survey, 1930-1951
  - Subseries 1: Residences
  - Subseries 2: Buildings
- Series I: San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition, 1940
Group 3: Vintage prints made by Walter Boychuk, 1922-1957
- Series A: Locations, 1930-1957
- Series B: Portraits, 1922-1957
- Series C: Historic American Buildings Survey, 1930-1951
Group 4: Pictorial Oregon: Twenty-Four Memorable Photographs by Walter Boychuk,1941
Group 5: "Pacific Northwest by Boychuck" photograph album, undated

Location of Collection

Negatives from this collection are located offsite.

Acquisition Information

Photo Accession no. 2001D028

Separated Materials

A book from Walter Boychuk's personal library, Sunlight and Shadow: A Book for Photographers, Amateur and Professional, by W. I. Lincoln Adams, has been cataloged with the Book Collection at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library.

Related Materials

Additional images by Walter Boychuk can be found in the Morris Whitehouse photographs collection, Org. Lot 321, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Group 1: Walter and Anna Boychuk biographical materials, 1930-1959Return to Top

The group includes a folder of background material on the Boychuks and their studio collected in the course of processing the collection. It also includes photographs of Walter and Anna Boychuk and personal greeting cards they created using his photographs.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
1/1	Background	undated
1/2	Anna Boychuk	circa 1930
1/3	Walter Boychuk	1940
1/4	Greeting cards	1955, 1956, 1957, 1959

