Title:
John Elliott Patterson photograph archive of western landscape views
Creator/Contributor:
Patterson, John Elliott, 1887-1962, creator
Abstract:
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-ca
Wilderness areas -- West (U.S.) -- Photographs
Petroglyphs -- California -- Tule Lake -- Photographs
Spanish mission buildings -- California -- Photographs
Photography -- Printing processes
California -- Pictorial works
Oregon -- Pictorial works
West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works
Lassen Peak Region (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Shasta, Mount, Region (Calif.) -- 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
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.
Collection title devised by cataloger.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for use.
John Elliott Patterson was a forest entomologist with the US Bureau of Entomology, an amateur ornathologist, and an amateur
photographer. He first worked in the Pacific Northwest (1913-1929), then in California at the Berkeley Forest Insect Laboratory.
In 1950 he retired to Ashland, Oregon.
List of contents available in library.
Type:
graphic
Physical Description:
graphic
photoprint
3 boxes (ca. 800 photographic prints): b&w; 11 x 16 cm or smaller.
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 2003.010--PIC box 1
BANC PIC 2003.010--PIC box 2
BANC PIC 2003.010--PIC box 3
BANC PIC 2003.010
BANC PIC 2003.010
Origin:
California
Copyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for use.