18 May 2012

I finished scanning the 1990 Wallulah earlier today! So now I get to
work on the 1905 Wallulah, which has a really beautiful cover and some
very unfortunate caricatures of Native American and Black characters
on the first few pages. But beyond that, it looks like a really
beautiful book!

I also continued work on the Paulus slides. I continued compiling two
lists of photos, one for photos that include children and the other
for photos concerning the canneries. However, I'll be working on both
lists for a bit longer because I keep finding more and more photos to
add to the lists!

As I've looked at more of the Paulus collection, I realized that I am
now looking exclusively at portraits. All of the subjects have posed,
and many of them are in the same room. For those photographs in the
room with the flowers on a pillar next to the window, I've begun
adding an asterisk at the end of the photo title for easier
identification. However, I have reason to believe that whether or not
the flowers and pillar are in the photo, almost all of the photos that
I have seen in the past day and a half were taken inside Paulus' home
or studio. Intriguingly, many of the photos were taken in 1915, which
leads me to suggest that his vocation in portraiture may have helped
him pay for his Willamette education.