Two Children Standing on a Table

Identifier

PUA_MS154_030

Title

Two Children Standing on a Table

Description

Two children stand on a sheepskin that has been laid on top of a small table. Both are dressed in fine clothes, with the girl aged around 3 wearing a lacy dress, a bow in her hair and fancy shoes, and the boy wearing a sailor-style outfit. The table sits outdoors on the grass by some stairs, with a dense vine or bush behind them. Flaws in the photograph are due to 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.

Creator

Clapshaw, William Alonso, 1880-2008

Date: Year(s)

1910/1914

Date: Display

circa 1910-1914

Subject

Portraits

Place

Forest Grove, Oregon

Gales Creek, Oregon

Medium

Gelatin silver negatives

Source

Pacific University Archives

Copyright

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