South Umpqua Headwaters Precontact Reference Conditions Study

Osborne Photo Index

View west from Abbott Butte, Douglas County, Oregon (Sarlin & Birchill, July 24, 1933).

The "Osbornes Project" was started in 2005 as a collaboration by (at that time) Oregon State University College of Forestry undergraduate student, Judd Lehman, and ORWW Program Manager, Bob Zybach. The basic idea was to revisit each of the fire lookout towers in Oregon from which an Osborne panoramic photo sequence had been taken in the 1930s (Arnst 1985), and then take additional panoramic photos in order to begin building a detailed Repeat Photography inventory (Zybach and Lapham 2004). The resulting spatial and temporal sequences would then be permanently displayed on an ORWW website in order for others to reference.

This project has been built from earlier efforts along these same lines, including Peterson 1994; IamWho 2001; and Zybach 2008.

This selection of Osborne panoramic photos was assembled for the South Umpqua Headwaters Precontact Reference Conditions Study in 2010.

NOTE (December 15, 2010): There has been some difficulty with QTVR panoramic files made for this project, in that some browsers or platforms are importing grainy, undersized files that cannot be expanded to fit the screen. This has not been a problem in the past, and we are working to fix the problem at this time. 

 

Abbott Butte

Sarlin & Birchill

July 24, 1933

West 180° - 300°

Cougar Butte

Osbornes Project

Douglas County

Acker Rock

Moe & Cooper

August 9, 1933

East 60° - 180°

Coyote Point

Osbornes Project

Douglas County

Anderson Camp

Rittenhouse

May 10, 1934

60° - 180°

Quartz Mountain

Osbornes Project

Douglas County

Big Squaw Mountain

Moe & Birchill

August 12, 1933

North 300° - 60°

Black Butte

Osbornes Project

Douglas County

Black Rock

Snyder & Rittenhouse

August 8, 1933

West 180° - 300°

Little Black Rock

Osbornes Project

Douglas County

Butler Butte

Snyder

July 27-28, 1933

North 300° - 60°

Bald Ridges

Osbornes Project

Douglas County

Clayton Point

Unknown Photographer(s)

July 8, 1938

East 60° - 180°

Acker Rock

Osbornes Project

Douglas County

Collins

Moe & Rittenhouse

August 17, 1933

West 180° - 300°

Pickett Butte

Osbornes Project

Douglas County

Coyote Point

Unknown Photographer(s)

August 6, 1936

North 300° - 60°

Acker Rock

Osbornes Project

Douglas County

Devils Knob

Moe & Rittenhouse

August 16, 1933

North 300° - 60°

Pickett Butte

Osbornes Project

Douglas County

Grasshopper Mountain

Cooper

July 27, 1933

North 300° - 60°

Black Rock

Osbornes Project

Douglas County

Hershberger Mountain

Cooper

July 27, 1933

West 180° - 300°

Abbott Butte

Osbornes Project

Douglas County

Little Black Rock

Unknown Photographer(s)

August 5, 1936

East 60° - 180°

Highrock Mountain

Osbornes Project

Douglas County

Pickett Butte

Unknown Photographer(s)

August 7, 1936

East 60° - 180°

Devils Knob

Osbornes Project

Douglas County

1939 Aerial Index

Quartz Mountain

Moe & Birchill

August 10-11, 1933

West 180° - 300°

Big Squaw Mountain

Osbornes Project

Douglas County

1946 Aerial Index

Rattlesnake Mountain

Rittenhouse & Snyder

August 6, 1933

West 180° - 300°

Castle Rock

Osbornes Project

Douglas County

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