Group 2: Prints from original negatives, 1918-1961Return to Top

The prints made at the Oregon Historical Society from Walter Boychuk’s original negatives represent the full range of his photographic work: architectural, portrait, landscape, and commercial. The Oregon Historical Society made prints from Boychuk’s original negatives circa 1970, and these were placed in the Photograph Subject Files in the Research Library. Around 1998, the Meyer Memorial Trust funded a negative survey and preservation printing of the collection. Prints from both of these projects are included in Group 1.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
	Series A: Oregon locations (except Portland)	1912-1961
	Subseries 1: Cities and towns	1930-1951
Box/Folder
1/5	Astoria - Chinook Packing Company receiving station, Tongue Point	circa 1930
1/6	Aurora - Keil residence, Aurora Colony	circa 1945
1/7	Bonneville	1939
1/8	Champoeg State Park	circa 1935
1/9	Florence - Bridge over Siuslaw River	1938
1/10	Lake Oswego Includes images of fireworks display at Kline’s, Marylhurst University, and a smelter stack, among other images	circa 1935
1/11	Newport - Docks	circa 1935
1/12	Oregon City - Catholic Church window	circa 1935
1/13	Oregon City - Willamette Falls	circa 1935
1/14	Salem - State Office Building	1951
1/15	Salem - State Capital Building	1951
1/16	Salem - State Capital Building interior	1951
1/17	Salem - State Capital monuments Includes one image of Anna Boychuk	1951
1/18	Salem - State Library Building	1951
1/19	Salem - Willamette University	1938
1/20	Silverton - Covered Bridges	circa 1935
1/21	St. Paul - Cemetery, with monument and grave of Rev. F. N. Blanchet	circa 1935
1/22	Wheatland - George Gay house Includes one image of Walter Boychuk in house	circa 1940
	Subseries 2: Bonneville Dam	1936-1939
Box/Folder
1/23	Bonneville Dam - Construction Includes images of Walter Boychuk and Anna Boychuk	1936
1/24	Bonneville Dam - Construction from Munra Point	1936 May 28
1/25	Bonneville Dam - Construction,	circa 1936
1/26	Bonneville Locks Includes Steamer Charles L. Wheeler, Jr., the first ship through the Locks	1938 June
1/27	Bonneville Locks - Dedication	1938 July 9
1/28	Bonneville Dam	1938
1/29	Bonneville Lake Reservoir	1938
1/30	Bonneville Dam	1939 April 4
1/31	Bonneville Dame Entrance	circa 1939
	Subseries 3: Columbia River Gorge	1935-1937
Box/Folder
2/1	Beacon Rock from Columbia River Highway Includes McCord Creek Bridge	circa 1939
2/2	Columbia River	circa 1939
2/3	Columbia River - Bridge of the Gods	circa 1939
2/4	Columbia Gorge - Cascade Locks	circa 1936
2/5	Columbia Gorge - from Chanticleer Includes monument at Chanticleer	circa 1935
2/6	Columbia Gorge - from Crown Point Includes Vista House	circa 1935
2/7	Columbia Gorge - Celilo Falls	1956 September 9
2/8	Columbia Gorge - Celilo Falls Some negatives labeled by Boychuk as, "The day before it was covered."	1957 March 9
2/9	Columbia Gorge - Celilo Falls fishing	circa 1935
2/10	Columbia Gorge - Celilo Falls fishing	circa 1956-1957
2/11	Columbia Gorge - Petroglyphs	circa 1935
2/12	Columbia Gorge - Celilo Falls Tramway	circa 1956-1957
2/13	Columbia Gorge - Celilo Canal	circa 1936
2/14	Columbia Gorge - Fishwheel	circa 1935
2/15	Columbia Gorge - Memaloose Island Anna Boychuk in photograph.	1936
2/16	Columbia Gorge - San Dunes	circa 1950
2/17	Columbia Gorge - views	circa 1925
2/18	Columbia Gorge - views	circa 1943, 1950
2/19	Columbia Gorge - views Anna and Walter Boychuk appear in some of the images.	1936 May 28
2/20	Columbia Gorge - Horsetail Falls	circa 1940
2/21	Columbia Gorge - Maidenhair Falls	circa 1935
2/22	Columbia Gorge - Multnomah Falls	circa 1935, circa 1940
2/23	Columbia Gorge - Starvation Creek Falls	circa 1940
2/24	Columbia Gorge - Wahkeena Falls	circa 1940
