Tabor family photographs

Collection

Identifier: Org. Lot 968

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Collection consists of photographs collected by the Tabor family. Most of the photographs are believed to have been taken or acquired by J. W. Tabor and Margaret Tabor during a trip to Portland, Oregon in 1895. Subjects include various views of Portland, including City Park (now Washington Park) gardens and bear pit, Mount Tabor reservoir, the Portland Heights cable car line, the Willamette River waterfront, and the Morrison Bridge; Celilo Falls; photographs of James Waucop Tabor, Margaret S. McNulty Tabor and her cousin, Alice Bachman Bettner; and a coroner's investigation of a body found in a mining camp near Granite, Oregon. None of the photographers are identified.

Dates

1885-1895

Creator

Tabor, James Waucop, 1865-1948 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Materials in this collection are in the public domain.

Biographical Note

James Waucop Tabor, more commonly known as J. W. “Walkie” Tabor, was born in Granite, Oregon in 1865. His parents, Albert Gallatin Tabor and Mary Jane McCausland Tabor, started a gold mining claim near what was to become Granite in 1862. The Tabor family operated several mining claims and businesses in Grant County, Oregon.

Margaret S. McNulty was born in Canyon City in 1873. She married J. W. Tabor in 1893. J. W. Tabor died in La Grande, Oregon in 1948. Margaret Tabor died in Baker City in 1961.

Extent

0.2 Cubic Feet (2 folders in a shared document case) : 21 cabinet card photographs

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Collection consists of 21 card photographs collected by J. W. Tabor and Margaret Tabor dating to circa 1895 and depicting Portland, Oregon, Celilo Falls, and Granite, Oregon.