Guide to Oregon Girl's Photograph Album MC303
Liz Phillips
University of California, Davis Library,
University Archives
2021
1st Floor, Shields Library, University of
California
100 North West Quad
Davis, CA
speccoll@ucdavis.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Davis Library,
University Archives
Title: Oregon Girl's Photograph Album
Creator:
Anensen, Marie
Identifier/Call Number: MC303
Physical Description:
1
volume
52 stock album leaves. Three real photo postcards
circa 8.5 x 13 cm and 435 original gelatin silver photographs,
including three large loosely inserted photos circa 19.5 x 24
cm, 303 larger mounted photos, circa 8 x 13.5 cm, and 129
smaller ones, circa 5 x 7.5 cm. Three large loose photos signed
"Acme Photo" in negative. The vast majority of the mounted
photos are dated and captioned in white manuscript ink. The
compiler's name is written in white ink on the inner side of
the front board. With two Oregon newspaper clippings dedicated
to the victory in WWI mounted at rear.
26 x 30.5 centimeters
Date (inclusive): circa
1915-1920
Abstract: Extensive collection
of snapshot portraits and scenes illustrating family and social
life in Grants Pass and Portland (Oregon) during and shortly
after WWI through the eyes of Marie Anensen, a young Norwegian
immigrant.
Physical Location: Researchers should
contact Archives and Special Collections to request collections,
as many are stored offsite.
Marie Anensen was a young Norwegian immigrant. Her father
Abraham Anensen (1868–after 1920), who was a baker, brought the
family to the United States in 1905, and Marie graduated either
from Grants Pass High School or from Washington High School
(Portland) in 1916 or 1917. Later in life, she resided in
Portland with her sister Ragna (1902-1986) and worked as a
bookkeeper in the Jones Lumber Co.
An interesting extensive collection of lively snapshot
portraits and scenes illustrating family and social life in
Grants Pass and Portland (Oregon) during and shortly after the
WWI through the eyes of a young Norwegian immigrant, Marie
Anensen. The three large loose photos in the album dating back to
circa late 1920s include two group portraits of the Jones Lumber
Co. associates, including Marie Anensen, and a view of the office
interior with the associates at work. The other photos in the
album date back to Marie Anensen's late teens and early twenties
and include joyful portraits and scenes taken on picnics, family
gatherings, hiking trips and outings with friends near Grants
Pass and elsewhere in Oregon (Slate Creek, Applegate River,
Savage Rapids, Evans Creek, Rogue River, Jones Creek, Cheney
Creek Caves, Klamath Lake, Multnomah Falls and many others).
There are also interesting street views of the Grants Pass (city
park, Anensen family home, new building of the courthouse etc.),
a series of eight photos of the 4th of July parade in Ashville in
1916, five photos of a "football game between Ashland &
Grants Pass, 1917," ferry across Rogue River, St. Vincent
Hospital in Portland, a few photos taken near Crescent City
(California) etc. Numerous portraits feature Marie and her
friends with over a dozen names thoroughly marked (Marie and
Ragna Anensen and their mother, Mary and Barbara Jenkins and
their parents, Mildred Smith, Mary Hackney, Clifford Hansen,
Leonard Kindell, Phil Robin, Carl Schmidt, Mildred Lovelace and
others). Interesting are Marie's portraits taken while playing
ukulele and dressed as a "Persian dancer" or Hawaiian girl,
posing with a "Brownie" camera, wearing an outfit for the Red
Cross fundraiser in February 1918, a portrait of Ragna Anensen
posing in the Girl Scouts uniform near the "New Josephine Hotel"
in Grants Pass etc. The album opens with three real photo
postcards showing Grants Pass high school and two panoramic views
of the "residence section" and Sixth Street.
[Description provided by Wayfarer's Bookshop]
Collection is open for research.
Liz Phillips created this finding aid with information
supplied by Wayfarer's Bookshop.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Wayfarer's Bookshop, 2020.
[Identification of item], Oregon Girl's Photograph Album,
MC303, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library,
University of California, Davis.
All applicable copyrights for the collection are protected
under chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code. Requests for
permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted
in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of the Regents of the University
of California as the owner of the physical items. It is not
intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder,
which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Oregon, Western -- Pictorial
works
Norwegians -- United States
Michael and Margaret B. Harrison
Western Research Center