Robert Cascade Hutchinson, born during the Butler Train journey to Oregon, about 1876 (photograph copied 1942)

Item Overview

Title

Robert Cascade Hutchinson, born during the Butler Train journey to Oregon, about 1876 (photograph copied 1942)

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

[copy, 1942]

Date

1942

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Bust-length portrait photograph of Robert Cascade Hutchinson, who was born while his parents were crossing the Cascade Mountains with the Butler Train.
George Miller West travelled with the Butler (wagon) Train, (organized by the Butler family, members of the Disciples of Christ Church) from Monmouth, Illinois to Polk County, Oregon in 1853. West made the journey to mine in Oregon and California. He wrote a memoir relating incidents of crossing the plains to Oregon and his experiences in the goldfields of southern Oregon and northern California. The memoir was prepared in the form of a 49-page typescript by his son, H. H. West, who distributed the memoir to several libraries and archives, along with copied photographs of members of the Butler Train and one or two mining associates. The photographs were collected by H. H. West from about 1935 to 1942.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 221. Butler Train 1853. Robert Cascade Hutchinson, 23 years of age. Original in possession of Elizabeth Van Winkle, daughter of Otis Hutchinson, Monmouth, Oregon, in 1942. Mrs. Van Winkle lives at Box 8, Jefferson, Oregon. 1937.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
Portrait photographs
black-and-white photographs
copy prints

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Pioneers--Oregon