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Gary went on a search a few days
ago and resulted in this fine collection of photos from
Marvin Houseworth, who we thank very much for allowing us to
display them on our pages. The message below will
explain part of his interest in Baker City photos.
I collect stereoviews
and the core of my collection is western views published by
Thomas Houseworth of San Francisco; I have learned that he
had a business relationship with Martin M. Hazeltine who
photographed in Yosemite and along the California coast for
several years.
So many of the
stereoviews on Houseworth mounts are from negatives
Hazeltine sold to Houseworth. My wife is Ann Haseltine
Houseworth, a first cousin, 4 times removed of M. M
Hazeltine - so that connection got me into the Hazeltine
genealogy. Which brings me to Oregon;
M. M. Hazeltine moved his
family to Baker City probably in the 1880s. His (sometime)
photographer brother, G I. Hazeltine, had already been in
Canyon City for several years. M. M.'s daughter Viola also
became a studio photographer (portraits) and married R. T.
Parker in Baker City and they ran a studio together. M.
M.'s son, Leland also became a photographer and set up in
Butte City, Idaho.
If you have not found it
already, there is a great trove of Hazeltines photos - all
stereoviews if I remember - on line at the Online Archive of
California. Link is:
www.oac.cdlib.org Select the Finding Aids
tab and enter Hazeltine at Keyword - the
first entry on the list will be "Oregon, California, Idaho,
etc - click that link and under Contents
select Container Listing. That will give
you a list of each view, with California up front. You will
have to scroll down to about #13883 to get to the Oregon
stuff.
More later,
Regards,
Marvin
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