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| Kiser Photo Co. Photographs, 1901–1999 Finding aid prepared by Sharon M. Howe and Megan K. Friedel |
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| The Kiser Photo Co. photographs include images produced by the Kiser Brothers, the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition Official Photographic Co., the Kiser Photo Co., and the Winter Photo Co. from 1901 to circa 1927. Other imprints include Fred H. Kiser Studios, Kiser Studios, and Scenic America Company. The collection contains both vintage black-and-white and hand-colored prints, including stereographs and panoramic photographs, as well as copy prints made from original Kiser negatives. The bulk of the images are examples of Kiser's landscape and mountain photography in Montana and Oregon and along the Columbia River Gorge and Columbia River Highway, as well as of various places in Portland. Other subjects include the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, 1904; the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, 1905; landscape photographs taken for railroad companies, 1903–1916; photographs of ships and shipbuilding in the Portland area, taken for the Emergency Fleet Corporation, 1918–1919; and photos of Kiser studio buildings in Portland, 1909–1923. |
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The collection contains contemporary photomechanical reproductions of Kiser photographs, dating from 1903 to circa 1930, including postcards, prints both loose and in albums, and publications with reproductions of Kiser work. Background materials contain biographical notes and the history of Kiser's work with photography, which were gathered during collection processing and date from 1903 to 1999. |
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Many images in the collection were made by the Kiser Brothers or Kiser Photo Company and its photographers but were produced for sale to the public over a long period of time, first by the Kiser Photo Company and then the Winter Photo Company. After Kiser sold part of his business to Winter in 1915, it appears that Kiser continued to make prints from earlier images for which Winter held the negatives, possibly by making copy negatives from original prints. Photographer Benjamin Gifford also bought Kiser negatives and produced them for sale; many of the copy prints in this collection were made from Kiser negatives that are housed in the Gifford and Prentiss photograph collection, Org. Lot 982. |
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