Photo curation by Dan W. Kee, Dennis Tong, and Roberta Wong. Digital compilation provided by Gregory Fox, DRGdigital.
View selected images from Bue Kee's photo albums
Bue Kee’s albums provide a rare and beautiful insider’s glimpse into his Oregon from the 1910s – 1940s: friends and families in Portland Chinatown, hops farming in Clackamas County, attending the Portland Art Association’s Museum Art School (opened in 1909, now known as Pacific Northwest College of Art), making ceramics at the Oregon Ceramic Studio and working during the Great Depression with the Works Progress Administration’s (W.P.A.) Federal Art Project at Timberline Lodge and Tongue Point Naval Station.
BUE KEE’S FAMILY
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Bue Kee
Hong Kee and Ming Kee
May Kee Jann
Ruth Kee
Ted Kee
Myrtle Kee and Wilson Kee
Bue Kee's Parents
ART SCHOOL & STUDIO
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Museum Art School (Portland)
Art School Friends
Working with Clay at Museum Art School
Bue Kee
Plates for Opera by Bue Kee
Bue Kee's Work at the Portland Art Museum
Bue Kee, OWL, 1939.
Bue Kee, THE LANE, 1939.
Sculpting Models
Bue Kee's Ceramics at Timberline Lodge
Bue Kee at Timberline Lodge
HOP YARD AND FIELDS
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Kee House and Sheds
Hop Fields
Hop Yard
Bue Kee with Hop Basket
Kee as Foreman
Bue and Ming Kee with Hop Workers
Bue Kee's Siblings and Friends
Learn more about the Kee Family and the role of Chinese-Americans in shaping Oregon's hops industry
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