Born: 1850 - US, IA, Marion County Died: 1926 Gender: Male 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)
Thomas Leander Moorhouse
Portraits
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