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The Zybach Collection · Jedediah Smith

Photographs

Fifteen registered sets, 246 files — the four days of the 2023 Rendezvous, the two markers, the businesses that built the memorial, and two sets that are counted but not shown.

The creator’s own summary: “Photographs are organized by topic and date.” They are, in fifteen folders on his site, and this page is the register of all of them: every file, the day it went up, its size, and a link to his copy. The photographs themselves are large — several are over 20 MB — and most were taken by the people on the trip rather than by him, so the Library lists and links them rather than reproducing them. The few pictures shown anywhere in this series are his own work or long out of copyright, and each is credited where it appears.

File names carry what look like photographers’ surnames. Those are the creator’s file names, printed as he wrote them; the Library has not turned them into attributions.

2 of the fifteen sets are registered, dated and counted but not shown: one is a search for graves, the other is aerial photography of the ground on which they lie. Each keeps its entry and its count.

The 2023 Rendezvous, day by day

Day 1 — 2 April 2023, Crescent City to Bandon 41 files

The first day of the Rendezvous, from Crescent Beach and Jedediah Smith State Park north along the Oregon coast.

Every file in this folder (41)

The folder on the creator’s site

Day 2 — 3 April 2023, Bandon to Reedsport 31 files

Seven Devils, South Slough, Cape Arago, Sunset Bay, the Hollering Place, the Coos History Museum, and the afternoon at the mouth of the Umpqua.

Every file in this folder (31)

The folder on the creator’s site

Day 3 — 4 April 2023, Reedsport to Dallas 26 files

Elk viewing, Fort Umpqua, and the inland route north through Drain, Curtin, Lorane, Monroe and the Soap Creek ford.

Every file in this folder (26)

The folder on the creator’s site

Day 4 — 5 April 2023, Dallas to Fort Vancouver 35 files

Champoeg, Willamette Falls and Fort Vancouver, ending at the Columbia.

Every file in this folder (35)

The folder on the creator’s site

Rendezvous — general 2 files

Two photographs filed above the four days.

Every file in this folder (2)

The folder on the creator’s site

Markers, aerials and the canine search

Bolon Island 12 files

The original stone marker and the state highway panel that replaced it, photographed in June and July 2023 — the subject of the committee’s request to the Oregon Travel Information Council.

Every file in this folder (12)

The folder on the creator’s site

Aerial photographs of the Smith River mouth, 1939–2002 12 files

Twelve items: eight aerial frames and four scanned index sheets, dated 1939, 1945, 1954, 1968, 1976, 1986, 1994 and 2002. Aerial photography of this ground is how the site was located; the register keeps the entry, the images are not shown here.

Withheld from this edition pending review. The item keeps its place in the register and its permanent link.

On the canine search: the creator’s index records it as the work of “Max, the Cadaver Dog,” handled by Cathy Schneider of Northwest Canine Resources, and dates it 2 May 2023. Her report and her field map are catalogued on the writings page and the maps page. The Library publishes the fact of the search, its date, its author and the number of photographs, and nothing about where it took place or what it found.

The businesses that built the memorial

Seven folders, one for each firm that gave time, machinery or materials. The creator names them on his sponsors page and photographed their people at work; the third photographic report follows the plaque from the foundry floor to the stone.

Bronzecraft Memorials, Wamic 10 files

Casting the bronze plaque.

Every file in this folder (10)

The folder on the creator’s site

Coos Bay Timber Operators 27 files

Hauling the stone.

Every file in this folder (27)

The folder on the creator’s site

Ellyn Amalia Designs, Creswell 2 files

The interpretive sign artwork.

Every file in this folder (2)

The folder on the creator’s site

Main Rock Products, North Bend 17 files

The quarry, and the stone being chosen and loaded.

Every file in this folder (17)

The folder on the creator’s site

Mast Brothers, Reedsport 6 files

Setting the stone.

Every file in this folder (6)

The folder on the creator’s site

Pacific Memorials, Wilbur 7 files

Advice on the stone and the plaque.

Every file in this folder (7)

The folder on the creator’s site

Richardson Masonry, Reedsport 12 files

Cutting the stone to take the plaque.

Every file in this folder (12)

The folder on the creator’s site

Provenance

Creator
Bob Zybach, and the participants in the 2023 Rendezvous, as his file names record them
Published at
orww.org/1828_Umpqua_Memorial/Photos/
Counted
246 files across 15 folders, as the creator's own directory listings give them on 4 September 2026
Rights
Photographs by other hands are identified by reference and not reproduced. Photographs shown elsewhere in this series are the creator’s own or long out of copyright.
Held
The canine-search set and the aerial photographs of the same ground: registered, dated and counted, not shown

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