Carleton E. Watkins photographs [graphic], 1861-1885.

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Carleton E. Watkins photographs [graphic], 1861-1885.

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Photographs taken by Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916), renowned landscape photographer of the nineteenth-century American West. The images were taken from 1861-1885, most during Watkins' trips to Oregon (including Portland) and the Columbia River in 1867, 1883, and the winter of 1884-1885. There are also photographs from his 1882 journey to photograph Puget Sound in the Washington Territory and Victoria in British Columbia., as well as views of Yosemite, the Farallon islands and other scenes of the California coast, California mountains such as Mount Shasta, and views of Utah taken for the Union Pacific Railroad. Additonally, the collection contains cabinet card portraits taken by Watkins of various people, including Oregon railroad financier Simeon Gannett Reed and members of the family of banker Cornelius C. Beekman (1828-1915) of Jacksonville, Or. Though the bulk of the collection is made up of loose photographs, including stereographs, cabinet cards, cartes de visite, boudoir cards, and mammoth plate photographs, there are also two photograph albums entitled "Sun Sketches of Columbia River Scenery (1883) and "Great Storm of the Winter 1884-1885. Columbia River, Or.," containing images taken by Watkins during two separate trips to the Columbia River. Includes some Watkins photographs published under the imprint of Isaiah W. Taber after 1876.

9.5 cubic feet (426 photographs in 1 document box, 2 card file boxes, 2 oversize boxes, and 2 volumes in 2 oversize boxes; 100 loose mammoth plate photographs).

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Beekman, Cornelius C. (Cornelius Compton), 1828-1915

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Reed, Simeon Gannett, 1830-1895.

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Simeon Reed was born in 1830 in Massachusetts. After several jobs in commerce, he married Amanda Wood, and in 1852 they sailed to San Francisco. That same year they moved to Portland, where he worked in William Ladd's general merchandise store, becoming a partner four years later. He helped organize and run the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, which monopolized commercial traffic on the Columbia River and from which he reaped much profit before it sold in 1879. Reed bought farms, owned several m...

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

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Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West), 1830-1912

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Morris Badt was born in Schwersenz, Posen, Germany in 1830. He emigrated to New York in 1847 and moved to San Francsico in 1851, where he established a mercantile business. He later established businesses in Elko and Wells, Nevada. He married Lena Posener in 1868. Badt died in San Francisco in 1899. Mirel Lipshuetz Badt was the stepmother of Morris Badt. (From genealogical information provided by donors.) From the description of Morris Badt family portraits [graphic]. ca. 1880-ca. 18...