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Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 426 Collections and/or Records:

Frank C. Hirahara photographs collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1078
Abstract

Photographs taken by Frank C. Hirahara of Patti Throop, a Portland Rose Festival princess who became Miss Oregon in 1953 and was a semi-finalist in the Miss America contest of 1954. Hirahara was an amateur photographer who lived in Portland, Oregon, from 1948 to 1954 and was a member of the Photographic Society of America, the Portland Photographic Society, and the Oregon Camera Club.

Dates: 1951-1952

Historic Columbia River Highway photographic album

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 267
Abstract

Commercially produced photograph album of scenes along the Columbia River Highway in Oregon. The album includes promotional text about the highway and the Columbia River Gorge, and 35 black and white photographs of the highway and sights including Vista House and Crown Point, waterfalls, rock formations, Mount Hood, and the Columbia River.

Dates: circa 1922-1939

Historic Columbia River Highway photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 263
Abstract

Seven black and white photographs of sights along the original Columbia River Highway, including: Vista House, the Mitchell Point Tunnel, Horsetail Falls, Mt. Hood, Multnomah Falls, and Wahkeena Falls.

Dates: circa 1922-1939

Hockenyos family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 252
Abstract Papers of the Hockenyos family, including legal and financial papers, photographs, greeting cards, and ephemera. The collection reflects the lives of brothers Henry Hockenyos (1861-1935) and George Hockenyos (1864-1917), and George Hockenyos' children George F. Hockenyos (1897-1966) and Marie E. Hockenyos (1905-1999). George Hockenyos and Henry Hockenyos worked in the carpentry business in Portland, Oregon, and George Hockenyos later managed a grocery store there. Henry Hockenyos and George...
Dates: 1891-1968

Millard C. Holbrook photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: Album 236
Abstract

One album of black and white photographs depicting Millard C. Holbrook and Company H of the 2nd Regiment of the Oregon Volunteers in the Philippines during the Spanish American War.

Dates: circa 1898-1901

Florence Hollister photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 836
Abstract

Collection consists of three photographs of Florence Hollister, wife of Claude N. Hollister. The images are a head and shoulders portrait of Hollister; a full-length portrait of Hollister as matron of honor at a 1935 wedding; and a photograph, credited to the Army Air Forces, of Hollister in uniform.

Dates: circa 1935-1943

Hollywood Place photograph albums

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1435
Abstract

Two copies of a photograph album with the text "Hollywood Place / August 1922" printed on the cover in gold. The albums each contain the same five black and white photographs of the grounds, plantings, and landscaping at a residence, possibly the W. C. Holman residence on SW Riverside in the Dunthorpe area of Portland, Oregon. One album also contains four additional loose black and white prints, depicting additional scenes of plantings, grounds, and a tennis court.

Dates: 1922 August

Holtz Building construction photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: Album 338
Abstract

Album containing 31 black and white photographs showing construction of the Holtz Building (now the Mead Building) at 421 SW 5th Ave. in Portland, Oregon, in 1911 and 1912. The building was designed by the architecture firm of Doyle, Patterson, & Beach, and was constructed by the Brayton Engineering Company.

Dates: 1911-1912

Horseback Honeymoon photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 451
Abstract

Small collection of black and white photographs taken during Ella Allen Scott and Quincy Scott's 1907 honeymoon trip, made on horseback, from Minnesota to Washington State. Quincy Scott (1882-1965) was a longtime editorial cartoonist for the Oregonian newspaper in Portland. Ella Allen Scott (1882-1971), also an artist, worked in book and magazine illustration, was dean of women at the University of Montana, and later exhibited and sold paintings.

Dates: 1907

Jack Huisman photographs collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1075
Abstract

Snapshots of naval activities in Portland, Oregon, taken by naval officer Jack Huisman. Includes images of the Portland recruiting barracks and ship commissioning.

Dates: circa 1943