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| Spanish-American War photographs collection, 1895–1932 (inclusive) 1898–1901 (bulk) |
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| Quantity: .85 cubic feet ( 2,043 photographs, 424 photomechanical prints, and 94 lantern slides in 16 document boxes and oversize boxes) |
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This collection contains photographs taken and collected by United States soldiers, sailors, and nurses during the Spanish-American War in 1898 and its aftermath, and during the Philippine-American War in 1899–1903. Photographic prints, photograph albums, photomechanical prints, lantern slides, and stereographs depict battle scenes, military posts at home and abroad, portraits of enlisted men, and views of the countries in which the soldiers traveled and fought. |
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This collection contains 21 boxes of photographs. Though the bulk of the images date from 1898–1902, there are also photographs in this collection from as early as 1895 and as late as 1932. |
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Loose images depict military scenes at home and abroad. Subjects include land and sea battles, military fortifications, naval ships, and United States regiments (including the 2nd Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment) and encampments in Cuba and the Philippines, as well Army posts and military hospitals in the United States. These include a series of photographs taken or collected by John Wells Gemmill, depicting Company k of the 2nd United States Infantry Regiment in Cuba during the war. There are also portraits of enlisted American soldiers and sailors, veterans, and some doctors and nurses who served during wartime. Other loose photographs depict views of the countries and towns abroad in which the soldiers served and traveled, including China, Cuba, Japan, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico, as well as their native peoples. |
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Eleven photograph albums contain images taken by professional photographers, as well as collected and taken by soldiers and sailors who served during the war from 1898–1903. Most notable are an album of photographs of United States soldiers in Cuba, taken in 1898 by John C. Hemment for William Hearst and presented to the U.S.S. Oregon in 1901; two albums depicting the surrender of Filipino military leader Juan Cailles in 1901; and one album of photos taken by an unidentified sailor serving on the U.S.S. Monterey from 1902–1903. Other albums depict military scenes and landscapes in Cuba and the Philippines, military posts in the United States, and U.S. soldiers at home and abroad. |
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Other photographers include Spanish-American war nurse Clara Chatfield Ott; soldiers Emil Scherbler, Amos Patriquin, and Edward McConnell; and stereoview photographers John F. Jarvis (Washington, D.C.), Benjamin West Kilburn (Littleton, N.H.), Benjamin Lloyd Singley, Strohmeyer & Wyman (New York, N.Y.), and Underwood & Underwood (New York, N.Y.), and many others. Also note that many of the photographs in this collection are identified with donor names and museum numbers from the U.S.S. Oregon Museum. The museum donated the bulk of this collection to the Oregon Historical Society. |
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This collection includes photographic prints, panoramic photographs, photographic postcards, photomechanical prints, stereographs, and glass lantern slides.
New OHS Research Library Collections
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ACCESSION 26084. Peter Kerr was a prominent Oregon grain exporter. Born in Scotland in 1862, he came to Portland in 1888 and eventually established a large home and garden in the Dunthorpe area. Completed in 1916, the house is now owned by the Episcopal Diocese and is known as the Bishop's Close. The Kerr collection includes personal diaries of Peter Kerr and an extensive photographic record of the house and gardens, including several "autochrome" slides — one of the earliest true color photographic processes.
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ACCESSION 26165. One of Oregon's enduring political legends, Monroe Sweetland (1910–2006) was a champion of progressive causes throughout his long life. A native of Salem, Oregon, he grew up in Oregon and Michigan and began his political career in the 1930s as a socialist, and then became a New Deal Democrat. After service in World War II, he returned to Oregon and was elected to the Democratic National Committee in 1948. He led the resurgence of the Democratic Party in Oregon, was elected to the state legislature in 1952, and served there for the next ten years. After unsuccessful bids for the office of secretary of state, he moved to San Mateo, California, and worked with the National Education Association, becoming the prime mover behind the Bilingual Education Act of 1968. Returning to Oregon in the 1990s, he remained active in state politics until the end of his life. The collection includes photographs, correspondence, subject files, personal documents, and a diary kept by Sweetland when he was a teenager.
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ACCESSION 26113. Currently being processed, the collection contains five (5) cartons of records of the Lesbian Community Project of Portland, including minutes, correspondence, reports, subject files, newsletters, and audio cassette tapes.
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ACCESSION 26111. Now cateloged as Coll 53, the collection contains one (1) journal, written in 1908, containing entries made by a Portland streetcar supervisor or conductor in the course of his work. The journal includes details of accidents, collisions, track and stock conditions, and other activities. Entries written in "Excelsior daily journal for 1907."
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ACCESSION 26109. This collection contains records of the Professional Women's League, a Portland organization founded in 1912, including correspondence, minutes of meetings, financial records, membership lists, and publicity materials.
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ACCESSION 26099. The collection is comprised of eleven (11) audio cassettes containing an oral history interview with Lajos Balogh — conductor of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony — biographical information, photographs, and release form.
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ACCESSION 26093. This collection of thirty-two (32) black and white photographs, two (2) black-and-white strip negatives, three (3) color slides, and one (1) program contains materials from the Port of Vancouver relate to shipbuilding, shipping activities, port facilities, dredging, floods, the Columbia River and Gorge, and Mt. Hood.
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ACCESSION 26088. This collection contains photographs, scrapbook, and ephemera relating to the Club Shangri-La, which was active in the 1940s and located on NW Glisan Street between 4th and 5th Avenues, Portland, and some family photographs. Barbara Hall's husband, John Hall, was the owner of the club.
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