Fotografía antigua: VIEWS OF COLUMBIA HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION STATE OF OREGON USA: Photographer Arthur Prentiss
El rastro de Madrid es uno de los sitios que se decía, y todavía se dice por algunos, que se pueden encontrar fotos antiguas. La verdad que hoy es casi imposible y antes era francamente dificil.
Pues bien el álbum titulado
- VIEWS OF COLUMBIA HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION STATE OF OREGON USA
es lo último bueno, y ya pasaron años de ello, que yo encontre en el rastro de Madrid.
Las fotos estan identificadas por un papel cebolla que va separando las fotos con los datos de identificación del lugar.
Las fotos estan identificadas por un papel cebolla que va separando las fotos con los datos de identificación del lugar.
Es un álbum formado por 37 fotos que documentan la construcción de esta mítica autopista americana.
De hecho está considerada por el Gobierno americano como Historic Landmark
De hecho está considerada por el Gobierno americano como Historic Landmark
City/Town: Portland, Columbia River Gorge including the cities of Hood River, and Mosier
La historia de esta autopista y todos los detalles sobre la misma se pueden ver en el documento cuyo link he indicado, siguiendo el texto y las fotografías de este álbum tenemos la visión completa de este bonito e importante enclave.
............The engineer for the highway was Samuel C. Lancaster (1864-1941) and was promoted by Sam Hill and the engineer Samuel C. Lancaster. Sam Hill knew the Switzerland's Axenstrasse, a road built along Lake Lucerne. This Swiss road included a windowed tunnel, and Hill took the idea to build a similar highway through the Columbia River gorge...............
............The engineer for the highway was Samuel C. Lancaster (1864-1941) and was promoted by Sam Hill and the engineer Samuel C. Lancaster. Sam Hill knew the Switzerland's Axenstrasse, a road built along Lake Lucerne. This Swiss road included a windowed tunnel, and Hill took the idea to build a similar highway through the Columbia River gorge...............
La autopista recorre los siguientes condados
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Wasco County
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Hood River County
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Wheeler County
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Wallowa County
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Grant County
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Tillamook County
Todas las fotos del álbum se pueden ver en
- http://photocollection.alonsorobisco.es/columbia_samples.html
Destaquemos del texto de declaración de Historic Landmark el siguiente detalle
..........The Columbia River Highway (CRH) National Historic Landmark District is located in the state of Oregon, along the south side of the Columbia River between the cities of Troutdale (14.2 miles east of Portland) and The Dalles (88 miles east of Portland). The CRH was the first modern highway constructed in the Pacific Northwest and the first scenic highway constructed in the United States. The road became a trunk route from Portland’s large commercial center to
eastern Oregon and points beyond. The highway’s alignment remains true to the plan that Samuel C. Lancaster and others envisioned for its original configuration. The road is the pinnacle of early-20th-century rural highway design created to take visitors to the Columbia River Gorge’s most breathtaking and beautiful natural wonders and scenic vistas.............
eastern Oregon and points beyond. The highway’s alignment remains true to the plan that Samuel C. Lancaster and others envisioned for its original configuration. The road is the pinnacle of early-20th-century rural highway design created to take visitors to the Columbia River Gorge’s most breathtaking and beautiful natural wonders and scenic vistas.............
El autor de las fotos es Arthur Prentiss tal y como se identifica en la contraportada del álbum.
El estudio se denominaba
Arthur M. Prentiss
Oregon Commercial Studio
45 Fourth St. Portland Oregon
Arthur Prentiss was an American photographer born c.1865 and died c.1940.
He started working at
Marshfield, Oregon, in 1908. He worked for the main photographic
studios in Oregon between 1913 and 1922.
He moved to Portland where was an early photographer for the Union Pacific Railroad.
In 1913, the photographer
Arthur Prentiss joined the Weister Company. The Weister Company was
established by George M. Weister in 1895 in Portland, Oregon, selling
lantern slides an photographic supplies.
