Theodore Gegoux and George Himes correspondence [manuscript], 1913-1925.

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Theodore Gegoux and George Himes correspondence [manuscript], 1913-1925.

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Collection includes letters between Theodore Gegoux, a French-Canadian painter residing in Aurora, Or., and George H. Himes of the Oregon Historical Society, discussing the acquisition of photographs for the painting and later sale of twenty-nine oil portraits of Portland mayors to the Oregon Historical Society, 1913-1925. Biography of Gegoux is included in the collection.

.04 cubic feet (3 folders)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7957246

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Gegoux, Theodore, 1850-1931.

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Himes, George H., 1844-1940

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George H. Himes was the curator of the Oregon Historical Society. From the description of History of immigration to Oregon, undated. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 64446580 Historian, curator, and printer George Henry Himes was born on May 18, 1844 in Troy, Pennsylvania, and he came overland to the Oregon Territory with his family in 1853. They settled near Olympia, Washington, where Himes's father Tyrus took up farming. George...