(en) Photographer Arthur Prentiss. Columbia river Highway construction, Oregon

 

This pictures shows one of the most famous sections of the Columbia River Highway, the Hood River Loops, Columbia River Highway near Hood river.
 

This highway is a United States National Landmark and also a Scenic Highway. The construction began in 1913, through the mountains and lands of this west side of United States, the state of Oregon. It was an important achivement because the difficulty of its engineering and importance of the communication.

The photographer Arthur Prentiss made an album of the construction of these highway. In this case, it shows in the middle of the image, as the key part, the loops through a hill, with a house in the front that states the image in the begging of the XIX century.

Arthur Prentiss focused his work in Oregon. He worked with Benjamin Gifford and George Weister. Some of his pictures belong to the most important historic photographic archive of the United States, the FSA (Farm Security Administration).

Links:

• Wikipedia Historic Columbia highway
• Wikipedia Arthur Prentiss
• Wild Beauty exhibition in Portland Art Museum
• See full album of the Columbia river highway
• • Collections with Prentiss vintage photographs (alone and in associaton with Gifford)
     
  • Angelus Studio Photograps University of Oregon. Historic Photographs Collections: George Weister founded the studio, and had negatives dating back to 1872. He worked as an official photographer for a railroad company. The bulk of his work was commercial photography. According to the typewritten paper, and ms notes, he died in 1918 or 1922 or 1923. Upon Weister's death (or disability) he sold his studio to Arthur Prentiss, who had worked for him since 1910 ( Oregon Photographers by Thomas Robinson)
  • Brice P. Disque Photographs. University of Oregon  Historic Photograph collections
  • Gerald W. Williams Collection Oregon State Libraries  University Archives
  • Kiser Photo Co. Photographes. Oregon State Libraries University Archives
  • Gifford’s Photographes Collection. Oregon State Libraries University Archives
  • Photographs by Prentiss are included in the "Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection" hold in the Library of Congres. These photographs are a National Landmark of the history of the United States:The black-and-white photographs of the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection are a landmark in the history of documentary photography. The images show Americans at home, at work, and at play, with an emphasis on rural and small-town life and the adverse effects of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and increasing farm mechanization. Some of the most famous images portray people who were displaced from farms and migrated West or to industrial cities in search of work.
  •  Search Library Congress Arthur Prentiss
  • • Forest trail in Washington
    [between 1935 and 1942] | 1 negative | Prentiss, Arthur M.
    LC-USF34- 014442-C [P&P] | LC-USF34-014442-C (b&w film nitrate neg.)  
  • •  Equipment of the high climber. Washington
    [between 1935 and 1942] | 1 negative | Prentiss, Arthur M.
    LC-USF34- 014443-C [P&P] | LC-USF34-014443-C (b&w film nitrate neg.)