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