ohy_orglot477.xml Guide to the Harriet Park Cramer photographic collection Cramer (Harriet Park) photographic collection Oregon Historical Society Research Library 2012
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-11-03. Finding aid is written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. Oregon Historical Society Research Library Harriet Park Cramer photographic collection Cramer, Harriet Park Org. Lot 477 0.1 cubic feet 8 folders in shared box; 62 negatives in shared box 1931 Photographic prints and nitrate negatives depicting Caroline Augusta Kamm, the Kamm children, and the Kamm house in Portland, Oregon; Elijah "Lige" Coalman; children and staff at the Fruit and Flower mission; and the grounds of the E. B. MacNaughton estate. English

Collection is open for research.

Gifts of Owen P. Cramer in March 1981 (Lib. Acc. 15461, Photo Acc. 981D044) and March 1988 (Lib. Acc. 18820, Photo Acc. 988D062).

Jacob Kamm was born in 1823 in Switzerland. He came the United States as a small child with his parents. He was a pioneer steamboat engineer and transportation tycoon who made his fortune in Oregon. He became part-owner in the Jennie Clark, the first sternwheeler in the Pacific Northwest. He married Caroline Gray in 1859. He was one of the founders of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company with John C. Ainsworth. His company, the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, controlled boats on all the important western rivers. He died in Portland in 1912.

Negatives are not available for direct access due to fragility; contact library staff for assistance.

Harriet Park Cramer photographic collection, Org. Lot 477, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.

Collection includes 83 black and white photographs, 1931, of Elijah "Lige" Coalman; Caroline Augusta Kamm at the Kamm home; the Kamm children, including Carolyn and Katherine; the interior, exterior, grounds, and gardens of the Kamm house; children and staff at the Fruit and Flower mission; and the grounds of the E. B. MacNaughton estate. The collection also includes 62 nitrate negatives.

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 Coalman, Elijah, 1881-1970--Photographs Kamm, Caroline Augusta Gray--Photographs MacNaughton, Ernest Boyd, 1880-1960--Homes and haunts--Photographs Fruit and Flower Child Care Center--Photographs Kamm family--Homes and haunts--Photographs Architecture, Domestic--Oregon--Portland--Photographs Gardens--Oregon--Portland--Photographs Interior decoration--Oregon--Portland--Photographs Children--Oregon--Portland--Photographs Children and Youth Architecture Photographs Portland photographs negatives (photographs)