Photograph albums

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George R. Fardon (1806-1886) was an English photographer who operated in San Francisco, CA and Victoria, BC. The album consists of thirty images of San Francisco in 1856, published as a portfolio by Herre & Bauer. The San Francisco album is considered the first published compilation of photographs of any American city and the major work of Fardon’s career. This is one of ten known variant copies.

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The collection consists of one album of 41 images signed by John Fletcher Ford (c.1862-1914), a commercial photographer in Portland, showing logging, landscape along Columbia River; city of Portland. One image of military crew on rotating gun emplacement.

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The Fort Huachuca photograph album collection consists of one album of snapshots of an African-American soldier and family at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, circa 1940s.

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Fred Michael Fuecker (1895-1975) served in the military from 1911-1955, including World War I and World War II. The collection consists of a World War I diary, administrative papers of the provost marshal of Los Angeles and Arizona, and of Service Command Unit 4910, Los Angeles (1942-1944), and seven photograph albums, (1911-1924), scrapbooks and mementos.

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The collection consists of one album of 51 images showing the people, industry and town of Glendale, Oregon, c. 1890s. Views include sheep farm, town, lumber mill, mining operations, hotel, depot, children, saloon, Beehive store, and recreation. Several pictures of dog with adopted cougar kits.

Abstract Collection comprises the papers of Jane Grant, an American journalist and co-founder of the New Yorker magazine. The papers consist of personal correspondence, Lucy Stone League materials, manuscripts, war journalism and personal materials. Major correspondents include Harold Ross, William B. Harris, Raoul Fleischmann, Pearl Buck, and Florence Kitchelt. The Lucy Stone League materials includes women's rights material on the topics of the Equal Rights Ammendment, National Women's Party and...

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Laura Kennon Hall of Baker, Oregon, graduated from the University of Oregon in Eugene in 1911. The collection consists of one album showing campus life, interior shots of her room, and Beta Epsilon/Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Includes shot of Theodore Roosevelt during whistle-stop speech to save University of Oregon, Apr. 15, 1911. Several images of Baker are included.

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Edith Ashmore (Hensolt) (1882-1975) was born in China to Baptist missionaries, and she later graduated from Vassar, became a librarian, and traveled widely. The collection (1896-1999) contains diaries, extensive personal correspondence, recollections and photographs of travel to Hawaii, Japan, China, and California.

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The collection consists of one album of photographs of construction of Leon Hirsch's Jacobean/Tudor-style home on Portland Heights, 1922. The house was designed by Sutton & Whitney and still stands. Hirsch was associated with the Meier & Frank company.

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Garry W. Jewett lived in Pomeroy, Washington and was an attorney for the Nez Percé tribe. The collection contains papers related to Jewett's service as attorney to the Nez Percé Indians.

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The collection consists of one album of 31 8-1/2x11" albumen prints of major London structures and waterways, including Langham Hotel. Dated 1865-1870s by clothing. Photographer unknown.

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The Mazamas mountaineering and conservation club was established on July 19, 1894 on the summit of Mt. Hood; the group works to promote mountaineering and advocates for the protection and management of natural areas. The collection (1894-1916) contains photographs of hikes up the Three Sisters, correspondence, and printed Mazama material.

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Bertram Telfer McBain was a paper mill manager and consultant. The papers include proposals and studies for pulp mill sites, a manuscript history of the pulp and paper industry in the Pacific Northwest, photographs and a scrapbook of the Crown Pulp Mill, Oregon City (1914), and photographs of construction of the Oregon City-West Linn bridge (1922).

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Charles T. McDaniel was, for many years, a cashier of the Stockgrowers & Farmers National Bank of Wallowa, Oregon. The collection contains bank correspondence, personal and family correspondence, a travel diary, memorial letters, and a photograph album.

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The collection consists of one snapshot album of Archie J. Miller of Enterprise, Oregon: "These photos are the result of one season's work in "Wallowa" and "Seven Devil" Mountain. Ranger season 1915—U.S. Forest Service, Grazing Reconnaisance & Geodetic Surveys. McCully Basin, Imnaha River, Joseph area." Approximately 100 snapshots.

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The collection consists of one album documenting operations of Morgan Lumber Co. 44 images of mill, logging operations, camp, rail, and scenery. One image identified as Nagrom ("Morgan" backwards). Rail began in 1912; Morgan ceased business in 1924. The photographer is unknown.

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The collection consists of one commercial souvenir album, The most interesting views of Peking, with 120 tinted images of local people, street scenes; Great Wall, palaces and other monuments. C. 1900, photographer unknown.

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Sisters & Mt. St. Helens, 1922; Mt. St. Helens 7/23; Mt. Hood, Paradise [???] 8/10/1923; Kalama River; Merrill Lake, WA 9/8/1923; Spen, Paul Vial [?], Mt. Howe; Umpqua River & Cape Salisbury. [Note, source unknown.]