2/25	Columbia Gorge - Wygant Park	circa 1940
2/26	Columbia River Highway	circa 1935, circa 1940
2/27	Columbia River Highway - Shepherd's Dell and McCord Creek Bridges	circa 1940
2/28	Columbia River Highway - Tunnels Includes images of Bonneville Tunnel, Mitchell Point Tunnel, and Oneonta Tunnel.	1934, circa 1940
	Subseries 4: Coast scenery and lighthouses	1934-1940
Box/Folder
2/29	Coast - Boiler Bay	circa 1938
2/30	Coast - Old cannon at Cannon Beach	circa 1938
2/31	Coast - Cape Kiwanda Anna and Walter Boychuk appear in some of the images.	circa 1934
2/32	Coast - Cape Kiwanda	circa 1936
2/33	Coast - Cape Perpetua lookout	1936 September 13
2/34	Coast - Cape San Sebastian	circa 1938
2/35	Coast - Depot Bay	circa 1938
2/36	Coast - Ecola Park	circa 1936
2/37	Coast - Hecata Head Anna Boychuk appears in some of the images.	circa 1936
3/1	Coast - Lighthouses - Cape Disappointment	circa 1938
3/2	Coast - Lighthouses - Cape Foulweather	circa 1936
3/3	Coast - Lighthouses - Hecata Head Anna Boychuk appears in some of the images.	circa 1936
3/4	Coast - Lighthouses - North Head	circa 1938
3/5	Coast - Lighthouses - Umpqua	circa 1936
3/6	Coast - Newport Bridge	circa 1936-1940
3/7	Coast - Oceanside Beach	circa 1940
3/8	Coast View from Otter Rock	circa 1938
3/9	Coast - San Dunes	circa 1935
3/10	Coast - Scenes	circa 1938
3/11	Coast - Sea Lion Cave Includes Anna Boychuk in some of the images.	circa 1938
3/12	Coast - Waldport Bridge	1936 March 13
3/13	Coast - Waldport Crab Fishing	circa 1936
3/14	Coast - Yachts	1936 September 13
3/15	Coast - Yaquina Bay	circa 1936
	Subseries 5: Mount Hood	1923-1950
Box/Folder
3/16	Mount Hood Various scenes depicting bear grass and rhododendrons with Mount Hood in the background. Some images include Anna Boychuk.	circa 1950
3/17	Mount Hood	circa 1925, 1935, 1945
3/18	Mount Hood from Bull Run Reserve	circa 1935
3/19	Mount Hood - Cloud Cap Inn vicinity	1934
3/20	Mount Hood - Eden Park Includes image of a Mazamas outing.	1923
3/21	Mount Hood - Eliot Glacier	circa 1935
3/22	Mount Hood - Hood River Valley orchards	circa 1935
3/23	Mount Hood from Hood River Valley	circa 1935
3/24	Mount Hood from Lost Lake Walter Boychuk appears in some of the images.	1934
3/25	Mount Hood - Loop Highway in winter	circa 1935
3/26	Mount Hood - Loop Highway	1938
4/1	Mount Hood - Skiing Joe Gianini appears in some of the images.	circa 1935
4/2	Mount Hood - Skiing, Government Camp	circa 1939
4/3	Mount Hood - Skiing, Walter White	1939 February 16
4/4	Mount Hood - South Side	1939 February 17 and 1939 March 9
4/5	Mount Hood - South Side	circa 1939
4/6	Mount Hood from Timberline Lodge	circa 1939
4/7	Mount Hood - Timberline Lodge	1939 February 17 and 1939 March 9
4/8	Mount Hood - Timberline Lodge, snow scenes	1939 February 16
4/9	Mount Hood - Timberline Lodge exterior	1938
4/10	Mount Hood - Timberline Lodge interior	1938
4/11	Mount Hood - Winter	1939
4/12	Mount Jefferson from Mount Hood Walter Boychuk appears in some of the images.	circa 1935
4/13	Rural road - snow scene	circa 1935
	Subseries 6: Eastern Oregon	1945
Box/Folder
4/14	Eastern Oregon - Adobe House, Old Ford Ruins	circa 1945
4/15	Eastern Oregon - Harney County, Alvord Ranch	circa 1945
4/16	Eastern Oregon - Harney County, Steens Mountains	circa 1945
4/17	Eastern Oregon - Harney County, typical ranch	circa 1945
4/18	Eastern Oregon - Harney County Includes photos of the Whitehorse Ranch and a sod building.	circa 1945
4/19	Eastern Oregon - Warm Springs Indian Reservation	circa 1945
	Subseries 7: Lakes	1918-1935
Box/Folder
4/20	Lakes - Aneroid Lake, Mazamas outing	1918
4/21	Lakes - Breitenbush Includes photograph of rest hut.	circa 1920
4/22	Lakes - Crate Lake Taken during a Mazamas outing.	1921
4/23	Lakes - Crate Lake, Wizard Island	1921
4/24	Lakes - Crescent Lake, Diamond Peak Taken during a Mazamas outing.	1921
