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On the Trail of the Plume Hunter, Malheur

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Description: A souvenir album of 36 platinum photographic prints chronicling a birdwatching and automobile expedition taken by William L. Finley and his partner Herman Bohlman in the Malheur-Harney Lakes Basin, Oregon, 1908. The title is handwritten in the negative on the opening page, and there is no other writing or text in the album. The men were investigating whether the white heron population had recovered from extensive hunting for their plumes, which were used for women's hats in the 19th century. Photographs depict the men with their automobile and equipment, gazing with binoculars, in a boat, and in a bird blind. Other images include lake scenery, trees, marshes, and other birds; local ranchers and their hunting dogs; and a final image of a fox in the grass.
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Production date: 1908.
Call number: photCL 727
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Automobile travel and mountain climbing photograph album

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The photographs in the album document four different expeditions undertaken in Oregon by four young men who traveled together between 1908 and 1912. The excursions include an ascent of Mount Hood in 1908 (including a stay at the Cloud Cap Inn), a fishing trip on the Nehalem River in 1909, deer hunting near West Fork in 1912, and an undated automobile trip through central Oregon. The album contains 182 black-and-white photographs, several of which were produced by Oregon commercial photographer George M. Weister. The photographs for the first three excursions are captioned; those for the car trip are not.

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Photograph of artwork by Grace Moon entitled "'The Hunter."'

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Family photographs, albums, clippings and other items relating to the early life and career of photographer Carl Moon (1878-1948) and his wife, Grace Moon, who wrote a series of children's books revolving around Hopi and Navajo culture in the Southwest. There are several portraits of both of them and portraits of Moon family members. A photo/clipping album contains many scenes of their early home life in Pasadena, Ca., with their two children, along with clippings about their careers. There is one view of Grace Moon at El Tovar studio in the Grand Canyon. Another album details several generations of the Moon family in photographs dating from the mid-19th to early-20th centuries. Ephemera includes a 1909 brochure for Hotel El Tovar at the Grand Canyon, and diaries and artwork by Carl Moon's family members.

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Photograph album of an automobile road trip titled "Trip West 1928,", (bulk 1928)

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A photograph album documenting an automobile trip taken by friends across the western United States (with excursions into Canada and Tijuana, Mexico), during the summer of 1928. The first page is titled "Trip West 1928" and includes an image of an automobile covered with travel decals captioned: "Home after 10,000 miles." Photographs show the travelers visited many national parks, including Crater Lake, Yellowstone, Glacier, and Yosemite, as well as other tourist attractions such as Garden of the Gods, Pikes Peak, Catalina Island, Hollywood, the Redwood Highway, Vancouver, and Canada's Waterton National Park. Some images show the unidentified young men dealing with automobile trouble, hiking in the mountains, camping, and posing with an "old" and "new" car. The majority of the snapshots were taken in the West, but there are some images of tourist attractions in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, all identified in handwritten captions. The album has three pages titled "My Pals" for autographs; several men and women signed their names and home towns, dated between 1929 and 1933.

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Hunter brand

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Image of a boy in hunting attire standing and holding a rifle.

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Fox hunt at the Riviera Country Club, Santa Monica Canyon

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Image of men and women in hunting attire resting at a wooden fence with their horses and dogs while fox hunting at Riviera Country Club in Santa Monica Canyon in Pacific Palisades, California.

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Richardson Trail. Photo by J. Ironside

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A collection of photographs documenting miner Robert S. Watt and family living in the mountains of Los Angeles County at the turn of the 20th century. Views show daily activities and places visited; people hunting and living in cabins; horses; and a few group portraits, such as Los Angeles County Hospital Nurses on a picnic (1905) with names written on back. Other views show ships and a harbor, possibly in San Pedro, California; Los Angeles buildings (Plaza Church and County Courthouse) and oil wells. Mining scenes include the Watt Mines Supply Co. building in Los Angeles; men at an excavation; stamp mill machinery; a man standing at entrance to mine; and mule teams with supplies. There is also a group of photographs of Alaska, showing trappers, roadhouses, scenery, and a miner staking a claim on a river. There are also two U.S. citizenship certificates for Robert S. Watt (1890) and Alexander Barrie (1901), emigrants from Scotland.

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On the Trail of the Plume Hunter, Malheur

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