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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs of Dawson, Yukon Territory, including birds-eye views, city streets, building exteriors and interiors, and people. Also included are photographs of Bennet Lake, Miles Canyon, modes of transportation, and various winter views. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs of early Seattle, and views of Oregon and Alaska |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Hetty Burlingame Beatty (1907-1971) was a sculptor and an author and illustrator of books for children. The collection includes manuscripts, illustrations, and correspondence relating to Beatty's interest in animals, especially horses, and travel adventure. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs of Frank Bonds's family and friends in Sumas, Washington, and McMinnville, Oregon |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs and various ephemeral materials related to a tool described as "an effort to document by accurate recording of architectural form of the historically important buildings which may not be saved due to rapid urban rebuilding." |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Jonathan Bourne was a politician in Oregon at the turn of the twentieth century. In 1885 and 1897, he was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives, and was elected U. S. Senator in 1906. Considered a progressive, Bourne was a founder and president of the National Progressive Republican League in 1911 and organized the Republican Publicity Association in 1912. Most of the collection consists of U. S. Senate correspondence and case files. The Senate case files relate to topics which arose during Bourne's term of office, ranging from problems with the apple crop, through management of Indian affairs and reservations, to construction of public buildings, bridges and other projects in Oregon. There are folders on such issues as child labor, conservation, Chinese exclusion, and land law. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Walter S. Bowman (1865-1938) was a professional photographer who worked in Pendleton, Oregon, from the late 1880s to the mid 1930s. Bowman's photographs document daily life in Eastern Oregon, including special events such as the Pendleton Round-Up. The collection consists of almost 800 negatives and prints representative of the span of the photographer's work, but his noted images of tribal people were largely destroyed after his death. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | William Burke (dates unknown) photographed the Southern Oregon communities of Coos, Curry and Douglas counties from the 1900s to the 1930s. In 1912 Burke and F.F. Sasman traveled on a Pathfinder to demonstrate the need for better roads on the coast. The collection consists of 380 images, prints and negatives, of community events, shipping, railroads, logging, mining and ship-building, and the Pathfinder expedition. |
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| Repository: | Museum of History & Industry, Sophie Frye Bass Library |
| Summary: | Research files and photograph collection of a researcher of Seattle and Northwest photography and history. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Herbert Congdon (1876-1965) was an architect and writer who researched, designed and wrote about historical architecture and furniture, especially churches. The collection consists of an autobiography, manuscripts, correspondence, drawings, plans and photographs of churches and ecclesiastical furniture. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Frederick Alexander Cuthbert (1902-1978) founded the University of Oregon's Department of Landscape Architecture, and later served as the Dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts. His collection is comprised of research and subject files relating to the work of the National Housing Commission and National Resources Planning Board, publications, personal papers and ephemera, artifacts, photographs, and audio/visual material. |
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| Repository: | Museum of History & Industry, Sophie Frye Bass Library |
| Summary: | Reports, record books, scrapbooks, photographs and correspondence related to the Dam Brothers' involvement in the Priest Rapids Dam and irrigation project; also unrelated photographs depicting Native Americans, mostly Plateau Indians. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Orla G. Allen (c. 1879-?), commonly known as O.G. Allen, was a professional photographer operating in Pendleton, Oregon, circa 1910-1920. "Electric Studio" is a franchise name that appeared in locations throughout the West. The collection consists of five images and documents rodeo people and activities, and a Pendleton event. Other O.G. Allen images are available in other collections. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Nothing is known about the Foundation Press. The collection consists of twenty-three glass-plate negatives by an unidentified photographer, c. 1910, some in stereo format. The images show landscape, camps and individuals believed to be of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family Research Library |
| Summary: | This collection primarily contains photographs taken by Benjamin A. Gifford, who worked both in Portland and The Dalles, Or. from 1890-1920, both as a solo photographer and in partnerships with Herbert Hale as Gifford & Hale and with Arthur M. Prentiss as Gifford & Prentiss. The collection also contains photographs taken by Benjamin's son, Ralph I. Gifford, who began work in his father's studio and later was a photographer for the Oregon State Highway Commission until his death in 1947. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | James Taylor Gray (1852-1928) was a ship designer and transportation magnate involved in railroads and shipping in Oregon and Alaska. The collection consists of correspondence, business papers, plans and specifications for steamboat designs and parts, and photographs. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | In 1936 the State Board of Higher Education combined the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology, the Condon Museum of Geology, the University Herbarium, and the Museum of Zoology into the University of Oregon Museum of Natural History. The collection contains correspondence, reports, meeting notes and minutes, Herbarium historical documents, glass negatives, photographs, a Museum of Anthropology accessions/inventory journal, and a negative of Fort Rock sandals. |
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| Repository: | Museum of History & Industry, Sophie Frye Bass Library |