4/25	Lakes - East Moreland with swans	circa 1935
4/26	Lakes - Ice Lake Taken during a Mazamas outing.	1918
4/27	Lakes - Legion Lake	circa 1935
4/28	Lakes - Wallowa Lake Taken during a Mazamas outing.	1918
	Subseries 8: Mountains	1918-1945
Box/Folder
5/1	Mountains - Eagle Cap	1918
5/2	Mountains - Larch Mountain	circa 1925
5/3	Mountains - Mount Jefferson	circa 1925
5/4	Mountains - Mount Scott	1921
5/5	Mountains - Mount Thiesen Taken during a Mazamas outing.	1921
5/6	Mountains - Mount Washington Taken during a Mazamas outing.	1922
5/7	Mountains - Three Sisters Collier Glacier, taken during a Mazamas outing.	1922
5/8	Mountains - View of the Three Sisters from Bend	circa 1945
	Subseries 9: Rivers	1918-1945
Box/Folder
5/9	Rivers - Crooked River	circa 1945
5/10	Rivers - Wallowa River	1918
	Subseries 10: Waterfalls	1925-1935
Box/Folder
5/11	Waterfalls - Eagle Creek	circa 1925
5/12	Waterfalls - Silver Creek	circa 1935
5/13	Waterfalls - Tanner Creek	circa 1925
	Series B: Locations - Portland	1925-1951
Box/Folder
5/14	Portland - Airport, Aircraft Includes image of Fort Tri-Motor and United Airlines Prop Plane.	1929, 1933
5/15	Portland - Airport	circa 1933
5/16	Portland - Bridges - Broadway	circa 1935
5/17	Portland - Bridges - Burnside	circa 1935
5/18	Portland - Bridges - Ross Island	circa 1935
5/19	Portland - Bridges - St. John's	circa 1936
5/20	Portland - Bridges - Steel	circa 1935
5/21	Portland - Buildings - Benson Polytechnic	circa 1935
5/22	Portland - Buildings - Pacific Telephone	1951 April 19
5/23	Portland - Buildings - Equitable Building Designed by Pietro Belluschi.	1949 November 25
5/24	Portland - Buildings - Federal Building	1951 April 19
5/25	Portland - Buildings - First Congregational Church	circa 1935
5/26	Portland - Buildings - First National Bank	circa 1935
5/27	Portland - Buildings - Franklin High School	circa 1935
5/28	Portland - Buildings - Fruit and Flower Mission	circa 1935
5/29	Portland - Buildings - Jantzen Knitting Mills	circa 1935
5/30	Portland - Buildings - Masonic Temple Designed by Sutton Whitney.	circa 1935
5/31	Portland - Buildings - Meier and Frank	circa 1925
5/32	Portland - Buildings - Multnomah County Courthouse	1925
5/33	Portland - Buildings - Multnomah County Library	circa 1935
5/34	Portland - Buildings - Neighbors of Woodcraft	circa 1935
5/35	Portland - Buildings - Old Forestry Building	circa 1935
5/36	Portland - Buildings - Old Post Office	circa 1925
5/37	Portland - Buildings - Portland Art Museum	circa 1936
5/38	Portland - Buildings - Portland Art Museum, entrance	circa 1936
5/39	Portland - Buildings - Providence Hospital Smokestack	circa 1935
5/40	Portland - Buildings - Catholic Cathedral	circa 1935
5/41	Portland - Buildings - Temple Beth Israel Herman Brookman, contributing architect.	circa 1935
5/42	Portland - Buildings - University Club Morris H. Whitehouse, architect.	circa 1935
5/43	Portland - Buildings - Waverly Baby Home Taken for "Joe Portland" promotion.	circa 1931-1931
6/1	Portland - Firefighting	1922 August 1
6/2	Portland - Shemanski	circa 1930
6/3-4	Portland - Skidmore	circa 1935
6/5	Portland - Skidmore First Portland Garen Club Flower Show	circa 1930
6/6	Portland - Fountains - Skidmore in winter	1935
6/7	Portland - Harbor - Western Transportation Company	circa 1940
6/8	Portland - Harbor - Kerr Gifford Elevator	circa 1940
6/9	Portland - Harbor - Lightshow	circa 1940
6/10	Portland - Jantzen Beach	circa 1935
6/11	Portland - KOIN Tower	circa 1935
6/12	Portland - Marquam Hill, Portland Medical Center	circa 1935
6/13	Portland - Monuments - Abraham Lincoln	circa 1935
6/14	Portland - Monuments - Lownsdale Square	circa 1935
6/15	Portland - Monuments - Theodore Roosevelt	circa 1935
6/16	Portland - Monuments - Harvey Scott	circa 1935
