Digital Exhibits

House with Man on Porch

A house in the countryside near Forest Grove, Oregon, circa 1910-1914. The home may be in the Hillside, Gales Creek or Banks areas. A man stands on the porch facing the camera. The home is one-and-a-half stories high with a porch that wraps around one corner, and a shed connected by a covered walkway to its rear. A wood plank walkway lined with flowers (possibly foxgloves and dahlias) connects the home to the street. The photographer was standing just outside the open gate leading from the house to the street.

This is one image from a set of glass plate negatives created by William Alonso Clapshaw. Clapshaw was a clerk and shopkeeper who lived near Forest Grove, Oregon for most of his life. He was born in 1880, probably at the family's home in the Hillside neighborhood of Forest Grove, on what is now Clapshaw Hill Road east of Gales Creek. Around 1910-1914, William took an interest in photography and created a set of glass plate negatives documenting scenes near his family's lands as well as images of himself, his friends and family members. He most likely used a silver gelatin dry plate process. The photographs were donated to the Pacific University Archives in 2023.

Clapshaw, William Alonso, 1880-2017

circa 1910-1914

PUA_MS154_038

Houses

Forest Grove, Oregon

Gales Creek, Oregon

Gelatin silver negatives

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