Clyde A. Putnam photographs collection [graphic], 1873-1923 ; bulk: 1912-1923.

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Putnam, Clyde A., 1889-1952,. Clyde A. Putnam photographs collection [graphic], 1873-1923 ; bulk: 1912-1923.

Clyde A. Putnam photographs collection [graphic], 1873-1923 ; bulk: 1912-1923.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68627111

This collection mostly contains photographs and nitrate negatives taken by Clyde A. Putnam (1889-1920) from 1912-1923. Putnam was the Camera Department manager for Meier & Frank Co. department store in Portland, Or., as well as a member of the Oregon Camera Club. Many of the photographs are portraits of his wife, Bertha, and son, Clyde, Jr. (b. 1910), as well as other unidentified people. There are also many views taken by Putnam of the Oregon camera Club trip to the Bonneville, Or. area in 1917, as well as other views of places in Oregon. Most of the negatives in this collection have corresponding prints. The other photographs in this collection are studio photographs of unidentified people taken by Buchtel & Stolte and William H. Towne of Portland, Or., circa 1873-1884; the subjects may be relatives of the Putnam family.

0.72 cubic feet (178 photographic prints and 140 nitrate negatives in 2 boxes).

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