Photography Collections That Bring History to Life — Lorenzo Lorain and Images of the Oregon Coast, 1857–1861
Photography Collections That Bring History to Life — Lorenzo Lorain and Images of the Oregon Coast, 1857–1861
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Lieutenant Lorenzo Lorain is remembered in part by some historians as the first officer from Oregon to be wounded in the Civil War. But we’ll be learning about another, unique first. Lorain undertook to photograph Native peoples who lived along the Oregon coast. The images he made between 1857 and […]