NTDPG07 Guide to Lee Moorhouse photographs Moorhouse (Lee) photographs Finding aid prepared by Amy Thompson University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives 2022
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-11-07. Description is written in: English, Latin script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives Lee Moorhouse photographs Moorhouse, Lee, 1850-1926 PG 007 .25 cubic feet 1900-1962 Photographs taken by Lee Moorhouse. Subjects include members of the Cayuse, Nez Perce and Umatilla tribes. English .

Major Thomas Leander (Lee) Moorhouse was born in Marion County, Iowa in 1950. His family traveled the Oregon Trail in 1861, settling in Walla Walla, Washington. Moorhouse moved in with friends from Iowa, near Pendleton, Oregon. As an adult, Moorhouse worked as a miner, surveyor, rancher, businessman, civic leader real estate operator and inusurance salesman before becoming Agent for the Umatilla Indian Reservation in 1889. Throughout his life, Moorhouse had an interest in photography, and between 1888 and 1916 produced over 9,000 images documenting urban and rural community life, transportation, social functions and entertainments, and Native American life in the Columbia Basin and Umatilla County, Oregon. He was also a collector of Native American artifacts, including baskets, weapons, regalia, bags and clothing, which he would use in his photography.

A large collection of original Lee Moorhouse photographs can be found at University of Oregon Library Special Collections and Univeristy Archives as collection PH 036.

Items in the collection indicate the donor to be Dan Warren of Moscow, with the exception of one image, "Umatilla Indian Mother and Babe," PG 7-10-2, to be donated by Mrs. Phyllis Harrison. The collection was donated at an unknown date.

Collection is open for research.

Photographer, "Title," date. Collection name, object ID. University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, Moscow, ID.

 Photograph collections Photographs Native Americans Photographs Photographs Major Lee Moorhouse. Pendleton, Oregon. n.d. 8x10 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Dan Warren undated 2-1 Joaquin Miller. Early 1900's. Photographer: Major Lee Moorhouse. 8x10 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Dan Warren 1900 3-1 Copy print. Cayuse Indians. Second from left on Appaloosa horse is Robert Burke. - Original photo taken in 1923. 1962. Photographer: Major Lee Moorhouse. 8x10 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Dan Warren 1962 4-1 Copy print. Cayuse Indians. Nearest: Mrs. Poker Jim. Other woman: Ka L Lew Shunmi (or Shunmy). - Original photo taken ca. 1922. Women riding in parade, probably Pendleton Roundup. 1962. Photographer: Major Lee Moorhouse. 8x10 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Dan Warren 1962 5-1 Indian artifacts. Early 1900's. Photographer: Major Lee Moorhouse. 7x8.75 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Dan Warren 1900 6-1a Indian artifacts. Early 1900's. Photographer: Major Lee Moorhouse. 7x8.75 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Dan Warren 1900 6-1b "We-Niv's Daughter". - Photo titled "We-Niv's Daughter." Early 1900's. Photographer: Major Lee Moorhouse. 5x7 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Dan Warren 1900 7-1 "Young Chief." Cayuse tribe. Early 1900's. Photographer: Major Lee Moorhouse. 6.5x8.25 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Dan Warren 1900 8-1 Cayuse tribe female smoking buckskins. - Photo titled "Smoking Buck-Skins" Cayuse-Tribe. Early 1900's. Photographer: Major Lee Moorhouse. 8x10 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Dan Warren 1900 9-1 Group of Umatilla Indians. Indian woman holding Appaloosa. - Photo titled "Group of Umatilla's." Early 1900's. Photographer: Major Lee Moorhouse. 8x10 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Dan Warren 1900 10-1 Umatilla Indian mother and baby. 1900. Photographer: Major Lee Moorhouse. 8x10 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Mrs. Phyllis Harrison 1900 10-2 Two Umatilla warriors on horses. - Photo titled "Umatilla Warriors." July 4, 1900. Photographer: Major Lee Moorhouse. 5x7 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Dan Warren 1900-07-04 11-1 Copy print. Two Indian men with Appaloosa horse. - 1962 is the date copy print was made, date of original unknown. 1962. Photographer: Major Lee Moorhouse. 8x10 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Dan Warren 1962 12-1 Composite picture of Yakima Indians. - Photo titled "Most Noted Indians of Yakima Reservation." Early 1900's. Photographer: Major Lee Moorhouse. 6.5x8.5 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Dan Warren 1900 13-1 Two Bannock braves. - Photo titled "Bannock Braves." Early 1900's. Photographer: Major Lee Moorhouse. 8x10 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Dan Warren 1900 14-1 Nezperce warriors mounted on horses. - Photo titled "Nezperces Warriors." July 4, 1906. Photographer: Major Lee Moorhouse. 8x10 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Dan Warren 1906-07-04 15-1 Copy print. Stephens Reuben, Nez Perce Indian man. 1900 or 1901. Photographer: Major Lee Moorhouse. 8x10 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Dan Warren 1900 16-1 Nez Perce warrior. - Photo titled "NezPerce Warrior." Early 1900's. Photographer: Major Lee Moorhouse. 8x10 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Dan Warren 1900 17-1 Indian burying scaffold. - Photo titled "Burying Scaffold." Early 1900's. Photographer: Major Lee Moorhouse. 8x10 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Dan Warren 1900 18-1 Copy print. Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co. (O.R. & N. Co.), Locomotive 35, Engine no. 35. - 1962 is the date copy print was made, date of original unknown. 1962. Photographer: Major Lee Moorhouse. 8x10 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Dan Warren 1962 19-1 Copy print. Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co. (O.R. & N. Co.), Engine no. 35. - 1962 is the date copy print was made, date of original unknown. 1962. Photographer: Major Lee Moorhouse. 8x10 black and white print 1 photographic prints donated by Dan Warren 1962 19-2 Oregon Indian life. Views of Fish Hawk, Captain Son-Kin, Umatilla Indians, To-ka-map-po, sweat house, papoose basket, Turzah, Indian school, and Martin Speedus at Tumwater Falls. - Poster with eleven photographs all copyrighted by Major Lee Moorhouse. early 1900's. Photographer: Lee Moorehouse. 1 photographic prints donor information unkown 1900 20-01 o.s.