Digital Exhibits

Baseball Game near Forest Grove

A baseball player rounds the bases at a baseball game near Forest Grove, Oregon circa 1910-1914, possibly in the Hillside neighborhood northwest of town. A player appears to be heading towards home base while the catcher walks forward. Men and boys sit on the sidelines watching the game. A partially logged hill stands in the background. The photographer, William Alonso Clapshaw, exposed half of a glass plate negative to create this image. The other half of the glass plate was used to make another photograph of the same game; see image PUA_MS154_008a. Based on other images by Clapshaw, the runner in this image likely belonged to a team with initials "HT" (or "TH" if the image is reversed). Flaws in the photograph are due to dust and deterioration of the emulsion layer on the negative.

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, 1880-1996

circa 1910-1914

PUA_MS154_019

Baseball

Sports

Forest Grove, Oregon

Gales Creek, Oregon

Gelatin silver negatives

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