{{Short description|American photographer (1860–1946)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Sally Bush | image = SallyBush.jpeg | caption = <small>Photo credit: Bush House Museum, Salem Art Association Photo ID number bh1317.</small> | birth_date = October 29, 1860 | birth_place = Salem, Oregon, US | death_date = {{death date and age|1946|11|3|1860|10|29}} | death_place = Salem, Oregon, US | resting_place = Salem Pioneer Cemetery | alma_mater = Smith College | known_for = Philanthropy, photography | boards = Ladd and Bush bank,<br /> Vice President<ref name="Dept1912">{{cite book|author=Oregon. State Banking Dept|title=Annual Report of the State Banking Department of the State of Oregon: 1910–1912|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zohNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA91|year=1912|publisher=State Printer|pages=91}}</ref> | mother = Eugenia (Zieber) Bush | father = Asahel Bush }}
'''Sally Bush''' (October 29, 1860 – November 3, 1946) was an American photographer also known for her quiet philanthropy, especially her generosity toward hungry people during the Great Depression of the 1930s. She also served as her father's hostess at their home, Bush House in Salem, Oregon, in the United States.
==Early life and education== Sally Bush, daughter of Asahel Bush and Eugenia (Zieber)Born in Salem, Bush was the third of their four children. When she was almost three years old, her mother died of tuberculosis in 1863.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.salemhistory.net/people/sally_bush.htm|title=Salem (Oregon) Online History – Sally Bush|website=www.salemhistory.net|access-date=March 5, 2016|archive-date=September 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930205404/http://www.salemhistory.net/people/sally_bush.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":02">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/Oregon-Biographies-Asahel-Bush.cfm|title=Oregon Biographies: Asahel Bush|year=2002|website=The Oregon History Project|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927024829/http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/Oregon-Biographies-Asahel-Bush.cfm|archive-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=dead|access-date=December 1, 2007}}</ref> She attended Sacred Heart Academy in Salem, and graduated from high school from Moravian Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. After attending Martha Burnham school in Northampton, Massachusetts, she graduated from Smith College in 1883.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.salempioneercemetery.org/records/display_record.php?id=688|title=Salem Pioneer Cemetery – Sally Bush Obituary – part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon|website=www.salempioneercemetery.org|access-date=November 3, 2016}}</ref>
While she was still at Smith, she assisted her father in choosing wallpaper and other furnishings and budgeted their money for the new Bush residence in Salem, Oregon. It was eventually completed in 1887.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oregonlink.com/bush_house/|title=Asahel Bush House Museum|website=www.oregonlink.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416123508/http://oregonlink.com/bush_house/|archive-date=April 16, 2016|url-status=dead|access-date=November 3, 2016}}</ref>
== "Lady of the House" ==
For the next thirty years, Bush hosted guests from the town, as well as her father's business and political acquaintances.<ref name=":2" /> She was also<blockquote>...the loving caretaker of the home; the hostess at her father's dinner parties; the avid gardener, cultivating the flowers of the newly constructed Conservatory near the house, managing the vegetable beds and fruit trees on the property; the animal lover, tending to the cows and other farmyard creatures, caring for the dogs and cats — particularly the cats — which people left at her doorstep, knowing that each would be given a home.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Green|first=Virginia|date=Fall 2003|title=The Ladies of Salem's Bush Family|url=http://shineonsalem.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/HM-Ladies-of-Salems-Bush-Family.pdf|journal=Historic Marion|volume=41|issue=3|pages=2–3|access-date=November 3, 2016}}</ref></blockquote>She "carried on her many charities without ostentation",<ref name=":1" /> encouraging and sometimes financing the early careers of young writers and artists.<ref name=":3" /> Although she was a "complete vegetarian", she offered guests main courses of fish, fowl or meat, as well as many vegetable choices.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bushhousemuseum.blogspot.com/2010/09/dinner-at-bush-house.html|title=Bush House Museum: Dinner at Bush House|date=September 29, 2010|website=Bush House Museum|access-date=November 3, 2016}}</ref> She was a member of the Salem Garden Club and the Unitarian Church.<ref name=":1" />
