(en) Vintage photography Columbia River Highway, Oregon.
This view shows us the place "Looking Mitchell west border point, at Sonny, Hoo River County" in the Historic Columbia River Highway
The point of view of the photographer is, this time, a low to show us how small is man vs. nature.
We see how the road winds through the rocks, clinging to them and in the background, the forests of the area where we distinguish the human footprint on the isolated cabin down the hill.
This highway is today a historical landmark for the American administration that sees it as a National Historic Landmark and National Civil Engineering Landmark.
Arthur Prentiss was a famous photographer of the American West, who collected the life of the Indians and white man's activity in America in the second half of the nineteenth century (with the Spruce Forestry Company is an example). He was alone and study in the company of other famous photographers such as: Benjamin Gifford and George Weisten.
We see how the road winds through the rocks, clinging to them and in the background, the forests of the area where we distinguish the human footprint on the isolated cabin down the hill.
This highway is today a historical landmark for the American administration that sees it as a National Historic Landmark and National Civil Engineering Landmark.
Arthur Prentiss was a famous photographer of the American West, who collected the life of the Indians and white man's activity in America in the second half of the nineteenth century (with the Spruce Forestry Company is an example). He was alone and study in the company of other famous photographers such as: Benjamin Gifford and George Weisten.
Link
- Photos of Prentiss Library of Congress
- Wikipedia Arthur Prentiss
- Wikipedia Columbia River Highway
- Full album
- 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.
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[between 1935 and 1942] | 1 negative | Prentiss, Arthur M.
LC-USF34- 014442-C [P&P] | LC-USF34-014442-C (b&w film nitrate neg.) -
[between 1935 and 1942] | 1 negative | Prentiss, Arthur M.
LC-USF34- 014443-C [P&P] | LC-USF34-014443-C (b&w film nitrate neg.)