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John Elliott Patterson photograph archive of western landscape views.
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John Elliott Patterson photograph archive of western landscape viewsCreator/Contributor:
Patterson, John Elliott, 1887-1962, creatorAbstract:
Collection consists primarily of scenic landscape views in the American West. Mountains and wilderness landscapes predominate.
452 California views are present, including Mount Lassen and vicinity (34 views), Mono Lake and vicinity (109 views), Siskiyou
and Shasta Counties (68 views), Petroglyphs near Tule Lake (13 images), Yosemite National Park and vicinity (138 views), and
California missions (34 views). Other views are of scenes in Oregon (177 views, including Crater Lake and region, Klamath
River Valley, Klamath Falls, Mt. McLoughlin, Link River, Rogue River Valley, Columbia River Gorge, Hood River Valley, Oregon
desert), Arizona (8 views), Colorado (52 views, including Rocky Mountains and the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River), Montana
(2 views, by Paul J. Fair), Utah (16 views including Zion Park and Bryce Canyons, Wastach Mountains), Washington (3 views),
and Wyoming (11 views, 6 or more by Paul J. Fair). Some views of birds and birds' nests are present, chiefly as examples of
various photographic papers or toners. No photographs of insects are present in this collection, although Patterson is known
to have taken such photographs, some of which were published in entomological journals.
Date:
ca. 1915-ca. 1948 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caWilderness areas -- West (U.S.) -- Photographs
Petroglyphs -- California -- Tule Lake -- Photographs
Spanish mission buildings -- California -- Photographs
Photography -- Printing processes
Missions espagnoles (Édifices) -- Californie -- Photographies
Photographie -- Procédés d'impression
Petroglyphs
Photography -- Printing processes
Spanish mission buildings
Wilderness areas
California -- Pictorial works
Oregon -- Pictorial works
West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works
Lassen Peak Region (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Shasta, Mount, Region (Calif. : Mountain) -- Pictorial works
Siskiyou County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Shasta County (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Mono Lake (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Crater Lake National Park (Or.) -- Pictorial works
Klamath River Valley (Or. and Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Rogue River Valley (Klamath County-Curry County, Or.) -- Pictorial works
Columbia River Gorge (Or. and Wash.) -- Pictorial works
Hood River Valley (Or.) -- Pictorial works
Oregon -- Ouvrages illustrés
Mono, Lac (Calif.) -- Ouvrages illustrés
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- Ouvrages illustrés
Crater Lake National Park (Or.) -- Ouvrages illustrés
Klamath, Vallée du (Or. et Calif.) -- Ouvrages illustrés
Rogue, Vallée du (Or.) -- Ouvrages illustrés
Columbia, Gorge de la (Or. et Wash.) -- Ouvrages illustrés
California
California -- Lassen Peak Region
California -- Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area
California -- Mono Lake
California -- Shasta County
California -- Siskiyou County
California -- Tulelake
California -- Yosemite National Park
Oregon
Oregon -- Crater Lake National Park
Oregon -- Hood River Valley
Oregon -- Rogue River Valley (Klamath County-Curry County)
United States -- Columbia River Gorge
United States -- Klamath River Valley
West United States
Note:
Majority photographed by John Elliott Patterson. Most signed "Patterson" on mount.
Photographs mounted on card stock, most with neat annotations recording the place, the year of the photograph, the photographer's
negative number, and the photographic paper used.
Some duplicates present, printed with noted variations in paper or processing. Collection documents photographer's experiments
in achieving different tones and effects.
Title devised by cataloger.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for use.
List of contents available in library.
John Elliott Patterson was a forest entomologist with the US Bureau of Entomology, an amateur ornathologist, and an amateur
photographer. He first first worked in the Pacific Northwest (1913-1929), then in California at the Berkeley Forest Insect
Laboratory. In 1950 he retired to Ashland, Oregon.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Pictorial works.
Physical Description:
photoprint
3 boxes (ca. 800 photographic prints): b&w; 11 x 16 cm or smaller.
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for use.