Marie Holst Pottsmith photographs 1908-circa 1956 1908-1919

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Marie Holst Pottsmith photographs 1908-circa 1956 1908-1919

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This collection contains prints made from original glass plate 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, Or. The images provide good documentation of the people, farming, and community life in Hamlet, and other photos in this collection depict her studies at the University of Oregon, teaching at Fisher, Wash., and her early married life as a Presbyterian minister’s wife in Washington and Oregon. The collection also includes prints made at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library from the original negatives.

0.36 cubic feet; 129 photographs in 1 box

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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University of Oregon. Center for Teaching Writing

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Pottsmith, Marie Holst, b. 1882-

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Marie M. Holst Pottsmith (1882-circa 1973) was drawn to Oregon from the Dakotas by the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition. The young school teacher decided to remain in Oregon and taught at Keizer, 1905-1907, to earn tuition for the University of Oregon’s teacher training program at Eugene. Pottsmith was advised to teach in a mountain school, where the school year runs from spring through early fall, to make the most of her time before college started. She began her journey to the moun...