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Portrait photography

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Maida Rossiter Bailey photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1158
Abstract Collection consists of black and white photographs, and a small number of tintypes, most compiled into two photograph albums. One album includes professional portraits of members of the Bailey, Price, Brooks, Hopper, Mellon, Roberts, Westcott, and Stroud families. The other includes snapshots of rural areas, people, and livestock in North Carolina, Florida, Key West and Arizona. Maida Rossiter Bailey (died 1972) was the dean of Women at Reed College and owned a ranch with her husband,...
Dates: circa 1865-1899

Cased photographs collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1414
Abstract

Collection consists of approximately 630 cased photographs, including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes (also called ferrotypes) dating from approximately 1840-1900. The photographs are primarily portraits of early migrants to Oregon and the western United States. Also represented are early Oregon street and residential scenes.

Dates: 1840-2000; Majority of material found within 1840-1900

Oral history interview with Cherie Hiser

 Collection
Identifier: SR 3125
Abstract

Oral history interview with Cherie Hiser conducted by Jim Morris on December 6, 1981. Hiser was a photographer best known for her self-portraits.

Dates: 1981 December 6

Betty Huser photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 562
Abstract

Twelve black and white portrait photographs, primarily of men. Only one person, E. S. Inglis, is identified. The photographs were from the office of the Phil Grossmayer Co., an insurance company in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: circa 1930-1939

Marston family photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: Album 643
Abstract

Album containing black and white photographs and tintypes, primarily studio portraits of unidentified people, particularly children. A number of the portraits were taken by studios in Wisconsin. With the album are a poem about a dog by Elwyn Marston, age 11, of Columbus, Wisconsin; a silk 48-star U.S. flag; and two loose photographs.

Dates: circa 1850-1880

Unidentified family photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: Album 344
Abstract

Album containing black and white card photographs and tintypes. The images are portraits of mostly unidentified individuals and groups, both adults and children. Identified individuals include: Hattie A. Ware, Charlie Sheldon, L. M. Gammer, C. K. Sherwood, Tom A. Sheldon, Edwin Booth, June Clifford and M. Alice Mallery.

Dates: 1861-1871

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