Clavering, Robert K. (Oregon City, Portland)

Robert K. Clavering (Oregon City, Portland)

Motor Gallery

New York Gallery

Chronology

1892-1893 Oregon City

1894-1895 Portland

1896-1897 Oregon City

By 1901, The New York Gallery in Oregon City was owned by Turney (q. v.)

Directory Listings

1893 PCD pg. 1061 Photographers “Clavering, R. K., Or City”

1894 PCD pg. 256 “Clavering, Robert K, photographer, 410 E Morrison, res same”

1895 PCD pg. 228 “Clavering, Robert K, photographer, 410 E Morrison, res same”

1896 PCD pg. 688 Oregon City “Clavering, Robert K, photographer, Water N e cor 5th, rms same”

1897 PCD pg. 674 Oregon City “Clavering, Robert K, photographer, Water N e cor 5th, rms same”

Mautz Oregon “Clavering, 1895, Oregon City”, “Motor Gallery, 1890, Portland”

Photographer’s Imprints

“Clavering, N. Y. Gallery, Oregon City, Ore.” printed front, small card portrait.

“New York Gallery, Oregon City, Oregon” printed front cabinet card tr

News Items and Advertisements

1892: “New York Gallery. Photographs Delivered Promptly in the Finest Style of the Art. Fine Crayon Work A Specialty. Old Pictures Copied to any size. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Gallery Near Post Office, Oregon City, Or.” Oregon City Enterprise, 8 July 1892.

“J. W. Boatman has purchased the New York photograph gallery together with five or six thousand negatives, and is prepared to duplicate any picture ever made by Clavering. Water and 5 sts.” Oregon City courier-herald, May 26, 1899, pg. 3, col. 3.

Bibliography

Brown, Robert O., Nineteenth Century Portland, Oregon Photographers: A Collector’s Handbook (author; Portland, 1991) pg. 56, 73