Chalcraft-Pickering Photographs, 1862-1941

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Chalcraft-Pickering Photographs, 1862-1941

1862-1941

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Included in the collection are 105 family portraits and 3 boxes of lantern slides. The family portraits depict Edwin L. Chalcraft, his wife, Alice Fawcett (Pickering) Chalcraft, their children, Edwin Pickering Chalcraft and Alice Pickering Chalcraft, as well as sundry relatives. There is also a portrait of William Pickering, Governor of Washington Territory from 1862-1866. The majority of the glass lantern slides are scenes of the grounds, buildings and students at Chemawa, an Indian Training School near Salem, Oregon. Included are classroom scenes, sports, music, and work activities of the students. The slides are assumed to be the work of Edwin L. Chalcraft and bear his descriptive notes along the binding tape.

2.5 Linear feet of shelf space, (4 Boxes + Oversize)

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Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6373933

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U.S. Indian School (Chemawa, Salem, Or.)

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Chalcraft, Edwin L.

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Edwin Chalcraft was an Indian agency teacher in Chehalis, Washington, Chemawa, Oregon, and other agencies in Wyoming, Oklahoma and Oregon. From the description of Chalcraft-Pickering Photographs, 1862-1941. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 42027041 From the description of Chalcraft/Pickering family papers, 1821-1954. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29853369 Edwin L. Chalcraft was born near Albion, Illinois on November 11, 1855. H...

Pickering, William T., 1798-1873

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Pickering, a native of England, settled in Albion, Illinois in the 1820s. He served in the Illinois state legislature (1842-1852). Lincoln appointed Pickering territorial governor of Washington in 1862. Pickering served until 1866. From the description of Telegram, September 1864. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 304436193 William Pickering was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1798 and graduated from Oxford University in 1820. In 1821 he moved to Ill...

Historical Photograph Collections. waps

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Chalcraft, Edwin, 1855-

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Edwin L. Chalcraft Edwin L. Chalcraft was born on November 13, 1855, on his father's farm near Albion, Illinois, where he lived until his marriage to Alice Pickering on October 13, 1880. The following summer, Edwin, a teacher in the Albion Public School and a county surveyor, and Alice also a school teacher, accepted the invitation of her brother William to visit him in "Squak Valley" (now Issaquah), thirteen miles east of Seattle. Originally they had planned...