(en) Vintage photography Oregon, Highway. Photographer Arthur Prentiss

 


This picture depicts one of the highways of Oregon's the "John Day River Highway"


 
The title of this photographs is "John Day River and Rim Rocks. John Day Highway in Wheeler County".
Prentiss collected here another view of this Oregon Trail near the Columbia River Highway and intersects with U.S. Route 395.
The desolation of the landscape, not devoid of beauty by the proximity of the river, shows the difficulty of the work of opening new roads in the western U.S. state of Oregon.
Prentiss, a photographer based in Oregon had its main studio in Portland. Previously shared a studio with George Benjamin Gifford and Weisten.

Links:

• Route 395 Wikipedia
• Wikipedia Arthur Prentiss
• Oregon Gov
• See 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.
•  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.)