6/17	Portland - Monuments - George Washington	circa 1935
6/18	Portland - Parks - Rocky Butte	circa 1935
6/19	Portland - Parks - Washington Park Includes images of the Rose Garden, "Coming of the White Man" sculpture by Hermon A. MacNeil, and other photographs.	circa 1935
6/20	Portland - Residences - Jacob Kramm Old weeping willow tree.	circa 1930
6/21	Portland - Residences - Lloyd Frank Now Lewis and Clark College.	circa 1930
6/22	Portland - Residences - A. Lewis Mills	circa 1935
6/23	Portland - Rose Festival Parade	circa 1935
6/24	Portland - Rose Festival Parade	circa 1940
6/25	Portland - Streets - Front Street	circa 1935
6/26	Portland - Streets - SW Fifth and Morrison	circa 1935
6/27	Portland - Views - South Portland	circa 1925
6/28	Portland - Views with Mount Hood	circa 1935
6/29	Portland - Willamette Rover	circa 1935
6/30	Portland - Willamette River with Macon Dirigible	1934
	Series C: Other locations	1919-1950
Box/Folder
6/31	Nevada - Virginia City Includes St. Mary's of the Mountain church, the Storey Company courthouse, and Piper's Opera House.	circa 1940
6/32	Nevada - Virginia City cemetery	circa 1940
6/33	Nevada - Virginia City - Residences Includes the John Bauer residence, Savage Mansion, and "The Castle."	circa 1940
7/1	Washington - Long Beach Includes images of fishing boats, clam digging, and Anna Boychuk.	1938
7/2	Washington - Maryhill Museum	1937
7/3	Washington - Mary's Corner, John R. Jackson residence	circa 1930
7/4-5	Washington - Mount Adams Includes image of the Mazamas Glacier, a view from Hood River, and Cascade Locks with Mount Adams in the background.	circa 1920
7/6	Washington - Mount Baker Includes image(s) of Anna Boychuk.	circa 1950
7/7	Washington - Mount Rainier Includes images of a Mazamas outing and Walter Boychuk.	1919
7/8	Washington - Mount Rainier glaciers Taken during a Mazamas outing.	1919
7/9	Washington - Mount Rainier lookout Taken during a Mazamas outing.	1919
7/10	Washington - Mount St. Helens from Spirit Lake	circa 1930
7/11	Washington - Mount Shuksan	circa 1945
7/12	Washington - North Head	circa 1930
7/13	Washington - Olympia Includes image of the Washington state capitol building.	circa 1935
7/14	Washington - Seattle Includes images of Volunteer Park and the Seattle Art Museum.	circa 1935
7/15	Washington - Skamania	circa 1930
7/16	Washington - Skamania County - Fort Rains	circa 1930
7/17	Washington - Stonehenge Includes image(s) of Anna Boychuk.	1937 August 29
7/18	Washington - Tatoosh Range from Mount Rainier Taken during a Mazamas outing.	1919
7/19	Washington - Vancouver Apple Tree	circa 1930
7/20	Washington - Vancouver - Port Commission Dock Includes image of the grain elevator.	circa 1930
7/21	Washington - Whidby Island	1938
7/22	Wyoming - Cody Includes images of Walter Boychuk and relating to Prisma Movies.	1919
	Series D: Portraits	1930-1961
	Subseries 1: Men	1930-1960
Box/Folder
7/23	Adolph Aschoff	1931
7/24	John G. Bacher	circa 1950
7/25	Steffan Bercs	1953 August 13
7/26	Ernest Bloch	1957 February 20
7/27	Ambrose Brownell	1949 October 15
7/28	Asahel Nesmith Bush	1947 February 20
7/29	Adam Cartozian	1956 August 2
7/30	Hamilton Corbett	1959 August 18
7/31	Rev. Benjamin Dagwell	1950 June 20
7/32	Allen H. Eaton	1952 July 10
7/33	Anthony Ewer	circa 1935
7/34	James Alger Fee	1938 March 9
7/35	Austin Flegel	1950 February 20
7/36	William Galvani	circa 1945
7/37	J. J. Guillan	1959 July 16
7/38	W. Hancock	1952 April 24
7/39	Ben H. Hazen	1950 April 11
7/40	Edward R. Heilig	1952 December 19
7/41	Robert D. Holmes	1958 July 31
7/42	W. H. (Ted) Holmes	1949 September 4
7/43	Jacob Kanzler	circa 1950
7/44	Clyde Leon Keller	1948 March 5
7/45-46	Francis Lambert	1958 July 9
7/47	Ben Hur Lampman	circa 1920, 1949 March 29
7/48	Fletcher Linn	1951 May 3
8/1	E. B. MacNaughton	1950 May 2
