Half-length portrait of the English writer G. K. Chesterson. He is facing front and looking toward the right. He is wearing a hat, pince-nez, overcoat, suit jacket and vest, collared shirt, and tie. This photograph may have been taken in March 1931, when Chesterton gave a lecture in Portland. The text “Sir Gilbert Chesterton” is written on the negative and is visible on the left side of the image.

Half-length portrait of the English writer G. K. Chesterson facing slightly right and looking toward the front. He is wearing a hat, pince-nez, overcoat, suit jacket and vest, collared shirt, and tie. This photograph may have been taken in March 1931, when Chesterton gave a lecture in Portland. The text “Sir Gilbert Chesterton” is written on the negative and is visible on the left side of the image.

A portrait of author Mildred Masterson McNeilly, after the release of her third novel “Each Bright River.”She wears a hat and jacket, and is holding a copy of her book. A cropped version of this photograph was published in the Oregon Journal on Friday, April 14, 1950 (negative 1 of 2).

A portrait of writer Elizabeth Lambert Wood, seated in a chair. She wears a cameo necklace around her throat (negative 1 of 4).

A portrait of author Zoe Lund Schiller. She appears to be signing a book while seated at a table in a Portland bookshop (negative 1 of 2).

A portrait of author Claire Churchill Thompson, sitting in an armchair while writing on a piece of paper. A photograph from this series was published in the Oregon Journal on Thursday, February 25, 1954 (negative 1 of 4).