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Canoes on the Allegheny River

ca. 1890-1910

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Canoes on the Allegheny River
  • Title
  • Canoes on the Allegheny River
  • Creator
  • Dr. W.H. Cooper Family
  • Date
  • ca. 1890-1910
  • Identifier
  • 20100204-ocl-0351
  • Source Identifier
  • Cooper 2
  • Description
  • This beautiful photograph shows canoes on the Allegheny River in Oakmont. The American flag flying from the canoe on the far left indicates this photograph might have been taken on the Fourth of July. The crispness of the waves is exceptional in this image. While it is unknown what camera Dr. Cooper used to record these images, there can be no doubt that it was a quality instrument. Dr. William Henry Cooper and his wife, Harriet Lillian Bettes Cooper, lived in four different houses in Oakmont from at least 1897 to Dr. Cooper's death in 1925. They had met when Dr. Cooper was a doctor and professor at the Homeopathic Hospital of Pittsburgh, now Shadyside Hospital. Harriet had been a student nurse there, and was valedictorian of her class. They had four children: Catharine (born 1897), Charles (1899), Franklin (1905), and Caroline (1912). Charles Cooper's daughter, Caroline Carroll, presented the Oakmont Carnegie Library with 80 glass plate negatives taken by Dr. Cooper from approximately 1890-1910 in the winter of 2009.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Oakmont (Allegheny County, Pa.)
    Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.)
    Oakmont Yacht Club (Oakmont, Pa.)
    Recreational boating--Pennsylvania--Oakmont
  • Source
  • Oakmont Carnegie Library Archives, Cooper Collection
  • Contributor
  • Oakmont Carnegie Library
  • Collection
  • Oakmont Historical Image Collection
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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