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Birds-Eye view of Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. . . “Assembly Club†Shirt Waist Dancing Party at Oregon Building the largest dancing space on the grounds every Tuesday. Grand March at 8:45 P.M. . . .

1905 · 62003 — Portland OR: Albert Hess & Co. Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition 1905. One souvenir postcard. 11.25 x 3.25 in. With birds-eye view by Caughey on recto advertisement for Willson in lower right corner center crease fold as issued; postcard information and cancelled stamp & postmark for Portland addressed to W.H. Bilyen 90 1/2 - 5th St. City Portland Oregon minor dustsoiling slight toning very minor wear at fold crease still VG copy. First edition of this uncommon folding souvenir postcard celebrating the Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition featuring and reproducing the famed Caughey birds-eye. The birds-eye depicts the Guild’s Lake area of the grounds up and operating now bounded by Reed to Thurston Streets and 31st to 24th Streets in NW Portland. Prof. Willson fl. 1904-1920 began as a dance instructor with the Academy of Dancing located in the Hirsch Building but within a few years of the Exposition set up his own dance studio and was noted instructor of Waltzes. This card advertises the fact that couples could dance for .50¢ while an “Extra Lady†for .25¢ and even better for men in the very hot and humid Portland Pavilion they could dance without their coats in Shirt Waists. Caughey 1851-1925 was an Ohio Civil War veteran an itinerant chalk plate artist and had just created the year before in Feb. 1904 a Birds-Eye view reproduced over two pages in the Lewis and Clark Journal with noted birds-eye artist and cartographer Fred Routledge 1871-1936. Caughey began producing birds eye views in and around Portsmouth NH in the 1880’s and eventually became a commercial artist and newspaper editor in Portland Oregon where he would often produce images for the Mutual Label & Lithographic Co. No copies in Worldcat. See: Birds-Eye View of Lewis and Clark Fair - Routledge-Caughey Lewis and Clark Journal Vol. 1 No. 2 Feb. 1904 pp. 16-17; Richard Candee Tracking the Little Known J.H. Rollin Caughey: Illustrator of New Hampshire’s Victorian Industries 2020; Craig Clinton The Pictorial Maps of Fred A. Routledge Oregon Historical Quarterly Vol. 117 No. 1 2016 pp. 38-75. [Albert Hess & Co., Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition], unknown