Historical Photograph Collection
The Angelus Studio photograph collection, 1880s-1940s

 

Collection number: PH 037

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Historical Sketch:

The Angelus Studio Photographic Collection is comprised of: glass plate, nitrate, and safety negatives; original and reprinted photographs, and logbooks from the photographic studios of George M. Weister (1862-1922), Arthur M. Prentiss (unknown) and the Angelus Commercial Photo Company of Portland, Oregon. Photographic negatives and images within this collection are currently housed using three separate numbering systems: the University of Oregon Special Collections numbering (Boxes 1-185), the Angelus Studio category abbreviation and negative numbering (Boxes 186-211) and negatives grouped by the photographer’s original numbering (Boxes 212-232). Since Special Collections was unable to reprocess the entire collection into a unified numbering and indexing system, current efforts have focused on rehousing negatives in appropriate storage boxes, identifying damaged or missing negatives from those numbered using the University of Oregon Special Collections system (Boxes 1-185) and developing a shelf list of the entire collection. Existing finding aids for the collection include a computer inventory and index for images P1-P4500, and a guide to a collection of 598 images selected from the Angelus Studio negatives by Works Progress Administration workers in 1940. Due to the subsequent renumbering and rearrangement of the collection the W.P.A guide needs to be cross-referenced with the University of Oregon numbering system.

Scope and Contents:

The rodeo images of this collection form part of the Pendleton Group, a series of photograph collections from the Pendleton area, 1880s-1940s. Images from certain photographers, such as Bowman, may be found in many of these collections. The Pendleton Group includes the Lee Drake photographs (PH 021), the Lee Moorhouse photographs (PH 036), the Charles W. Furlong photographs (PH 244), the Walter S. Bowman photographs (PH 004), and the Electric Studio/O.G. Allen photographs (PH 033). Related images are also held in the Print Collection (PH 035) and the Park Weed Willis photographs (PH 288).

Provenance: The collection was donated to the University by Furlong in 1965.

Extent: 87 linear ft. (293 containers)

Access restrictions: None.

Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Angelus Studio Collection, PH 037-[image number], Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1299.

Related materials:

The rodeo images of this collection form part of the Pendleton Group, a series of photograph collections from the Pendleton area, 1880s-1940s. Images from certain photographers, such as Bowman, may be found in many of these collections. The Pendleton Group includes the Lee Drake photographs (PH 021), the Lee Moorhouse photographs (PH 036), the Charles W. Furlong photographs (PH 244), the Walter S. Bowman photographs (PH 004), and the Electric Studio/O.G. Allen photographs (PH 033). Related images are also held in the Print Collection (PH 035) and the Park Weed Willis photographs (PH 288). Other Furlong collections at the University of Oregon include the Charles W. Furlong papers, 1895-1965, Ax 698, and Miscellaneous Subject Files—Box 8.
Other significant Furlong collections are held by Dartmouth College (Stef. Mss. 197, http://olympia.dartmouth.edu/library/ead/html/stem197.html) and the World War I, Hoover Institution (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf4z09n712).

Publication rights: Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish images must be submitted to the Photographs Curator of Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.

Processed by: Normandy S. Helmer

Date Completed: December 1993

 

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Last Modified: July 16, 2008
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