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Outdoor photography

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Field photography

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Peter Britt photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-003
Abstract The collection contains approximately 2,067 prints. Nearly half the portraits are unidentified. Most of the prints are portraits taken by Peter Britt. Emil Britt began making photos professionally in 1883 after training for a year in San Francisco. Peter Britt took photographs outside the studio infrequently. However, Emil carried the camera out on many picnic excursions in the earlier part of the twentieth century. The earliest prints come from the 1860s, with the most recent taken in...
Dates: 1850-1950

Outdoor photographs, bulk: 1874-1939

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS003:02
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Most of the prints are portraits taken by Peter Britt. After 1883, Emil Britt was also in the studio. Nearly half the portraits are unidentified. Peter Britt did take photographs outside the studio infrequently. His most well-known effort occurred in 1874 at Crater Lake. He created what is probably the only wet-process photo of Crater Lake. William Gladstone Steel used the photograph in his successful effort to have Crater Lake designated a National Park. This collection includes the...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1874-1939