8/2	Charles H. Manlove	1943 May 17
8/3	Phil Melochan	1951 May 18
8/4	Dent Mowry	circa 1936
8/5	Audie Murphy	circa 1950
8/6	Morgan S. Odell	1955 September 20
8/7	Robert J. Oppenheimer	1955 May 1
8/8	Paul Patterson	1954 February 8, 1956 January 23
8/9	Theodore Pentland	1941
8/10	Fred Peterson	1952 July 10
8/11	Paul Raver	1960 March 23
8/12	J. J. Rosenberg	1949 November 11
8/13	James Buchanan Russell	circa 1950
8/14	T. H. Schoene	1952 January 3
8/15	Terry D. Schrunk	1950 July 21
8/16	Elmo Smith	1956 February 9
8/17	MacCormac Snow	1949 August 11
8/18	Gus J. Solomon	1959 April 11
8/19	Charles Sprague	1942 February 23
8/20	Glen Stanton	1959 August 26
8/21	Lowell Thomas	1947 March 18
8/22	Henry Thiele	1949 June 29
8/23	Norman Thomas	1950 February 28
	Subseries 2: Women	1930-1961
Box/Folder
8/24	Adrianna Katherine Barclay	1933
8/25	Mrs. William Cody Mrs. William Cody was the wife of Buffalo Bill Cody.	circa 1917
8/26	Mrs. Theron Fells	1951 June 21
8/27	Claire Haney	circa 1950
8/28	Mary Haney	1961 December 5
8/29	Matilda Howard Also known as Grandma Graham Howard.	circa 1930
8/30	Thelma Howard Granddaughter of Grandma Graham Howard.	circa 1930
8/31	Edna Levy Frank Holmes	1950 October 5
8/32	Maria Foster Clapton Jackson	1947 September 4
8/33	Mary Lyman Andrews Ladd	circa 1950
8/34	Mrs. Jason Malarkey	1950 April 19
8/35	Mrs. Albert Powers	1959 March 20
8/36	Mrs. Paul Raver	1950 April 7
8/37	Mrs. Gus J. Solomon	1959 April 11
	Subseries 3: Groups	1951-1952
Box/Folder
8/38	Walter Boychuk, Allen Eaton, Walter H. Evans, and Fletcher Linn	1952
8/39	George W. Dunn, Ella Dunn Rice, and Fletcher Linn with ancient Indian grinding stones	1951 September 21
	Series E: Ships and transportation	1930-1940
Box/Folder
8/40	Ships	circa 1935
8/41	Ships - Elizabeth Bakke	circa 1939-1940
8/42	Ships - Unidentified ship flying Nazi flag	circa 1930
8/43	Ships - Military - Battleships	1937
8/44	Ships - Military - USS Astoria	1937
8/45	Ships - Military - USS Chicago	circa 1935
8/46	Ships - Military - USS Houston President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on board.	1934
8/47	Ships - Military - USS Minneapolis	1937
8/48	Ships - Military - USS Oregon	1912
8/49	Ships - Military - USS Oregon	1939
8/50	Ships - Military - USS Relief	1937
8/51	Ships - Sailing - Old schooner, Portland Harbor	circa 1935
8/52	Ships - Sailing - Taisei Maru	1930
8/53	Ships - Sailing - USS Constitution	1933
8/54	Transportation - Aviation - Russian airplane	1937
	Series F: Other subjects	1918-1940
Box/Folder
9/1	Agriculture - Buildings - Deserted house	circa 1935
9/2	Agriculture - Cranberry harvest Includes image of Anna Boychuk.	circa 1940
9/3	Agriculture - Hops dryer	circa 1935
9/4	Agriculture - Sheep	circa 1940
9/5	Eclipse of the sun	1918
9/6	Fishing	circa 1935
9/7	Nature studies Includes swans, geese, "snow birds," and humming birds.	circa 1935
9/8	Natures studies - Flowers Includes magnophilla, balsam orchiza, trillium, daphne, and dogwood.	circa 1935
9/9	Nature studies - Plants Includes lewisii rediviva, balsam, and bear grass.	circa 1935
9/10	Nature studies - Trees Includes magnolia, mistletoe-oak, cherry, chinquapin, vine maple, and apple.	circa 1935
9/11	Scenic views Includes birches and jonquilla, woodland road.	circa 1935
9/12	Scenic views with people Woodland trail with female hiker, "Homeward Bound."	circa 1925
	Series G: Copy work	1915-1959
Box/Folder
9/13	Bradford Island	circa 1925
Oversize B/1	Old Hoffman Cabin	Originally taken in 1853; copy print undated
9/14	Mitchell's Tunnel	circa 1915
Oversize B/1	Inauguration of Elisha P. Ferry as first governor of Washington state	Originally taken 1889 November 18; copy print made 1927
9/15	Abraham Lincoln and family	Originally taken circa 1860; copy undated
9/16	Pope John XXII	1959 March 25
