Soap Creek Valley · Person
Ernest Cook
Ernest Cook— photographer, mentioned in the Soap Creek Valley oral history series.
photographermentioned
Provenance
- Where this comes from
- #12 Wanda Marcks Cook, i, contributors / front matter credit; #14 Charles and Norman Hindes, p. 10, contributors / front matter credit; #12 Wanda Marcks Cook, title page, photograph credit; #12 Wanda Marcks Cook, x, photograph credit; #12 Wanda Marcks Cook, p. 58, photograph credit; #12 Wanda Marcks Cook, p. 59, photograph credit; #12 Wanda Marcks Cook, p. 60, photograph credit; #12 Wanda Marcks Cook, p. 73, photograph credit; #12 Wanda Marcks Cook, p. 74, photograph credit; #12 Wanda Marcks Cook, p. 78, photograph credit; #12 Wanda Marcks Cook, p. 84, photograph credit; #7 Charlie Olson, p. 24, p. 39, p. 144, p. 145, p. 71, p. 74, printed back index; #12 Wanda Marcks Cook, p. 56, 58-60, p. 63, 68-70, 72-74, 76-78, p. 84, p. 17, p. 40, p. 62, printed back index; #14 Charles and Norman Hindes, p. 10, printed back index
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Worked on
Where others mention them
Dates they give
- 1899 — Tyrone married the only child of Elizabeth Murphy and Judge Sylvester Schultz, but she died in 1899, leaving him with a son, Ernest, and a daughter, Mary.
- 1900 — Roy Cook believes that this barn was probably located in Soap Creek Valley before the turn of the century.
- 1905/1915 — It shows Benton Hall from the northeast, sometime between 1905 and 1915.
- 1910 — 24. John W. Cook Portland home, c. 1910. The Cook house is second from the left. Note the pre-Worid War I Halsey Street trolley tracks in this photo. Photograph by Ernest Cook.
- 1912 — The following interview was recorded on October 28, 1989 at Wanda Cook's apartment in Portland, Oregon. At that time I wrote: "She is an attractive, articulate, and intelligent woman with an inquisitive mind and an ever-present sense of humor. Due to the nature of this project, the interview was principally concerned with her childhood and young adult years in the
- 1914/1989 — Soap Creek Valley: 1914 and 1989 views east from Lewisburg Saddle. These photographs were taken 75 years apart; about the time of Roy Cook's birth, and then again shortly before the May, 1990 tour detailed on the following pages. Note the Cook house in both photos- Coffin Butte appears in the center background on the second photo. These photos first
- 1914 — They got married in 1914, I think.
- 1914 — These views of the new family home for the Cook's were probably taken by Ernest Cook around 1914.
- 1914 — Photo of Vincent Home, taken c. 1914 by Ernest Cook.
- 1915 — This may be the crop discussed by Ernest Cook in his 1915 postcard to his sister.
- 1916 — So your dad had just finished up college then.
- 1920-10 — Mrs. Marcks and Mrs Tiffany, October 1920. Wanda Cook often brought her two sons back to Soap Creek Valley to visit their grandmother in the 1920s and 1930s. Wanda's ghost story (pp:29-30) features these two women. Photograph by Ernest Cook.
- 1922/1923 — He worked for Pacific Power and Light, only it was Northwestern Electric initially in 1922, or 1923 I think it was started up.
- 1922 — The young couple moved to the groom's home on a horse and cattle ranch near Sulphur Springs, at the southwestern end of the valley, where they lived until 1922.
- 1925 — 25-26. Wanda Cook Portland home, c. 1925. Photographs by Ernest Cook. Wanda raised her two sons in this Portland home, as a single mother during the Depression. The house is located on 43rd and Knight Streets and is believed to be still in ise.
- 1927 — They split up about 1927.
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- The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: Ernest Cook (person record).
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