A head and shoulders portrait of Roscoe Dixon. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads, "Roscoe Dixon, About 1880, Operated Roscoe's Oyster House in Astoria, Ore."
Transcription from front: “Mrs. John R. Thompson, boarding house, 1864.” Transcription from back: “ Mrs. J. R. Thompson, manager Thompson’s Boarding House, 185 Front Corner Madison.”
Transcription from back: “Mrs. Lucy (Carter) Tanner, 1852. Pioneer of 1852 from vis . Wife of Elisha Swift Tanner, also a pioneer of 1852. Went to Eastern Washington with her husband many years ago where she spent the rest of her life.”
Transcription from back: “Elisha Swift Tanner, 1852. Pioneer of 1852 from __ via ___. Married Miss Lucy Carter, also a pioneer of 1852. Went to Eastern Washington many years ago where he spent the rest of his life.”
Transcription from back: “Mrs. Clara Vinson Swafford, 1852. Oct. 10, 1920. As a young woman she lived in the family of Arthur Warner, near Oregon City - He was a pioneer of 1853 - for a number of years.”
Transcription from back: “Julius Augustus Stratton, Lawyer. Oregon pioneer of 1853. Brother of Rev. C. C. Stratton, Methodist Minister and Riley E. Stratton, Lawyer and Judge (circuit). Grad Willamette University.”
Transcription from back: “James B. Stephens, pioneer of 1844. Rec’d Sept. 21, 1928, from Mrs. Sarah D. Eastman Hollister [undecipherable], a neighbor of Mr. Stephens in 1869-79.”
Back of a cartes-de-visite portrait of an unidentified man showing the studio stamp for Joseph Buchtel. Transcription from back: “Almost certainly, man at left in group of four ‘Buchtel and Stolle stand-size Album portr.”