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Burnham family photographs

 Digital Record
Identifier: Org. Lot 6

Summary

Digitized versions of glass and film negatives, taken circa 1908, that belonged to Howard J. Burnham and depict homesteading in Oregon and an expedition to climb Mt. Hood. The photographer is unknown but may have been related to the Burnham family. Allison Burnham (approximately 1866-1939) was the first postmaster in the unincorporated lumbering community of Mountain in Josephine County, Oregon, and later started the Clark County Title and Abstract Company in Vancouver, Washington. His son Howard J. Burnham (1901-1985) subsequently owned and operated the company.

Repository Details

Part of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library Repository

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