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R.T. Fisher Photographs - Pacific Northwest

• HF-ID: HFP-111
• Category: Visual Materials
• Creator:
  • Fisher, R.T.
  • Osgood, W.H.
  • Sage, J.H.

• Associated Person:
  • Osgood, W.H.
  • Merriam, C. Hart
  • Bailey, Vernon
  • Fisher, Walter K.
  • Merriam, L.L.
  • Sage, J.H.
  • Osgood, C. Sumner
  • Pinchot, Gifford
  • Jones, Bedford
  • Curtis, Frazier
  • James, Henry, 2d
  • Allen, Edward T.
  • James, William, Jr.
  • Hodge, William C.
  • Casey, [?]

• Date: 1898-1901
• Location: California, Oregon, Washington
• Media: Photographs
• Contents:
  • photographs and one lantern slide.

• Abstract:
  • Folder #1 – 1898
  
  
  • (27) approximately 2” x 3.75” b&w photos
  
  
  • Some labeled:
  • Our Camp on the Satsop at Matlock
  • Wagon Camp Shasta ‘98
  • Can. Pac. R.R.
  • Field - Can. Pac. R.R.
  • Mt Hood
  • Mt. Hood from Cloud Cap Inn
  • Squaw Creek
  • Northern Pacific Group of Indians
  
  
  • Folder #2 - 1898
  
  
  • Biological Survey of Mt. Shasta, 1898
  • (64 approximately 3.5” x 4.5”b&w photos (some cropped or torn smaller)
  
  
  • Related people:
  • Osgood, W.H.; Merriam, C. Hart; Bailey, Vernon; Fisher, Walter K.; Merriam, L. L.; Sage, J. H.; Osgood, C. Sumner; Casey [the cook]
  
  
  • Photos as numbered and labeled on reverse. Some indicate photographer with initials.
  
  
  • 1. Sisson ant hills (WHO)
  • 2. From near Sisson looking east
  • 3. Wagon camp (RT)
  • 4. The saddle-tree (JHS)
  • 5. In which Squire Bill does his duty (JHS)
  • 6. Rear view of CHM and a glimpse of other members of party. (JHS)
  • 7. Walter Fisher at Wagon Camp
  • 8. 5 men to one horse Wagon Camp. Photo by Sage. Prof Bailey in his element.
  • 9. Bailey’s rough riders leaving Wagon Camp (JHS)
  • 10. From east of Wagon Camp near Panther Creek (RT)
  • 11. From Panther Cr. A short distance E. of Wagon Camp. Abies in foreground. (WHO) [top corner torn and missing]
  • 12. Going through pumice meadow between Wagon Camp & Bryanthus VB – WK – RT – Jack – Casey (WHO)
  • 13. Bryanthus Meadow. Bailey departing after our first arrival (RT)
  • 14. Bryanthus Meadow. Note exquisite drapery (WHO)
  • 15. P. albicaulis at Bryanthus camp. The only really decent picture in my lot. (WHO)
  • 16. Bryanthus Camp… (RT) [torn and portion missing]
  • 17. WKF & WHO peeling rats at Bryanthus Camp (JHS)
  • 18. Camp – Bryanthus meadow “Timberline S. Side” W.H.O. & W.K.F. (RT)
  • 19. Near Bryanthus Meadow. Butte to the N.W. of Camp (RT)
  • 20. … above Bryanthus Meadow Camp (RT)
  • 21. Shasta from head land above and East of Bryanthus Meadow (RT)
  • 22. Shasta from Bryanthus Meadow Camp… (RT) [fold marks, torn and missing pieces]
  • 23. W.K.F. [rest of inscription missing] (JHS) [top part torn and missing]
  • 24. Old glacier track near Red Butte (RT)
  • 26. Showing how P. albicaulis climbs ridges. (JHS)
  • 27. Tsuga mertensiana the sometime Tsuga pattoniana. Mountain hemlock indicative of Hudsonian zone. Near Squaw Creek.
  • 28. From Squaw Creek below the camp (JHS)
  • 29. Shasta from Squaw Creek below Camp (RT) [fold marks and torn along fold and on edge]
  • 30. Vernon Bailey, Jack & a spike buck
  • 31. WKF visiting trap in upper meadow Squaw Cr. Phenacomys?? (JHS)
  • 32. Clark’s Crow taken from life near Squaw Creek
  • 33. Clark’s Crow near Squaw Creek (true exposure) distance from bird 6 feet! (RT)
  • 34. From side of Mud Cr. Cañon near Bailey’s “nice easy grade” Abies shastensis (RT)
  • 35. Falls on Mud Creek near lower camp (FT)
  • 36. Mud Creek from below Clear Creek junction
  • 37. Rock opp. Camp at mouth of Clear Cr. Portion of VB’s ‘gentle slope' (WHO)
  • 38. Slide slope opposite camp in Mud Creek canyon
  • 39. Peak from mouth of Clear Creek (WHO)
  • 40. Our clumsy brute. Taken the day Dr. Merriam and P left Mud Cr Camp for Squaw Creek. Meministine? [do you remember?]
  • 41. Mud Creek Canon from above junction of Clear Creek (RT)
  • 42. Mud Creek Canon looking across from near our camp at Timerbline Mud Creek (RT)
  • 43. Stand from under Mud Cr canyon (WHO)
  • 44. Upper Mud Creek Cañon from souther (t’other) side. Timberline trees (RT)
  • 45. Lower Konwakiton Glacier for 11,000 ft. Source of Mud Creek. (RT)
  • 46. Konwakiton Glacier (RT)
  • 47. Upper Konwakiton Glacier from 11500 ft. July 31 (RT)
  • 48. N. W. fork of Konwakiton Glacier
  • 49. R.T. starting for Ash Creek (not Punch and Judy) (RT [?])
  • 50. Outfit on platform of Ash Creek cañon near edge of cañon. Taken by R.T.F.
  • 51. Ash Creek near flood line
  • 52. Ash Creek canon from our camp (RT)
  • 53. [missing]
  • 54. Ash Creek canon and falls from rim of canon (RT)
  • 55. Side of Shasta showing lapilli slope. Alt 11000. July 31 (RT)
  • 56. Oh say let’s take other swig at the canteen (WHO)
  • 57. Is your name written there well I wonder (WHO)
  • 58. Shastina from summit of Shasta
  • 59. Ye mighty hunter and famous trapper on the banks of Little Shasta Creek. Little Shasta Valley. (WHO) [torn along fold but intact]
  • 60. Camp on Lassen – in bed (WHO)
  • 61. Camp on Lassen. W.H.O. and Sumner flipping a flapjack
  • 62. Hay what! Lassen Peak (RT) [subject: W. H. Osgood; left side torn and missing]
  • 63. New Lassen Peak. Notice size of sugar pine. WKF and Prince [fold marks and tears, parts missing]
  • 64. WKF at Hat Creek camp on Lassen Ok (WHO) [left side torn and missing]
  
