Historic Hood River
Found One! And Another!
Notes
Just a few weeks ago I was asking why The Hood River Glacier collection had so many photographs when they didn’t publish very many. My guess was Joe D. Thomison was sending them to The Sunday Oregonian for publication, though most were never published. I finally found one which made it into The Sunday Oregonian. On November 21, 1915 they published this image of retired Glacier editor Samuel F. Blythe in front of his old office, along with a complete biography. There’s plenty of information about this image in the 2013 post which featured it, but there’s one more important detail. See the faint yellow corner markers drawn on the print? Those match the cropping of the image for publication in The Sunday Oregonian. Unfortunately this print is glued to a matte so I can’t verify it bears the same “return to Joe D. Thomison” note on the reverse, but I bet it does.
Flushed with success it occurred to me when I was looking for the Edgar Franz image in The Sunday Oregonian I never did a search by name. Sure enough, Edgar Franz was hiding in plain sight in the Society Pages. The tight crop threw me off when I was scanning the pages of the paper.
So we now have pretty good evidence Joe D. Thomison had an arrangement with The Sunday Oregonian to occasionally publish Hood River images.
Tags: 1900s, Blythe, carriage, Hood River Glacier, newspaper, Oak Street, Sunday Oregonian, Thomison
Jeffrey Bryant
FYI – Joe D. Thomison is first listed as Editor of the Hood River Glacier in the October 6, 1921 edition of the newspaper.
Jeffrey Bryant
Unfortunately, the Historic Oregon Newspapers site currently only has the Sunday Oregonian available through 1922. I searched the Sunday Oregonian for “Hood River” and found a number of articles but not many photos. I don’t think Joe D. Thomison would have been providing the photos back in 1915, since he was not editor of the Hood River Glacier until 1921.
Arthur Babitz
Good points Jeffrey. The arrangement with the Sunday Oregonian probably predated Joe Thomison’s stint as editor.
The fact the digital access to the Sunday Oregonian ends in 1922 is likely due to the Sonny Bono copyright act, which I talked about here: https://www.hoodriverhistorymuseum.org/copyrights/