Wilma Roberts or Wilma Louise McCarty (1914 – 2014) was an

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photographer. Roberts was born in The Dalles, Oregon and learned photography from her mother Laura Spencer McCarty, who photographed the lifestyle of the Native Americans who lived around Butter Creek in the 1900s.''Celilo Falls : remembering thunder'' She is mostly known for her hand colored black and white photographs for Everett Olmstead's Elite Studio in The Dalles where she later worked for 35 years starting in 1939.Obituary
in The Dalles Chronicle She also set up a camera shop there for Olmstead's son "Mel O" in the late 1940s, and later produced a photography book based on a selection of her 1940s and 1950s photographs of the Celilo falls during the salmon fishing season before the

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later built the

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that made this impossible in 1957. The seasonal photographs became popular prints when the

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made this scene into a tourist attraction. Her photographs were recognized by the

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for which she became a judge herself and who made her a fellow in 1987. Roberts died in The Dalles.

References

website
for ''The Art of Wilma Roberts'' * Celilo Falls : remembering thunder ; photographs from the collection of Wilma Roberts, Wasco County Historical Museum Press, 1997,
Celilo Falls Education Fund
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Celilo Falls by the Elite Studio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, Wilma 1914 births 2014 deaths Photographers from Oregon American women photographers People from The Dalles, Oregon 21st-century American women