  
  
  
  • Folder #3 – 1899
  
  
  • (28) 3.5” x 4.5” b&w photos
  
  
  • “These are a scrappy series of photographs taken in Washington and California during the summer of 1899” [descriptions by R.T.F.]
  
  
  • 1. This is at Tacoma, the head of Commencement Bay, and the mill of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. as seen from the veranda of the Hotel Tacoma
  
  
  • 2. Another mill opposite Seattle, and said to be the largest in the world. This shows a good sample of Puget Sound shore. The place is Port Blakely.
  
  
  • 3. Near view of the same mill from the mill pond
  
  
  • 3a. Me, R.T.F., make a “stem analysis” at Orting
  
  
  • 4. Us on the way to Matlock, or rather from Matlock, by the empty log trucks. H. James in foreground.
  
  
  • 5. County road in fir woods close to our first Matlock camp on the Satsop river.
  
  
  • 6. Same camp. See what disgraceful style was lived in. Our French cook in the background, Bill James & Hodge to right & left.
  
  
  • 7. A big “burn” near Matlock; me making believe make notes.
  
  
  • 8. Us again, at the first Matlock camp
  
  
  • 9. Now we jump to Shelter and the beautiful inlet where we had so much bathing and boating. You can see it over my bald head, where I stand brushing my teeth.
  
  
  • 10. This is the first of series of Mt. Rainier pictures. Taken by the gang that Allen was with: Goat Mountain Lake.
  
  
  • 11. Face of the Nisqually Glacier and ice cover whence the river rushes out. You can see the stream to the right. Allen is the man on top of the berg.
  
  
  • 12. Tatoosh Mts. From the Nisqually Glacier.
  
  
  • 13. Mt. Rainier from the Nisqually Glacier. The top is still ten miles off.
  
  
  • 14. Tatoosh range with Paradise Valley in foreground
  
  
  • 15. This & the next fit together, 15 to the right. The view then includes a large slice of what you see looking S. from the side of Rainier.
  
  
  • 15a. In 15a you can just make out Mt. Adams, in 15 Mt. St. Helens.
  
  
  • 15c. Looking up the Mt. frm the Nisqually Glacier. The perspective is ten miles deep.
  
  
  • 15d. View from Cowlitz Glacier
  
  
  • 16. Looking S. from a little way up Rainer; various ranges of the Cascades.
  
