| Names: | Other: Lee Moorhouse
Other: Major Lee Moorhouse
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| | Dates: | 1850 - 1926 | | Born: | US, IA, Marion County | | Active: | US |
Major Lee Moorhouse was an Indian agent in the Columbia River Plateau, in the interior Pacific Northwest during the late nineteenth century and he took over 9,000 gelatin dry glass plate negatives. Of these approximately a third were of Native Americans including the Umatilla, Walla Walla, and Cayuse.
The primary collections for the glass plates are:
University of Oregon Library (7000)
Umatilla County Library (1400)
U.S. Bureau of American Ethnography (300)Preparing biographies
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Thomas Leander Moorhouse
Steven L. Grafe, “Lee Moorhouse: Photographer of the Inland Empire,” Oregon Historical Quarterly 98, 4 (Winter 1997-98), 426–477.
Steven L. Grafe, Fleming, Paula Richardson (Foreword) 2006 "Peoples of the Plateau: The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse, 1898-1915" University of Oklahoma Press
Martin Schmitt, “The Moorhouse Photographic Collection,” The Call Number 15, 1 (December 1953), 7–9.
Martha A. Sandweiss, “Picturing Indians: Curtis in Context,” in The Plains Indian Photographs of Edward S. Curtis (Lincoln 2001), 13 – 39.
Deward E. Walker, “The Moorhouse Collection: A Window on Umatilla History,” in The First Oregonians, ed. by Carolyn M. Buan and Richard Lewis (Portland 1991), 109-114.
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