Photographs of Okanogan County, Washington, 1907-1913.

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Photographs of Okanogan County, Washington, 1907-1913.

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Photographic prints depicting pioneer life in Okanogan County, Washington, including scenes of work and entertainment. The photographs have been sorted into subject groupings and roughly organized into six series. Series I. People includes individual and group portaits, children, Judge William Compton Brown's animals, athletics, Indians, and horsemen; Series II. Places consists of photographs of the Columbia River and cities in Washington State such as, Conconully, Fort Okanogan, Malott, Okanogan, Omak, and Riverside; Series III. Things includes automobiles, homesteads and ranches, horse-drawn vehicles, houses, and orchards; Series IV. Activities entails scenes of farming, irrigation projects in Okanogan, construction of the Conconully Dam and the Elgin Canyon Road; Series V. Scrapbook includes mounted prints; and Series VI. Oversize consists of photographs of athletic groups.

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Washington State University, Holland and Terrell Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7439221

Washington State University, Holland and Terrell Libraries

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Brown, William Compton, 1869-1963

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William Compton Brown was born and raised in Minnesota. He received a law degree in 1891 from the University of Minnesota. His law practice began in Minnesota. Through a "freak fusion" of the local government, Brown was elected county attorney of Marshall County in 1893. He was 22 years old at the time of this appointment. Mr. Brown came out to the Pacific Coast in 1897, traveled extensively in the area, and after being granted the right to practice law in Washington he set up a practice in Repu...

Matsura, Frank, 1873-1913

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Frank S. Matsura arrived in the United States from Japan in 1905, settling briefly in Seattle before crossing the Cascades to take a job at the Elliot Hotel in Conconully, Washington, as a handyman. In 1907 he moved to Okanogan, Washington, and opened a photography studio, which he operated until his death from tuberculosis in 1913 at the age of 32. Judge William C. Brown served as administrator of Matsura's effects and gained custody of his photographs. As one of Matsura's closest friends, Judg...