Landscape photography -- Oregon

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B. B. Bakowski ( -1911) was a noted postcard photographer from Central Oregon, who disappeared during a blizzard at Crater Lake. He also marketed his work as Oregon Art Co. The collection consists of eleven postcards dating from c. 1890s-1910s, showing Wallowa, Enterprise, and the Kelley creek viaduct.

Abstract Glenn Roger Dorband (b.1944- ) is an Oregon photographer and graduate of both the University of Oregon and Portland State University. This collection (1985-2009) contains an assortment of prints, transparencies, and negatives. Bodies of work represented included selected images from publications “Blue Moon Over Thurman Street” (1993), and “Out Here: Poems and Images from Steens Mountain Country” (2010). Both publications were collaborative book projects with author, Ursula K. Le Guin. The...

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Thomas Leander "Lee" Moorhouse (1850-1926) was a photographer and businessman in Pendleton, Oregon. From 1888 to 1916 he produced over 9,000 images documenting urban, rural, and Native American life in the Columbia Basin and Umatilla County, Oregon. The collection consists primarily of glass-plate negatives.

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William J. Smith (dates unknown) grew up in Detroit, Oregon, at the turn of the century, and went into the family timber business. The Smith & Smith Mill processed timber in the Macky Place area. The collection consists of 69 photographs documenting the mill, the original town of Detroit, and landscape, and include several shots of the transportation of a donkey engine across a river and up a steep slope in 1911.