The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1915-07-22
Collection of Kennewick Photo
graphs is Awarded First
Prize at San Francisco
SHOW VARIED RESOURCES
OF THE COMMUNITY
Gold Medal Banner is Hung Over the
Church Grape Juice Display
at the Exposition
(wherein the Editor Interviews
Himself)

1t will be remembered that at
Commercial club luncheon several
months ago there were displayed by
the publicity committee some thirty
photographs prepared by J. H. Grav-
enslund to be included in the Benton
county exhibit at the Panama-Pacific
Exposition at San Francisco.
Something has happened to those
photographs. They haven't been stol-
en- as was Mona Lisa, nor have they
achieved the notoriety of September
Morn. They have merely been award
ed gold medal for the best collection
of horticultural photographs at the
exposition and there are many thou
sands Of others there.
didn't see the medal or would
have grabbed it and carried it home
to the publicity committee before
Gravenslund beat me to it. The pic
lures were not entered in photo
graphy contest, neither were they ex-
hibited in the Palace Of Fine Arts.
The award was not made because of
their value as specimens of art, but
because, as collection, they so truly
depict the varied resources Of the
Kennewick country, showing as they
do, every phase Of activity in the COM
munity's development.
Although the award was. made. un-
der the classification Of Horticultural
Photographs the subjects of the pic
lures are by no means limited to ihor-
1ticulture. The famous miscellaneous
fruit pictures taken out on the old
Haxton ranch, the train crossing the
N. p. bridge, Ike Ely's hogs, Rich's
pear tree, Desgranges in a Highland
peach orchard and many other Of the
old stand-bys so familiar to the people
of Kennewick are included in the col
lection.
1 rs Photos are Tinted
The photos are colored to represent
as nearly as possible the natural col
oring. Now it is time for members
of the publicity committee to smile.
Yes, the pictures are colored and
thereby hangs a tale and almost a
lawsuit as Mr.. Gravenslund threaten
ed the publicity committee with an in
junction when 1t was proposed to use
Mrs. w. T. Mann's coloring instead
of his.
i And, by the way, they We're finally
colored, over the vigorous protest Of
the artist who declared tinted photog-
raphy was very much in vogue thirty
. years ago, but passed out along with
hoop skirts. Well, colored photography
came back this time for gold medal
and some of the Partisan models ex-
hibited in the dress department at the
exposition are suggestive of the fact
that hoops are lurking around the
side lines. - s....
The color idea originated with
Chairman Crawford, and even after
truce had been declared between the
committee and the photographer, Dip
J lomatic relations were almost severed
again when Crawford and Gravens-
} llund clashed over the intensity of the
+. color.
"This will never do. You gotta put
on more color" declared Crawford as
, he inspected one of the photos. IL
, simply can't bring myself to put on
! more color. 1t would be untrue to
J nature" insisted the artist. Mature
be d-hanged. We want something to
catch peoples eye," replied the chair
man. "Look at that blue in Rich's
overalls. Why, they look like they
4 had been washed dozen times" said
Crawford, as he picked up the pear
a tree photo. "Can'ts help it. The pic
ture is just as blue as the overalls
r WERE" argued Gravenslund.
"Makes no difference; we can't think
!, of sending Rich down to the exposition
. looking like that. Take him down tc
!. your studio and put a new pair Of
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