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.
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Sarlin & Birchill July 24, 1933 |
West 180° - 300° Cougar Butte Douglas County |
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Moe & Cooper August 9, 1933 |
East 60° - 180° Coyote Point Douglas County |
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Rittenhouse May 10, 1934 |
60° - 180° Quartz Mountain Douglas County |
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Moe & Birchill August 12, 1933 |
North 300° - 60° Black Butte Douglas County |
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Snyder & Rittenhouse August 8, 1933 |
West 180° - 300° Little Black Rock Douglas County |
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Snyder July 27-28, 1933 |
North 300° - 60° Bald Ridges Douglas County |
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Unknown Photographer(s) July 8, 1938 |
East 60° - 180° Acker Rock Douglas County |
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Moe & Rittenhouse August 17, 1933 |
West 180° - 300° Pickett Butte Douglas County |
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Unknown Photographer(s) August 6, 1936 |
North 300° - 60° Acker Rock Douglas County |
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Moe & Rittenhouse August 16, 1933 |
North 300° - 60° Pickett Butte Douglas County |
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Cooper July 27, 1933 |
North 300° - 60° Black Rock Douglas County |
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Cooper July 27, 1933 |
West 180° - 300° Abbott Butte Douglas County |
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Unknown Photographer(s) August 5, 1936 |
East 60° - 180° Highrock Mountain Douglas County |
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Unknown Photographer(s) August 7, 1936 |
East 60° - 180° Devils Knob Douglas County |
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Moe & Birchill August 10-11, 1933 |
West 180° - 300° Big Squaw Mountain Douglas County |
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Rittenhouse & Snyder August 6, 1933 |
West 180° - 300° Castle Rock Douglas County |
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