America’s School Trust Library The Zybach Collection

Letitia Carson · Register

Photographs and illustrations

The creator's own photographs of the ground, 1990 to 2024, and the historical illustrations he keeps with them.

235 files in 23 folders on the creator’s site. Captions are his filenames; the Library has invented none. Two rules govern the rest. Where one of his filenames names a living person, the Library repeats his filename and says nothing further about that person, and shows no picture. Where a whole folder is given over to photographs of a living person or family, the Library records the folder, counts it and points at his copy, without listing the files — the photographs are his, and the people in them are not this Library’s to publish.

A weathered upright headstone standing in rough grass, with trees behind.
A headstone in the Stephens graveyard, South Myrtle Creek, photographed about 1990. Letitia Carson was buried here in February 1888 and her son in 1922; the creator applied in 2014 to have the burying ground restored. Photograph by Bob Zybach, from his own pages at orww.org.

The folders

Benton County 1 file

The valley the Carsons claimed in 1845, photographed by the creator in 1993 while he was recording the Soap Creek oral histories.

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Douglas County — loose plates 3 files

Three plates the creator sets on his own index page: Jack Carson in 1912, his mother’s headstone, and a 2013 view.

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Cow Creek, 7 September 2013 8 files

Upper Cow Creek, where Letitia Carson lived from about 1853: the Elliff cabin, a gravestone, and the party who made the visit.

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Cow Creek — loose plate 1 file

One further plate the creator files at the head of the Cow Creek folder.

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Stephens graveyard, about 1990 8 files

The creator’s earliest photographs of the burying ground on the Benjamin Stephens donation land claim, where Letitia Carson was buried in 1888 and her son in 1922.

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Stephens graveyard, 7 September 2013 25 files

The visit that led to the restoration application: headstones, fencing, and the people who came.

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Stephens graveyard, 5 December 2014 5 files

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Stephens graveyard, 25 June 2018 2 files

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Carson homestead — loose plate 1 file

The homesite as it stood about 1990.

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Carson homestead, 5 December 2014 2 files

Letitia Creek and the Continental Mine workings on the homestead ground.

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Carson homestead, 8 June 2024 34 files

The fullest run the creator has published of the homestead ground: the creek, the bridge, the big ash, the old growth, the swimming hole, the spring pond, the apple trees against the blackberries, and the viewpoints north and west.

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Carson homestead, 26 June 2024 1 file

A second 2024 visit. The creator files the photographs in folders named for the people who took them.

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Jack’s house, 5 December 2014 5 files

The house associated with Letitia Carson’s son. The creator files the same visit twice, here and under South Umpqua.

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Jack’s house, South Umpqua, 5 December 2014 11 files

The larger of the creator’s two files of the same visit, including his photograph of Jack Carson’s gravestone.

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Umatilla County — loose plate 1 file

A 1938 photograph of Letitia Carson’s granddaughter Mary Alice and her husband Joseph Lavadour. Both were born long before 1926, but who made the photograph is not established and their descendants are living, so the Library names it and links the creator’s copy without showing it.

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Pendleton, 29 October 2014 5 files

At the Pendleton Center for the Arts, with the portrait of Martha Carson.

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Folders recorded but not listed

These are photographs of living people, taken at project visits and gatherings and published by the creator on his own site. The Library records that they exist, how many there are, and where they are, and stops there.

Illustrations

The creator’s illustration folder holds historical views and portraits he uses on his pages: Belfast, the Nodaway ferry, the Oregon Trail, a plate from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a portrait of Greenberry Smith, the Red Hand of Ulster, and a set of 18 lithographs after Henry James Warre’s 1845 journey. The Library links them and does not reproduce them: for most of these the maker and the date of the image itself are not established by anything on his site or in this corpus, and the Library will not display a picture it cannot describe honestly.

The Warre set is at Illustrations/: Warre_18450824_The_Dalles.jpg, Warre_18450825_Salmon_Fishing.jpg, Warre_18450826_Columbia_River.jpg, Warre_18450827_Fort_Vancouver.jpg, Warre_18450902_Oregon_City-x.jpg, Warre_18450902_Oregon_City.jpg, Warre_18450903_Oregon_City.jpg, Warre_18450904_American_Institute.jpg, Warre_18450905_Willamette_Valley.jpg, Warre_18450906_Mount_Washington.jpg, Warre_18450913_Mount_Coffin.jpg, Warre_18450924_HMS_America.jpg, Warre_18451000_Nisqually_Gamblers.jpg, Warre_18451006_Fort_Victoria-a.jpg, Warre_18451006_Fort_Victoria-b.jpg, Warre_18451006_Fort_Victoria-c.jpg, Warre_18451008_Fort_Victoria-text.jpg, Warre_18460000_Oregon_City.jpg.

The print on his front page

Alison Saar, Washtub Blues, 2000. Colour woodcut, 30 × 22 in. Copyright Alison Saar, courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice, California.

The print the creator sets at the head of his own site. It is a living artist’s work, shown there by permission of her gallery; the Library links it and does not reproduce it. His copy.

Provenance

Photographer
Bob Zybach, except where his filename names another
Published at
orww.org/History/Letitia_Carson/Photographs/
Rights
In copyright, the creator’s own. He publishes them himself; the Library shows display copies of the few he made thumbnails for and links the rest.
Not listed
7 folders whose subject is a living person or family
Described
By the Library, 4 September 2026

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