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Materials related to Joseph Buchtel, a Portland photographer and inventor. Collection includes receipts, 1859-1864; photocopy newspaper clippings; U.S. patents for Joseph Buchtel, Henry Stutsman and Eugene D. White for miscellaneous inventions, 1896-1899; printed ephemera; and diary extracts.

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Papers of Charles Butterworth (1858-1936), a photographer and painter in Portland, Oregon, and his daughter, Esther Butterworth (1889-1976), also a photographer. Materials include correspondence, family history and genealogical materials, and Charles Butterworth's studio log books. Also included is a book of minutes of the Trails Club of Oregon, 1928-1930.

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Oral history interview with Lew Cook conducted by Martha Gies in two sessions on June 20 and June 26, 1979. Cook discusses the difficulty of safely storing nitrate film, which can spontaneously combust; talks about spending time at Portland’s Film Row in the early 1920s; and describes running his own business showing films in towns around Oregon.

Abstract Includes work by photographer Al Monner for the Oregon Journal newspaper from 1936 to 1974. A small selection of pre-1938 photographs were likely taken for the Oregonian newspaper, where Monner worked from 1936 to 1938. The photographs cover a wide variety of people and topics, primarily in the greater Portland area. Of particular interest are photographs documenting World War II efforts in Portland, as well as large dam-building projects. Large-format negatives from 1936 to 1959 have been...

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Oral history interview with Al Monner conducted by Donald J. Sterling from February 25 to March 4, 1993. Monner was a photographer for the Oregon Journal and the Oregonian newspapers in Portland, Oregon.

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Collection includes articles of incorporation, minutes, stockholder lists and other administrative documents.

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Oral history interview with Leo F. Simon conducted by Linda S. Dodds on February 7, 1980. Simon discusses his career as a commercial photographer in Portland, Oregon.