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PH0017
Conklin, Louie Marian, 1872-1909
Louie Marian Conklin
photograph albums
approximately
1897-1909
2 albums (22 photographs, 39
photographs); 2 unmounted photographs (1 box)
1 memorial service brochure
Collection materials are in
English.
Two albums of
Oregon town and wilderness scenes and portraits of the family and friends of
Louie Marian Church Conklin, a teacher active in the civic life of Salem,
Oregon, and Grants Pass, Oregon. Also includes some American Indian
portraits.
Mrs. Louie Marian Church Conklin was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on
October 10, 1872, where Mr. and Mrs. Church were missionary teachers. The
family later moved to Greenville, Michigan. After graduating from Oberlin
College in Ohio, Louie became a teacher in the state school for the blind in
Lansing, Michigan, where her father was superintendent. Later she moved to
Oregon and took a position in the school for the blind in Salem, where she
remained for three years. She married Arthur Conklin, a widower and real estate
agent from Grants Pass, Oregon, on November 10, 1904. She became a mother to
her husband’s two children from his previous marriage and also had three
children with Mr. Conklin. She was active in church, education, and civic
affairs.
In early 1909, Mrs. Conklin became ill with a cold and subsequently
suffered a stroke on March 9, that rendered her partially paralyzed. She passed
away at her home in Grants Pass on March 26, 1909, at the age of 37. Funeral
services were held at the Baptist church, where she was a member. She was
survived by her husband, children, her mother Mrs. Frances A. L. Church, and
two brothers.
The collection is arranged into three series: Oregon views album,
Louie Marian Church album, and miscellaneous materials.
The Oregon views album includes images of Oregon towns and wilderness
scenes and also includes a train capsized in a river, and lumbering and fishing
scenes.
The Louie Marian Church album includes photographs of Louie Marian
Church, her friends and their activities. Images include Amos Earl Voorhies,
publisher of the
Grants Pass Daily Courier who later
established Grants Pass’ first radio station, KUIN; trips to Crater Lake,
Newport, and Colestine, Oregon; and the State Blind School in Salem, Oregon.
Also included are portraits of American Indians.
The Oregon views album is encased in a green suede cover with a floral
motif. It includes the following instances where pages have been cut and
removed: one page cut before page 1, three pages cut after page 1, one page cut
after page 7, three pages cut after page 18, three pages cut after page 22.
Photographs are pasted on verso and recto.
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One Church album cover was removed in 2005 as it was disintegrating
and unattached from the album's pages and was determined to hold little
historic or informational value. Written inside the front cover was “One of
your Mother’s photo books. Book made before 1904.”
Processed by Linda Wagner; processing completed in 2005.
Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
Conklin, Louie Marian, 1872-1909--Photographs
Voorhies, A. E. (Amos Earl )--Photographs
Grant's Pass (Or.)--Photographs
Buildings--Oregon--Grants Pass--Photographs
Buildings--Oregon--Salem--Photographs
Camp sites, facilities, etc.--Oregon--Photographs
Lumber camps--Oregon--Photographs
Indians of North America--Oregon--Photographs
Newspaper editors--Oregon--Grants Pass--Photographs
Photographs
Oregon
Home and Family
City and Town Life
Parks and Playgrounds
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Oregon views album
1
1.1
Men fishing in a river in
Oregon
circa
1899-1904
1
1.2
View of people in a small clearing
surrounded by tall trees
circa
1899-1904
Written on photo: Oregon timber.
1
1.3
Group on the bank of a creek near log
cabin, Breitenbush Springs, Oregon
circa
1899-1904
1
1.4-5
Wrecked railroad engine of train #2204
in a river, Salem, Oregon
December
1901
1
1.6
Photograph of painting of Mount Hood,
Oregon
circa
1899-1904
1
1.7
Photograph of painting of Mount Shasta,
California
circa
1899-1904
1
1.8
Railroad track and cabins, Detroit,
Oregon
circa
1899-1904
1
1.9
Capital Lumber Company lumber yard with
men loading horse drawn wagon, Salem, Oregon
circa
1899-1904
1
1.10
Men felling trees near logging
camp
circa
1899-1904
1
1.11
Gatch Falls, Oregon
circa
1899-1904
1
1.12-13
Waterfall
circa
1899-1904
1
1.14
Fish wheel with shore in
background
1899
Herbert A. Hale
1
1.15
Men working on dock with drying gill
nets near fresh caught fish and boats
circa
1899-1904
1
1.16
Whiskey Creek, Oregon
circa
1899-1904
1
1.17
Whiskey Creek Bridge,
Oregon
circa
1899-1904
1
1.18
Photograph of painting of Mount
Rainier, Washington
circa
1899-1904
1
1.19
Lighthouse, Tillamook Rock,
Oregon
circa
1899-1904
1
1.20
Glacier, Mount Hood, Oregon
circa
1899-1904
1
1.21
Steel Cliff, Oregon
circa
1899-1904
1
1.22
Waterfall
circa
1899-1904
Louie Marian Church album
2
2.1a-2
Louie Marian Church
before 1904
2
2.3
State School for the Blind, Salem,
Oregon
before 1904
Written on album: Your mother [was] one of the teachers
there.