  
  • 17. Rainier again. No good.
  
  
  • 18. Same peak distant 15 miles; as you often see at still greater distances, high in the heavens, and just emerging from mists. The water is Reflection Lake.
  
  
  • 19. California: Redwood forest on the Eel river at Scotia; trees 300 ft. high. Our camp was just to the right of the picture.
  
  
  • 20. Here it is, with Allen sitting in the door of my tent.
  
  
  • 21. This is a little trail running back through the woods to the slashing and the cook-house clearing, which you can see through the trees.
  
  
  • 22. Country road among the Redwoods across the river.
  
  
  • 23. This is Fort Bragg, Mendocino Co., steamer Noyo and Sequoia loading redwood. The trees and the cliffs and the cove give some notion of what the coast is like beyond the town.
  
  
  • 24. This the way the trees look close to: stunted pines. The cliff falls away to the sea a few hundred this way.
  
  
  • Folder #4 – 1900
  
  
  • (19) 3.5” x 4.5” b&w photos
  
  
  • Redwoods
  • Includes "Workers taking a break"
  
  
  • Folder #5
  
  
  • (29) 3.5” x 4.5” b&w photos
  
  
  • Numbers printed on front of photos:
  • 19254, 19256, 19258, 19264, 19279, 19280, 19281, 19283, 19284, 19285, 19286, 19292,
  • 19293, 19295, 19304, 19309, 19312, 19313, 19315, 19316, 19320, 19326, 19334, 19338, 19339, 19340, 19344, 19350, 19352
  
  
  • Folder #6 – 1900
  
  
  • (7) 6” x 8” b&w photos
  
  
  • 190005 Cutting Redwood.
  • 802 Lumbermen.
  • 801 Yarding Crew.
  • 596 Men in Tree.
  • 463 Redwoods.
  • 417 Lumbermen.
  • 406 Lumbermen.
  
  
  • Folder #7 – 1900
  
  
  • (11) 3.5” x 4.5” b&w photos, some with notations written by R.T.F. on back of photograph
  
  
  • Includes photographs of Trinidad Head; Columbia River near Seattle, WA; Looking up the Willamette (Portland, OR); Portland, OR reservoir
  
  
  • Includes Redwood Sprout
  
  
  
  
  • Folder #8 – 1901
  
  
  • Photos taken on Biological Survey with Gifford Pinchot (1901)
  • (7) 3.5” x 4.5” b&w photos and envelope, labeled on reverse by RTF:
  • “A large sugar pine – see how like our white pine it is. Taken looking north over the foothills along the east base of Shasta”
  • “Shows how they haul & load logs in Squaw Valley”
  • “More log hauling”
  • “Felled sugar pines along Ash Creek”
  • “Pitiful view of Shasta which should outtop everything being only 8 miles off.”
  • “Sugar pine cones. The largest are 16 in. long without the stems”
  • “Bedford Jones & his Pa – prize axemen”
  
  
  
  
  • (4) 3.5” x 4.5” b&w photos, mounted on green paperboards, which appear to be from this group, labeled 19267, 19268, 19276
  
  
  • 190002 “Dad on Badger”
  • 3 ½” x 4 3/6” b&w photo mounted on paperboard
  
  
  • R.T. Fisher on his horse, Badger out west.
  
  
  • 19266 R.T. Fisher writing letters/field notes in the forest out west, ca. 1900s
  • 3 3/8” X 4 ½” b&w photo mounted on paperboard
  
  
  • Folder #9
  
  
  • 2 images by H.A. Hale, copyright 1899, labeled by RTF as Mt. St Helens and Mt. Hood
  • image by Benj. A. Afford, copyright 1899, labeled by RTF as Mt. Hood
  
  
  • “R.T.F. and Frazier Curtis, “out west”
  
  
  • Lantern slide 5” x 7”
  • Tree growing out of large stump. Man in picture has a camera. Taken out west (ca. 1898-1901)
  
  
  • [Ethan is Edward T. Allen, Harry is Henry James 2nd, Bill is William Hodge]

• Archives Location: Map Room, stack 6, drawer 3
• Access: Active
• Administrative Notes:
  • Redwoods (190004): olvwork413663.
  • Cutting redwood (190005): olvwork413719.
  • Lumbermen (406): olvwork413720.
  • Lumbermen (417): olvwork413721.
  • Redwoods (463): olvwork413722.
  • Men in tree (596): olvwork413723.
  • Yarding crew (801): olvwork413724.
  • Lumbermen (802): olvwork413725.
  • Stagecoach (190003): olvwork413658.
  • RTF and Badger (190002): olvwork413654.
  • RTF writing (19266): olvwork413656.