Unidentified album pages
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of 19 black and white photographs on six pages removed from an unidentified album. Images date to circa 1880-1914; subjects include Multnomah Falls with a timber bridge; unidentified residences; unidentified people, both groups and individuals; a joss house in Portland's Chinatown; portraits of Chinese opera actors in full costume; Oneonta Gorge; a block house on the Columbia River; a fish wheel on the Columbia River; Mount Hood; Mount Shasta; and unidentified scenes.
Dates
- circa 1880-1914
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Oregon Historical Society owns the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from copyright owners.
Extent
0.16 Cubic Feet (1 oversize folder in shared box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Collection consists of black and white photographs on six pages removed from an unidentified album. Among the subjects depicted are scenes in the Columbia River Gorge, including Multnomah Falls, a fishwheel, a blockhouse, and Oneonta Gorge; Mount Hood and Mount Shasta; a joss house in Portland's Chinatown; portraits of Chinese opera actors in full costume; and unidentified people and residences.
- Actors -- Photographs
- Architecture, Domestic -- Oregon -- 19th century -- Photographs
- Chinatown (Portland, Or.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs
- Columbia River -- Photographs
- Fishwheels -- Columbia River -- Photographs
- Fortification -- Washington (State) -- Skamania County -- Photographs
- Hood, Mount (Or.) -- Photographs
- Landscapes -- Northwest, Pacific -- Photographs
- Multnomah Falls (Or.) -- Photographs
- Oneonta Gorge (Or.) -- Photographs
- Oregon
- Photographs
- Shasta, Mount (Calif : Mountain) -- Photographs
- photographs
- Title
- Guide to the unidentified album pages
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library Repository
1200 SW Park Ave.
Portland OR 97205 United States
5033065204
5033065240
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