Dr. J. M. Short and Companions in Carriage
1912
Photograph of two men, one of whom is Dr. J.M. Short, and two women in a 4-person horse-drawn carriage. The carriage is on an un-paved street in front of a 3-story post-Victorian house with palm trees and yuccas in the yard. The original photograph is mounted on cardboard with a large inkblot on the bottom left corner. The back of the board has a short news article taped to it describing Dr. Short and his significance to Gresham.
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- Description
- Photograph of two men, one of whom is Dr. J.M. Short, and two women in a 4-person horse-drawn carriage. The carriage is on an un-paved street in front of a 3-story post-Victorian house with palm trees and yuccas in the yard. The original photograph is mounted on cardboard with a large inkblot on the bottom left corner. The back of the board has a short news article taped to it describing Dr. Short and his significance to Gresham.
- Provenance
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Donated by Mrs. Ivan (Lenora Mae) Handy, the granddaughter of Mrs. E.G. Wilkes.
Prior to relocating to Portland in 1912, Short was one of the first doctors in Gresham and the first person in the city to have a telephone. He served as the mayor of Gresham from 1907 to 1908. - Date
- 1912
- Subject
- Carriages & coaches
- Horses
- Houses
- People
- Women
- Men
- Doctors
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Identifier
- ghs19990260001
- Contributor
- Gresham Historical Society
- Extent
- Print, Photographic
- Type
- StillImage
- Item sets
- Gresham Heritage
