Native Americans
MOORHOUSE, Lee (1850-1926), photographer. Standing profile studio portrait of a Native American male subject. Pendleton, OR: n.d.

9 15/16 x 7 7/8 in. silver gelatin photograph. Image blindstamped, "Lee Moorhouse / Pendleton, OR" to lower right. Verso bears pencil inscription reading, "Tats - Homi / good man."

"Major" Lee Moorhouse traveled the Oregon Trail from Iowa as a child and worked several jobs typical of a Western settler, including miner, surveyor, rancher, and Indian Agent for the Umatilla Indian Reservation. His photographs were purely amateur, but the 9,000 negatives he produced comprise one of the finest collections of Oregon photography, documenting the state's transition from frontier outpost to a land of cities and reservations.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.