2
2.4
Superintendent Mr. Jones, Louie Marian
Church, Mrs. Jones, and two other teachers
before 1904
2
2.5a
Louie Marian Church, Mrs. Jones, and
pet cats
before 1904
2
2.5b
Two cats
before 1904
2
2.6a
Child Earl Voorhies with toy
wagon
before 1904
2
2.6b
Earl Voorhies
before 1904
2
2.7
Amos Earl Voorhies, publisher of
Grants Pass Daily Courier, with
his son Earl on his lap
before 1904
Written on album: Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Voorhies [were] old friends
of Louie way back in Greenville, Michigan when Mr. Church was principal of [a]
public school there.
2
2.8
Two men near a display of large
vegetables in front of the Rogue River Courier building
before 1904
Written on album: 13 ft. corn, 6 ft. alfalfa, 125 lb. squash.
Former building occupied by Grant's Pass Daily Courier.
3
2.9a
Mrs. A.E. Voorhies, Louie Marian
Church, and child
1903
Written on album: On porch of Mr. & Mrs. A.E. Voorhies' home
summer when Louie visited them.
3
2.9b
Earl Voorhies at a
chalkboard
before 1904
3
2.10
Earl Voorhies in Voorhies home on a
rocking horse next to a wall display of woven baskets
before 1904
3
2.11
Members of the Oregon Press
Association, Salem, Oregon
1903
Written on album: Dad at extreme left with overcoat. Louie, not
then married at extreme right. Some of the members of the Oregon Press
Association and wives and friends at Salem, Oregon, when Dad was President of
the Association. Stopped here when returning from the State Penitentiary.
3
2.12-14
Crater Lake, Oregon
1902
3
2.15a
Waterfall
before 1904
3
2.15b
People on the beach, Newport,
Oregon
before 1904
3
2.15c
Louie Marian Church, Mrs. A. E.
Voorhies and young Earl Voorhies in front of a cave on the beach, Newport,
Oregon
before 1904
3
2.16
Siletz Indian John Bradford holding two
obsidian blades and wearing headdress decorated with woodpecker scalps, Siletz
Reservation, Oregon
1897?
4
2.17
Siletz Indian woman wearing twined
basketry hat and weaving twined basket, Siletz Reservation, Oregon
between 1890 and 1904
Hat is possibly Yurok style.
4
2.18
Four Siletz Indian elders with baskets
seated around table, with fish smoking over fire in background, Siletz
Reservation, Oregon
1897?
4
2.19
Lighthouse at Newport Beach,
Oregon
before 1904
4
2.20
The first Rogue River bridge, Grants
Pass, Oregon
before 1904
4
2.21
Southern Pacific Railroad trestle near
Colestine, Oregon
before 1904
4
2.22
Tunnel on Southern Pacific Railroad
near Colestine, Oregon
before 1904
4
2.23
A summer camp, Colestine,
Oregon
before 1904
Written on album: ...Dad and other friends.
4
2.24
Women and children at a camp, Colestine
Springs, Oregon
before 1904
5
2.25
View of forest, Colestine,
Oregon
before 1904
5
2.26
Louie Marian Church possibly carving
initials in the bark of a tree, Colestine, Oregon
before 1904
5
2.27
Mrs. A. E. Voorhies, young Earl
Voorhies, and Louie Marian Church sitting on a split rail fence, Colestine,
Oregon
before 1904
5
2.28
Earl Voorhies in woods next to creek,
Colestine, Oregon
before 1904
5
2.29
Miss Louie Marian Church in woods,
Colestine, Oregon
before 1904
5
2.30
Portrait of Mrs. A. E. Voorhies, Miss
Louie Marian Church, child and man at a campsite, Colestine, Oregon
1903?
Written on album: Mrs. A. E. Voorhies, Miss Louie Marian Church,
and your Dad.
5
2.31
Tunnel on Southern Pacific Railway near
Colestine, Oregon
before 1904
Written on album: 3/5 if [a] mile long and perfectly
straight.
Duplicate of item 22.
5
2.32
Woman standing on the front porch of a
house, Grants Pass, Oregon
before 1904
Written on album: Our home at Grant's Pass, Oregon before
remodeled. Harold and Marian born here.
5
2.33
First Baptist Church, Grants Pass,
Oregon
before 1904
Written on album: Burnt down and a new church now built.
Miscellaneous
6
3
Conklin building, Grants Pass,
Oregon
before 1904
6
4
Teepee, possibly Umatilla tribe in
Umatilla, Oregon
before 1904
Lee Moorhouse,Pendleton, Oregon
6
5
Brochure of Mrs. Louie Marian
Conklin's memorial service
circa 1909