Collection is open for research.
Joseph Buchtel was an early Portland photographer and inventor.
Materials require special handling due to fragility. Contact staff for assistance.
Joseph Buchtel papers, Mss 1046, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Collection includes receipts for photographs, etc., 1859-1864; photocopy newspaper clippings, 1874-1877; and U.S. patents for Joseph Buchtel, Henry Stutsman and Eugene D. White for miscellaneous inventions, 1896-1899, including fire hoses, cigar trays, mining equipment and wooden-block pavement. Other materials include printed ephemera, 1925, and diary extracts, 5 pages, May-July, 1851.
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