Historic Hood River
Lenora?
2-20-2025
Notes
Our GAR post last week caused me to dive back into the John W. Hinrichs album. The album includes several cabinet cards of this very glamorous woman, who I believe may be John and Eliza’s daughter Lenora. Hopefully we can pin down this ID, as the album is largely devoid of labels.
Here is the Delia Coon biography of J. W. Hinrichs. I believe this is John W. Hinrichs as a young man, and here he is as Vice President of the First National Bank (seated in the middle, with son Copley standing to the left).
Lenora Hinrichs was responsible for this fun holiday post on HHR, as she repurposed J. W.’s school district ledger book for a recipe book in the 1920s.
Thorn
So who or what is Eastman? Based on those addresses this must be 1891 or earlier, prior to naming the alphabet district and East Portland merging with Portland.
ArthurB
Cabinet cards almost always prominently advertise the studio. Experts can tell the period based on the style of the card, typography, etc. Good sleuthing on the address/ date.
Alan B Winston
George Eastman did business as the Eastman Dry Plate Company before changing the name to Eastman Kodak and eventually world famous as Kodak. It is not clear from my very cursory poking around whether local studios licensed the name or were part of the corporate effort, or gratuitously took advantage. The dates fit, however the connection.
kmb
Lenora Hinrichs was my great-grandmother, and this picture does not look like her, and I have never seen this picture before. I can positively identify Lenora Hinrichs as the woman third from left in the Pope cabinet card that was posted on 6-25-2015, that would have also been taken around 1891. When I was at the museum a few years ago, the John W. Hinrichs album was in a display cabinet and I wanted to look through it, but unfortunately on that day nobody had the key to the cabinet so I was unable to have a look. Maybe next time.