9/17	Portland Hotel	Originally taken 1890; copy undated
9/18	Terwilliger School	Originally taken circa 1900; copy undated
9/19	Portland flood	Originally taken 1890; copy undated
9/20	Portland harbor	Originally taken 1895; copy undated
9/21	Skiing	1932 February 21
	Series H: Historic American Building Survey	1930-1951
	Subseries 1: Residences
Box/Folder
9/22	Applegate Home of Kaspar Kubli.	circa 1930-1931
9/23	Ashland Homes of Hugh Barron, Patrick Dunn, and W. C. Meyer.	circa 1930-1931
9/24	Central Point Home of Thomas Fletcher Beall	undated
9/25	Champoeg Home of Robert Newell.	circa 1930-1931
9/26	Eugene Homes of Prior Blair, Dr. Chapman, Thomas Condon, and J. J. Walton, as well as of Masterson Farm.	circa 1930-1931
9/27	Gold Hill Home of David Birdseye.	circa 1930-1931
9/28	Hubbard Stauffer family home.	circa 1930-1931
9/29	Jacksonville Homes of Applegate family, C. C. Beekman, John Bilger, Peter Britt, and William Bybee.	circa 1935
9/30	Jacksonville Homes of James Cardwell, Benjamin Franklin Dowell, Michael Hanley, Herman Helm, Herbert Hanna, and William Hoffman.	circa 1935
9/31	Jacksonville Homes of Henry Klippel, Kasper Kubli, and David Linn.	circa 1935
9/32	Jacksonville Homes of James McCurty, J. N. Y. Miller, Max Mueller, Jerry Nunan, John Orth, P. P. Prim, Thomas G. Reams, and John E. Ross.	circa 1935
9/33	Medford Home of Gore family.	circa 1930-1931
9/34	Milwaukie Home of Seth Llewelyn.	1930
9/35	Oregon City Homes of J. C. Ainsworth, John Barclay, William Livingston Holmes ("Rose far,"), and Norton McCarver.	1930
9/36	Oregon City Home of John McLoughlin.	circa 1930-1931
9/37	Portland Home of Winslow Corbett.	circa 1930-1931
9/38	Portland Home of Jacob Kramm.	circa 1935
9/39	Portland Home of John Kern.	circa 1945
9/40	Reedville Home of Simon G. Reed.	1930
9/41	Silverton Home of Homer Davenport.	undated
9/42	Salem Home of E. N. Cook.	circa 1930-1931
9/43	Scotts Valley Home of John Letsom.	circa 1930-1931
9/44	Talent Home of E. K. Anderson.	circa 1930-1931
9/45	Yoncalla Home of Charles Applegate.	circa 1930-1931
	Subseries 2: Buildings
Box/Folder
10/1	Crawfordsville Mill	circa 1930-1931
10/2	Dalles - Fort Dalles	circa 1945
10/3	Dayton - Block House	circa 1930-1931
10/4	Eagle Point - Brown Warehouse	circa 1945
10/5	Jacksonville - Business buildings Includes the C. C. Beekman Bank. Brunner Building, I.O.O.F. Building, Wes Kahler's Law Office, J. W. Opp Quartz Mill, Patrick Ryan Store, and the U.S. Hotel.	circa 1935
10/6	Jacksonville - Churches Includes the Catholic church and the Presbyterian church.	circa 1935
10/7	Jacksonville - Public buildings Includes city hall, Masonic building, fire station, and museum.	circa 1935
10/8	Jacksonville - Maps	circa 1935
10/9	New Era Church	circa 1940
10/10	Parkersville Hotel	1941 March 30
10/11	Pleasant Grove Church	1941 March 31
10/12	Portland - Pioneer Post Office	circa 1935
10/13	Rock Point - Stage Coach House	1951 September 29
10/14	Salem - Old Court House	1951 September 29
10/15	Salem - Old State Capitol Includes image of Anna Boychuk.	circa 1931-1935
10/16	Scio - Providence Church	1941 March 30
10/17	Silverton - Liberal University	circa 1940
10/18	St. Louis - Catholic church	circa 1940
10/19	St. Paul - Catholic church	circa 1940
10/20	Wolf Creek Tavern	circa 1940
	Series I: Golden Gate International Exposition	1940
Box/Folder
10/21	Berkeley, Calif.	1940
10/22	Buildings Includes locations in Salinas Valley, Monterey, and Palo Alto, Calif.	1940
10/23	San Francisco	1940
10/24	San Francisco - Golden Gate International Exposition	1940
10/25	San Francisco - Golden Gate International Exposition sculptures	1940
10/26	Carmel, Calif.	1940
10/27	California missions Includes Santa Barbara and San Miguel.	1940
10/28	California - Scenes Includes coast and redwoods.	1940