In 1917 Prentiss joined Benjamin A. Gifford, famous Oregon photographer and established the “Gifford and Prentiss” Inc. The
Gifford & Prentiss Studio was located on SW Washington between
Twelfth and Thirteenth street in Portland and lasted until Gifford
retired in 1920. Note that Benjamin Gifford bought Kiser (Kiser Photo
Co. Photographs) and many of them are housed in the Gifford and
Prentiss photograph collection.
In 1922, Prentiss adquired Weister's Studio and negatives.
Arthur M. Prentiss principal studio, as a single professional photographer, was in 45 Fourth Street in Portland Oregon.
The Gifford photographs collection (Oregon Historical Society, Research Library)contains
photographs taken by Benjamin A. Gifford, working alone and in
partnerships with Herbert Hale as Gifford & Hale and with Arthur
M. Prentiss as Gifford & Prentiss.
Their views of the Columbia River Gorge and the Oregon Coast were published in brochures and other publications.
Photographs by Prentiss are the main part of the nine albums of the Brice P. Disque photographs of the Spruce Production Division of the Bureau of Aircraft Division.
In 1922 Prentiss adquired Weister’ s Studio and negatives.
The University of Oregon
holds “The Angelus Studio photographs collection” which included
photographs by Georges Weister, by Arthur Prentiss and also
photographs from the Angelus Studio Commercial Photo Company.
- Destaquemos que dos fotos de este autor se pueden ver en la sección
Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives:
De la librería del Congreso de Estados Unidos
Las fotos son:
Creator(s): Prentiss, Arthur M., photographerDate Created/Published: [between 1935 and 1942]
Creator(s): Prentiss, Arthur M., photographer
Date Created/Published: [between 1935 and 1942]
Men at work. Columbia River Highway
Clearing and grubbing, in Tillamook county
Exposiciones y colecciones con fotos de Arthur Prentiss
West Portal of the Twin Tunnels,Columbia River Highway, in Wasco county
- Mileposts were established along the CRH at the time of construction.
- New York Public Digital Library
Image Title
: Pioneer statue, campus of the University of OregonCreator
: Prentiss, A. M. (Arthur M.) -- PhotographerItem Physical Description
: 24 x 19 cm.Source
: "The Pageant of America" Collection / v.2 - The Lure of the frontier, a story of race conflict / (unpublished photographs) / Statues and memorials
Bridges in Columbia River Highway
Bridge over the grande Ronde River and O.W.R.& N. Railway tracks near Hilgard, on the old Oregon Trail
Bridge over Grande Ronde River near Perry, Old Oregon Trail, in Union County
O.W.R. & N. Grade Crossing elimination at Hot Lake in Union County, on the old Oregon Trail
Mosier arch Columbia river Highway in Wasco county
Bridge over Nestucca river on the Roosevelt Coast highway near Hebo, in Tillamook County
A photographic survey of the
Columbia River Gorge, comprise some of the most striking and poignant
pictures taken of the area.
Columbia River Highway showing Lopps at Rowena in Wasco county
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Angelus Studio Photograps University of Oregon. Historic Photographs Collections
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Brice P. Disque Photographs. University of Oregon Historic Photograph collections
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Gerald W. Williams Collection Oregon State Libraries University Archives
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Kiser Photo Co. Photographes. Oregon State Libraries University Archives
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Gifford’s Photographes Collection. Oregon State Libraries University Archives
- Northewest Digital Archives:Guide to the Arthur M. Prentiss CollectionA collection of photographs and papers relating to the Columbia Gorge Hotel located in Hood River, Oregon. The photographs from this collection are bound in a single volume labeled from the photographer, Arthur M. Prentiss of Portland, Oregon.
University of Oregon Photograph Collection Arthur Prentiss photographs
Columbia River Highway showing observation Point
Heavy construction near Mitchell point
Along the John Day Highway in Grant county