The 1901 Portland Blue Book holds a mystery. In this edition of this annual publication Barchus had a full-page advertisement. In it she promotes herself by noting that she exhibited her Mt. Hood painting at the National Academy of Design 9th Annual Exhibition (1890). She also states that her painting of Mt. Corcoran was exhibited in the National Academy’s 17th (1898) annual show. Additionally, a receipt from a New York art company confirms that Barchus had delivered a framed Mt. Corcoran painting to the city at the time. (See [[.) A search of National Academy of Design exhibition records do support the Mt. Hood painting being exhibited but not a Mt. Corcoran. The 1901 directory would have gone to print by late 1900, nearly a year after the 1898 NAD show had occurred. Is it possible that the Barchus painting in this year did not get included in the NAD records?