Group 2: Vintage prints, 1922-1957Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
	Series A: Oregon locations	1930-1957
Box/Folder
Oversize B/1	Lost Creek Meadows Photographed titled by Boychuk, "Valley of Contentment, Oregon."	undated
10/29	Milwaukie - Llewellyn residence	1930
10/30	Oregon City - McLaughlin residence	circa 1930-1931
Oversize B/1	Portland - Temple Beth Israel Synagogue	undated
10/31	Portland - St. Johns Bridge	circa 1936
10/32	Portland - Firefighting	1933 August 1
10/33	Portland - Mary Mallory studio	circa 1936
10/34	Portland - Harry A. Roberts residence	circa 1936
10/35	Portland - St. Thomas More church	1940 September 22
10/36	Portland - University Club	1952
10/37	Eastern Oregon - Alvord Ranch	circa 1945
	Series B: Portraits	1922-1957
Box/Folder
10/38	Men - George J. Annola	circa 1957
10/39	Men - Adolph Aschoff	1930 May 17
Oversize B/1	Men - Ernest Bloch	1957 February 20
Oversize B/1	Men - Hamilton Corbett	1959 August 18
Oversize B/1	Men - Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson	undated
Oversize B/1	Men - Jesse B. Hornung	undated
Oversize B/1	Men - Jacques Gershkovitz	circa 1950
10/40	Men - Francis Lambert	1952 March 6
Oversize B/1	Men - Ben Hur Lampman	1944 March 29
10/41	Men - Fletcher Linn	1951 May 3
Oversize B/1	Men - Dent Mowry	circa 1936
Oversize B/1	Men - Dr. Morgan S. Odell	1955 September 20
Oversize B/1	Men - David Robinson	1950 July 10
Oversize B/1	Women - Maria Foster Clapton Jackson	1947 September 4
10/42	Women - Anne Kerr	1928
10/43	Women - Mrs. Duncan Shields	1928 July 1
10/44	Women - Unidentified	circa 1936
Oversize B/1	Women - Unidentified	undated
10/45	Group - Mazamas, Three Sisters outing	1922
10/46	Group - George W. Dunn, Ella Dunn Rice, and Fletcher Linn	1951
10/47	Group - Tom Young family	1957
10/48	Group - Theater - Junior Pageant Depicts Ruby Asquith and Claire Leonard as Beauty and the Beast.	1928
	Series C: Historic American Buildings Survey	1930-1951
	Oregon
Box/Folder
11/1	Anlauf - Mt. House Hotel	undated
11/2	Applegate Includes homes of Peter Applegate and Kasper Kubli.	undated
11/3	Ashland Includes homes of H. F. Barron, Hugh Barron, W. C. Meyer, and Patrick and Mary M. Dunn.	undated
11/4	Aurora - Home of Dr. Keil	undated
11/5	Central Point - Thomas F. Beall home	undated
11/6	Champoeg - Robert Newell home	undated
11/7	The Dalles - Fort Dalles	undated
11/8	Dayton - Block House	undated
11/9	Eagle Point - George Brown & Sons warehouse	undated
11/10	Eugene Includes homes of Prior Brown, D. Bristow, Thomas Condon, W. A. Masterson, and J. J. Walton.	undated
11/11	Gold Hill - Chauvner family home	undated
11/12	Grants Pass - David N. Birdseye home	undated
11/13	Hubbard - Stauffer family home	undated
11/14	Jacksonville - Business buildings Includes Beekman Bank, Brunner Building, City Hall, Wes Kohler Law Office, McCully Building, Opp Quartz Mill, and the U.S. Hotel.	undated
11/16	Jacksonville - Public buildings Includes Jacksonville Museum, Masonic building, and Old Fire Bell.	undated
11/17	Jacksonville - Residences Homes of J. C. Ainsworth, the Armstrong family, Cornelius C. Beekman, John Bilger, Peter Britt, and William Bybee.	undated
11/18	Jacksonville - Residences Homes of the Cardwell family, Benjamin Franklin Dowell, the Dox family, Michael Hanley, Herbert H. Hanna, the Harbaugh family, William Hoffman, and Herman Holm.	undated
12/1	Jacksonville - Residences Homes of the Jacobs family, Henry Klipple, Kasper Kubli, the Levy family, David Linn, and the Love family.	undated
12/2	Jacksonville - Residences Homes of James Mason McCully, J. N. T. Miller, Max Mueller, Jerry Numan, John Orth, Pain Page Prim, the Pape family, Thomas G. Reames, and John E. Ross.	undated
12/3	Medford Homes of the Gore and Vandyke families.	undated
12/4	Milwaukie - Seth Llewellyn home	undated
12/5	Newburg - John Henry Minthorn home	undated
12/6	Oregon City Homes of Forbes Barclay, William Livingston Holmes, Norton McCarver, and John McLoughlin.	undated
12/7	Portland Includes homes of Henry Winslow Corbett and John Kern, Front Street, and Skidmore Fountain.	undated
12/8	Reedville - Simon G. Reed home	undated
12/9	Riddle - Abner Riddle home	undated
12/10	Rock Point - Stage Coach House	undated
12/11	Salem Includes home of E. N. Cook, Court House, and Old State Capitol.	undated
12/12	Silverton Includes home of Homer Davenport and the Parkersville Hotel.	undated
12/13	Scotts Valley - John Letsom home	undated
12/14	St. Louis - Catholic church	undated
12/15	St. Paul - Catholic church	undated
12/16	Wolf Creek Tavern	undated
12/17	Yoncalla - Charles Applegate home	undated
	Washington
Box/Folder
12/18	Mary's Corner - John R. Jackson home	undated
12/19	Vancouver - Hudson Bay Apple Tree	undated

Group 4: Pictorial Oregon: Twenty-Four Memorable Photographs by Walter Boychuk , 1941Return to Top

Container(s): Box-folder 10/49

Printed booklet of photomechanical prints of Boychuk's photographs, edited by Harry Bigelow Coffin and published by Beattie & Hoffman (Portland, Or.).

Group 5: "Pacific Northwest by Boychuk" photograph album, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 13

Box is located in Oversize B.

Bound album of photographs taken by Boychuk, annotated with his titles and negative numbers.

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Architectural photography
Ships--Oregon--Photographs

Corporate Names

Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco, Calif.)--Photographs
Historic American Buildings Survey--Photographs.

Geographical Names

Bonneville Dam (Or. and Wash.)--Photographs
Columbia River Gorge (Or. and Wash.)--Photographs
Hood, Mount (Or.)--Photographs
Portland (Or.)--Photographs

Form or Genre Terms

Photographic prints
Photomechanical prints

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