Photographs of the family of Portland businessman Simon Benson and his second wife, Pamelia Loomis, including sons Chester Simon Benson and Gilbert Thereon Benson, and grandchildren Gilbert Thomas Benson and Margaret Benson (later Margaret Maradudin).

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.