Oregon Experience: William Gladstone Steel

William Steel was an avid collector. For nearly 50 years he clipped newspaper articles and pictures that he placed in massive scrapbooks. He also compiled names. He made a hobby of both naming landmarks and collecting information about the origins of place names. In 1930, the U.S. government purchased many of Steel's scrapbooks for $1,000. The holdings contain 57,800 items and weigh 600 pounds. Most of the books are now in the Crater Lake National Park archives.

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