Jesse G. Sill photographs collection [graphic], circa 1915-1976.

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Jesse G. Sill photographs collection [graphic], circa 1915-1976.

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Photographs and negatives taken and collected by Jesse G. Sill, a newsreel photographer from Portland, Or. who was the first to set up a motion picture camera on a mountain on Mount Adams in 1914 and the first to take an aerial motion picture of Mount Hood, in 1925. Subjects include the Pendelton Round-Up; Sill's pioneering boat trip down the Salmon River with a motion picture camera in 1915; Sill and other photographers transporting and setting up camera equipment, as well as filming, in various locations; newsreel scenes and theatrical stills; and portraits of Sill. Also includes clippings and other background material, as well as safety film negatives.

Unprocessed collection: Approx 2.0 cubic feet (1 box, 1 oversize box, and 2 oversize folders of photographs and safety film negatives; 4 boxes of nitrate negatives).

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Sill, Jesse G., 1881-1891

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Sill, Jesse G., 1881-1981.

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Jesse G. Sill was born in 1881 in Illinois and died in 1981 in Portland, Oregon. From the guide to the Jesse G. Sill papers, 1911-1978, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) Jesse G. Sill was born in 1881 in Illinois and died in 1981 in Portland, Oregon. He was a pioneer newsreel photographer who first filmed the Rose Festival in 1912. He started free-lancing as a camera operator in the movies in 1912. He was the first to take aerial photograp...