Bush purchased a 1909 Baker electric car, but stopped driving it after her first outing, when she drove it through the front window of a local pharmacy.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://salem-heritage-network.blogspot.com/2010/02/salem-in-1884.html|title=Salem Heritage Network (SHINE): Salem in 1884|last=Green|first=Virginia|date=February 25, 2010|website=Salem Heritage Network (SHINE)|publisher=|access-date=November 3, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://breakfastonbikes.blogspot.com/2012/03/sally-bushs-electric-car-whats-old-is.html|title=Sally Bush's Electric Car: What's Old is New!|date=March 16, 2012|website=Salem Breakfast on Bikes|access-date=November 3, 2016}}</ref> Subsequently, chauffeurs drove the car.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://photos.salemhistory.net/cdm/singleitem/collection/bushhouse/id/326/rec/1|title=Bush family chauffeur, Jimmy, near the family's car, Salem, Oregon, 1913 – Bush Family Historic Photographs|year=1913|website=photos.salemhistory.net|publisher=Salem Public Library|access-date=November 3, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://photos.salemhistory.net/cdm/singleitem/collection/bushhouse/id/356/rec/1|title=Jacob Amsler, Bush family chauffeur, in Baker Electric car, Salem, Oregon – Bush Family Historic Photographs|website=photos.salemhistory.net|publisher=Salem Public Library|access-date=November 3, 2016}}</ref>
By 1912, she had become the vice president of the Ladd and Bush bank established by her father.<ref name="Dept1912"/>
thumb|Bush House from Mission Street, with oak trees, wildflowers, and cat. By Sally Bush, using glass plate negative process.<br /><small>Photo credit: Bush House Museum, Salem Art Association Photo ID number bh0005</small>
==Photography== Along with her brother A. N. Bush, Sally Bush became a proficient photographer.<ref name=":3" /> The Salem Public Library archives include over 2200 of their photographs, more than half taken by her, some using glass plate negatives.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://photos.salemhistory.net/cdm/singleitem/collection/bushhouse/id/134/rec/18|title=Bush House viewed from Mission Street, Salem, Oregon :: Bush Family Historic Photographs|date=November 19, 2003|website=photos.salemhistory.net|access-date=November 20, 2016}}</ref> She created both portraits and candid photos of her friends and family, Bush House, the grounds, and conservatory.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://photos.salemhistory.net/cdm/landingpage/collection/bushhouse|title=Bush Family Historic Photographs|website=photos.salemhistory.net|publisher=Salem Public Library|access-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref>
==Legacy== Bush is remembered as "a kind, generous, and compassionate woman, always prepared to assist families in need of food or clothing",<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=http://bushhousemuseum.blogspot.com/2010/10/sally-bush-woman-ending-hunger.html|title=Sally Bush: Woman Ending Hunger|date=October 14, 2010|website=Bush House Museum|access-date=November 3, 2016}}</ref> focusing much of their legacy in "quiet philanthropy".<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|title=Asahel Bush House {{!}} C-SPAN.org|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?317767-1/asahel-bush-house|access-date=2020-10-16|website=www.c-span.org|language=en-us}}</ref> In her honor, the Bush House Museum has established an annual Sally Bush Memorial Food Drive, in conjunction with the "Women Ending Hunger" campaign of the Marion-Polk Food Share.<ref name=":4" />
She has also been honored for her stewardship of Bush's Pasture Park and Historic Deepwood Estate, in an exhibition at the Bush Barn Art Center, ''Parks for People: Lord and Schryver's Legacy''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://salemart.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/A-Legacy-of-Stewardship-in-Salem-SAA-SJ-article.pdf|title=A Legacy of Stewardship in Salem's City Parks|last=Sutherland|first=Ross|year=2011|publisher=Salem Art Association|access-date=November 3, 2016|archive-date=November 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104142129/http://salemart.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/A-Legacy-of-Stewardship-in-Salem-SAA-SJ-article.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Biography|Visual arts|Oregon}} * Elizabeth Blodget Lord * Edith Schryver
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
==External links== * [http://salemart.org/programs/bush-house-museum/ Bush House Museum] * [https://www.c-span.org/video/?317767-1/asahel-bush-house C-SPAN: Asahel Bush House] (video 7:41)
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