Archives West Finding Aid

The album images all appear to be studio portraits, either of individuals or of families. The sole exception is the loose postcard, which is a photograph of a gravestone. Images are not labeled making it difficult to identify the individuals pictured, with two exceptions. The gravestone on the postcard is identified as Wiley Campbell (July 11, 1832) and his wife Elizabeth (Oct. 30, 1826, Aug 28, 1911). One photograph depicts a woman holding her diploma from Washington Agricultural College and School of Science (Washington State University); the diploma identifies her as Dora Orlette Lobaugh. Unnattributed notes from the time of donation identify the album as "portraits of early Pullman, WA residents." However, a majority of the cards are from out of state; since the origin of that note is ungiven it is now unclear if this was an assumption made from a few cards, or if the images taken out of state are all of people who later moved to Pullman.

Though the subjects of the images are unidentified, most of the cabinet cards do identify the studios which produced them. Studios present include: L.S. Page; Frader; Williams; Holderness; D.B. Rich (all of Emporia, KS); M.S. Eastman (of Pullman, WA and Colfax, WA); Emery / Aristo; S.S. Sloan; L. Taylor (all of Pullman, WA); New York Gallery (of Reading, PA); Blaul; B.F. Reimer (both of Philadelphia, PA); Dixon (of Colfax, WA); Bailey (of Spokane, WA); Galeria de Plaza (of Los Angeles, CA); and Chistopher (no location given).