| Summary: | Photographs include individual and group portraits, town views, landscapes and images of lumber industry crews, operations and equipment in Washington State, circa 1870-1911. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Howe family is comprised of Henry Clay Howe (1832-1889) and his wife Letitia, their son Herbert C. Howe (1872-1940) and daughter Lillian Howe. The collection contains diaries, correspondence, photographs, and genealogical papers of the Howe family, manuscripts by Herbert C. Howe, and a ledger of the Oswego Canal Company of NY. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Charles Jonathan Huntington (1846-1878) was a photographer in Washington Territory in the 1870s. The collection contains two glass negatives, one cabinet card, one print, and twenty stereos. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Ruth Hopsen Keen (1906-1998) was a naturalist who studied the Collier Glacier, an educator and Geology professor, an author, and the first female to become a (Park) Ranger Naturalist at Crater Lake National Park. The collection (1930s-1970s) contains correspondence, diaries/journals, a Crater Lake Ranger Naturalist manual, Geological Society publications (of which Keen was president), geology and mineralogy publications, Keen's teaching records from the UO and dissertation, printed matter, reports, subject files, maps, slides, negatives, glass lantern slides, audio, film, and photographs. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Images of the gold mining industry and the Alaskan towns of Council, Deering, Candle, and Nome, taken by San Francisco public affairs activist and photographer |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Charles L. Marshall (1882-1957) was a mining engineer and surveyor. He was born in Portland, Oregon and educated at the University of Oregon, graduating in 1911 or 1912. The papers include a diary, Jan. 1907 to June 1908, describing Marshall's labors in the R and S gold mine, Curry County, Ore. The second volume of the diary has 10 pages of "Mining stories," folklore of southern Oregon and northern California mines. There are two account books showing receipts and expenses at the R and S mine, 1906-1908, and of Marshall's years at the University of Oregon, 1908-1911. From July to December 1918 he was an enlisted man in the U. S. Army, stationed at Washington Barracks, D.C. There are 41 letters, Marshall to his mother, describing his experience in Co. E, 1st Replacement Regt. Engineers. The photograph portion of the collection consists of three albums of photographs black and white prints, real photo postcards, a few commercial postcards, and 17 glass plate negatives. The dates for almost all of the images are from around 1905-1915, with the largest concentration from 1911-1912. The photographs cover mining operations in Southern Oregon, including the Bohemia mines, Lucky Boy mine, Treasure Mine, Crystal Mine, and the Champion (or Champiom) Mine. Also included are images of bridge construction in the Portland area, construction of the Walterville power plant, and Eugene's Municipal Power plant. There are also prints from several trips taken in Oregon and the Northwest, as well as postcards from a trip to South America by a friend. Several real photo postcards of the University of Oregon campus from 1911 are in the collection, a few of which are included in the 1913 Oregana. There are pictures of the buildings as well as of construction of the tennis courts and photographs from a track meet. |
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| Repository: | Museum of History & Industry, Sophie Frye Bass Library |
| Summary: | Photographs of Native Americans (almost all Makah people), ships, and logging taken by or collected by James G. McCurdy |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Collection comprises 36 black and white, glass plate negatives of a Native American family, baseball players in baseball uniforms, unidentified people on a farm, and Jump Off Joe rock in Newport, Oregon, circa 1918. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The collection consists of seven lantern slides of logging and mill operations circa 1900, believed to be near Noti, Oregon. The photographer is unknown. |
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| Repository: | Museum of History & Industry, Sophie Frye Bass Library |
| Summary: | Photographs of the buildings, grounds, exhibits and events of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, for which Nowell was the official photographer. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Edward J. Partridge (1856-1891) and his brother, William H. Partridge (1860-1939), were important photographers active in Oregon, Alaska, and San Francisco. The collection consists of seventy images, primarily vintage prints. Other Partridge images appear in the Day collection and the Angelus Studio collection. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs of neighborhood routes, tracks, trolleys, and car barns of the Seattle Municipal Street Railway from 1913-1940. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | William J. Smith (dates unknown) grew up in Detroit, Oregon, at the turn of the century, and went into the family timber business. The Smith and Smith Mill processed timber in the Macky Place area. The collection consists of 69 photographs documenting the mill, the original town of Detroit, and landscape, and include several shots of the transportation of a donkey engine across a river and up a steep slope in 1911. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | John Hawthorne Stadden (1873-1961) was an itinerant Northwest photographer from 1907-1909 and opened Stadden Photographic Studio in Marshfield (Coos Bay) in 1909. The collection consists of images of the Coos Bay area of the Oregon coast, c. 1910-1920. |
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| Repository: | Museum of History & Industry, Sophie Frye Bass Library |
| Summary: | Photographs of the family and friends of Russian immigrant Joseph Swartz; of the Swartz shingle mill near Granite Falls, Washington; and of Everett High School student groups. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Albert Raddin Sweetser (1861-1940) was professor of botany at the University of Oregon, 1902-1931, and he established the UO Herbarium. His wife, Carrie K. Sweetser (1863-1952) was a watercolorist, a life-long diarist, and her botanist husband's devoted travel companion. The collection contains Albert Sweetser correspondence and notes, photographs and negatives of botanical subjects and travel in Japan and S. Korea in the early 1900s, and Albert and Carrie Sweetser travel and teaching scrapbooks, photo albums, journals, and personal material. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Views of the Alaskan coast and Yukon River scenes, some portraits of natives as well as many of the vessels active in Alaskan waters, circa 1895 |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs of landscapes in Seattle, Thurston and Snohomish Counties, family, and friends by Viretta Chambers (Mrs. C. L.) Denny |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs by Alvin H. Waite of various locales in Washington state (such as Mount Rainier and the city of Tacoma) as well as the Chicago World's Fair and various Northwest and Midwest locations. |
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| Repository: | Museum of History & Industry, Sophie Frye Bass Library |
| Summary: | The collection consists of photographs by Anders Beer Wilse and the Seattle Photographic Company taken between 1892 and 1913, including images of Native Americans, Indian crafts, the Seattle Fire Department, and Seattle buildings, parks and waterfront. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | John A. Winter (dates unknown) was one of Eugene's earliest photographers and maintained a studio there 1864-1886 in addition to working in Albany and Brownsville. His son, Clarence, kept the Eugene studio from 1886-1907 and then moved north to Portland and Seattle. The Winter studio collection consists of 37 images, primarily portraits. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | William P. Woodard (1896-1973) was a scholar of Japanese religion, and served as an advisor on religion and cultural resources during the allied command after World War II. His research and study of Japanese religions resulted in his book The Allied Occupation of Japan and Japanese Religions (1972). The collection contains correspondence, literary manuscripts, Allied Occupation documents, research files, mission records, films, and audiotapes. |
