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photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 473 Collections and/or Records:

Unidentified family vacation photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: Album 703
Abstract

Album containing black and white photographs of an unidentified family vacationing in mostly unidentified places around the United States. Locations include Multnomah Falls and the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon; New England; Niagara Falls; the Southwest; and Yellowstone National Park.

Dates: circa 1920-1929

Unidentified portraits album

 Collection
Identifier: Album 154
Abstract

One album containing 13 black and white photographs and 1 tintype of unidentified adults and children. Only Byron N. Way is identified.

Dates: circa 1860-1899

Unidentified portraits album

 Collection
Identifier: Album 205
Abstract

One album, largely empty, containing nine black and white card photographs. The photographs are studio portraits of unidentified adults; one depicts a family.

Dates: circa 1890-1894

Unidentified San Francisco Bay Area family photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: Album 175
Abstract

One album containing black and white photographs of or relating to members of an unidentified family in the San Francisco Bay Area. Many of the photographs are portraits and snapshots of adults and children. Other subjects include: sheep and cattle ranching; hunting; steamships and sailboats; the Pacific coast; and buildings and scenes in San Francisco.

Dates: circa 1878-1929

United States Marine Corps photographs and ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 572
Abstract

The collection primarily consists of two United States Marine Corps photograph sets: one depicting the barracks at Klamath Falls, Oregon, and the surrounding area; and one depicting the Battle of Kwajalein in the Pacific Theater. Other materials include 3 postcards depicting Marine soldiers training and a hotel in Lakeview, Oregon, and copies of a brochure for the family clinic at the Klamath Falls barracks.

Dates: circa 1942-1945

Photographs of the launching of the U.S.S. Alazon Bay

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1059
Abstract

Photographs of the launching of the escort carrier CVE-55 USS Alazon Bay (later the USS Casablanca), at the Kaiser shipyards, Vancouver, Washington. Includes images of Eleanor Roosevelt at festivities and christening the ship, of Henry Kaiser, and of Josephine Hilda Schmid Coffin, governess to the Kaiser family.

Dates: 1943 April 5

Edward Autrey Valentine photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: Album 892
Abstract

Album of black and white photographs depicting people and places in Northern Italy during the end of World War II, where Edward Autrey Valentine served as a provincial commissioner.

Dates: 1943-1945

Valley Migrant League photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 74
Abstract

Collection consists of photographs taken primarily by staff of the Valley Migrant League for their program newspaper, "Opportunity News." Subjects depicted include VML-sponsored adult education and child care programs, working and living conditions for agricultural migrant laborers, labor organizing activities, and community events.

Dates: 1965-1968

Fanny Van Duyn photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 949
Abstract

Small collection of black and white copy prints of photographs of and taken by Fanny B. Wright Van Duyn of Tygh Valley, Oregon. The bulk of the photographs are portraits of Native people on the Warm Springs Reservation.

Dates: circa 1900-1901

Photographs of the Vanport (Or.) flood

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1363
Abstract

Collection consists of 10 black-and-white photographs of the Vanport flood in 1948, taken by an unidentified photographer. Most of the photographs are aerial views showing the floodwaters, damaged and floating buildings, and other debris. Several photographs show people standing amid the wreckage.

Dates: 1948