Photographs from Arthur G. Stivers (1855-1929) family album

Item

Title

Photographs from Arthur G. Stivers (1855-1929) family album

Date Created

1904 – 1907

Description

Images are: 1. Unknown train station with several men and a woman holding her hat against the wind milling around 2. First Congregational church located at 1126 S. W. Park Avenue, Portland, Oregon; built 1889-1895 3. Boat ride flume into Guild Lake at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 1905 4. Street scene in Portland, Oregon. On the left is the Hotel Portland, built in 1890 and torn down in 1950; clock tower building in the background. This area is now (2003) the site of Pioneer Courthouse Square 5. Foreign Nations building with a fountain in front, part of Lewis and Clark Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 1905 6. Street scene at the Lewis and Clark Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 1905 7. Foreign Nations building at the Lewis and Clark Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 1905. Photographs from a disassembled album, original order maintained. Contains local scenes and individuals as well as family trips showing Arthur G. Stivers, his wife Sarah Frances Pickens Stivers, older son Winthrop, younger son Frank, older daughter Bertha, and younger daughter Ruth, among others. The album consists of 42 sheets measuring 28 x 35 cm. (11 x 13 3/4 in.). Many images are silvering out.

Extent

7 photographs (1 sheet), b&w

Collection

Paul A. Hiener Collection (Acc. 318)

Subject

Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition (1905: Portland, Or.)

Railroad stations.

Street photography -- Oregon -- Portland.

Exhibition buildings -- Oregon -- Portland.

Rights

Copyright Undetermined

Citation

Paul A. Hiener Collection (Acc. 318). Chattanooga Public Library.

Identifier

00002813

Type

Still image

Item sets

Paul A. Hiener collection, 1860-1984