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Major Lee Moorhouse (Pendleton, Oregon, 1850-1926)

Untitled (Crying Babies in Cradle Boards)

Platinum Print, 4-3/4 x 6.5 inches, 1898

Moorhouse, an amateur photographer, worked at various times as a surveyor, wheat rancher, Umatilla Indian Agent, insurance salesman and Assistant Adjutant General of the Oregon State Militia. He was a noted producer of photographic post cards.

This photograph was included in the exhibition “Images of Identity: American Indians in Photographs” at the Detroit Institute of Arts (1994)

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