cellulose nitrate film

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Black and white photographs of the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland, Oregon, taken by amateur photographer Mary Louisa Allen and primarily depicting buildings and statuary. The collection contains prints and corresponding negatives, as well as a small number of negatives for which there is no print.

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Negatives taken and compiled by Oregon-based mining and civil engineer W. R. Canton from approximately 1903 to 1930. Subjects include mining sites and camps in Southern Oregon and Nevada, student life at the University of Washington Mining Engineering College, and Canton family snapshots.

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Small collection of six negatives, taken in approximately 1909, that depict Council Crest Amusement Park in Portland, Oregon. The amusement park operated at the top of Council Crest from 1907 to 1929.

Abstract This collection consists of original sheet film negatives taken by Marie Holst Pottsmith, the bulk of which she made during the eight months of 1908 that she taught in the remote Finnish community of Hamlet, Oregon. These images document people, farming, and community life in Hamlet. Other photos in the collection depict her studies at the University of Oregon; her time teaching at Fisher, Washington; and her early married life as a Presbyterian minister’s wife in Washington and Oregon. The...

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Collection consists of nitrate negatives of Oregon and Washington scenes from approximately 1905-1910, including images of the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland, Oregon. The photographs were taken by J. Enos Wait (1870-1947), a dentist from Superior, Nebraska.