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Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Cy Haager Collection: Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SHL208
Abstract

Cy Haager was a photographer at East Side Pharmacy (exact location unknown). The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (B.P.O.E.) is an American fraternal order, originally founded as a social club in 1868 in New York City. The Klamath Falls Order of the Elks was founded in the beginning of the 20th century and is located on Main Street. Collection contains an envelope with 12 black and white photographs, depicting the 1930s and 1940s downtown Klamath Falls.

Dates: 1939-1944

Forest Lumber Company Train: Photograph

 Collection
Identifier: SHL036
Abstract

The Modoc Lumber Company was formed in 1918 by J. O. Goldthwaite. It operated in a company town called Pine Ridge, located on the Klamath Indian Reservation about 2 miles from Chiloquin. It was eventually renamed the Forest Lumber Company. Collection contains a sepia photograph from Harry Mesner collection: a Forest Lumber Company train carrying logs.

Dates: 1927

Japanese WWII Relocation: Photograph

 Collection
Identifier: SHL211
Abstract

In 1942, shortly after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 with the intention of preventing espionage. The result was forced relocation and incarceration of 110,000 to 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in the western part of the country. Collection consists of a black and white photograph on the subject of the Japanese WWII Relocation.

Dates: Undated

Klamath Basin Water Crisis of 2001: Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SHL199
Abstract

Anders Tomlinson is an artist and photographer, who for many years recorded the noteworthy events and beauty of the Klamath Basin in his videos, photographs and on canvas. The collection consists of a CD with color photographs taken by Anders Tomlinson in 2001, at the time of the Klamath Basin water crisis.

Dates: 2001

Klamath Pioneers: Photograph

 Collection
Identifier: SHL035
Abstract

Captain Oliver Cromwell Applegate was an Oregon-native born in 1845. He helped open the Applegate Trail and edited the Klamath Republican newspaper. The Denny Creek marker commemorates the camping site of pioneer John Fremont during his 2nd journey of exploration (1846). Collection contains paper-framed photograph of Captain Applegate in front of the Denny Creek marker, in color.

Dates: 1930

Photograph of Alfred Meacham

 Collection
Identifier: SHL157
Abstract

Alfred Benjamin Meacham was an American Methodist minister, reformer, author and historian, who served as the U.S. Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon 1869 – 1872, and as chairman of the Modoc Peace Commission in 1873. Collection consists of two copies of the black and white photograph of Alfred Meacham, mounted on yellow cardboard.

Dates: Undated

Photographs, 1901-1916

 Series
Scope and Contents

12 black and white photographs in separate envelopes. Most of them have notes and dates on verso. Two of the photographs are from the collection of the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, Oregon. The images are of the areas in the south of Klamath County

Dates: 1901-1916

Potato Processing Plant, Malin, Oregon: Photograph

 Collection
Identifier: SHL086
Abstract

Malin is a town in Southern Oregon, established in 1909 by immigrants from Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. It is famous for its farming, and especially, production of potatoes. Collection consists of a black and white photograph of an unidentified man packaging U.S. No 1 potatoes in a plant in Malin, Oregon.

Dates: Undated