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Mar 12, 1819 Died on 03 Oct 1905 (aged 86)
American photographer
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About Peter Britt
- Peter Britt (Obstalden, Canton of Glarus, Switzerland 12 March 1819 - Jacksonville, Oregon, 3 October 1905) was a Swiss portrait painter and American pioneer photographer, meteorologist, accomplished horticulturist, an early settler and developer in the Rogue Valley of the Oregon Territory.
- Britt is considered as one of the Pacific Northwest's most celebrated photographers, as well as the "father of the grape industry" in Southern Oregon.
- His photos of Crater Lake were instrumental in creation of the Crater Lake National Park in 1902.
