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Portland Railway Company Car
This 1905 photograph shows a Portland Railway Company car at the NW 26th Avenue and NW Upshur Street entrance of the Lewis and Clark Exposition, …
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Portland Rose Festival, 1910
This charming horse-drawn float participated in a parade in Portland’s Third Annual Rose Carnival. The event would eventually be known as the Rose Festival Parade. …
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Portland-Seattle Turnverein Special Train
The Portland Turnverein was the local chapter of the German American athletic (gymnastic) association. Turnverein, coined after the German word turnen, or physical …
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Portland's Laboring Class
As a frontier city, Portland had always had many more adult men than women. The young men were usually unmarried and accustomed to moving from …
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Portland Waterfront, West Side, c. 1922
This photograph of Portland’s west side waterfront was taken from one of the towers of the Hawthorne Bridge in about 1922. Portland’s origin as a …
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Port of Astoria - Astoria-Warrenton District
In 1919, the Port of Astoria began to improve its commercial maritime shipping capacity. Contractors built new piers, a flourmill, a grain elevator, and expanded …
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Port Orford Cedar
Port Orford cedar (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana) is a coniferous tree native to southern Oregon and northern California. This 1922 photo shows several mature cedars …
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Port Orford Quadrangle
This map was part of the twenty-first annual report of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), published in 1900. It shows land classification and timber density …
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Portrait of Henry Pittock with Two Babies
Henry Pittock, shown here near the turn of the twentieth century, arrived in Portland in 1853. Thomas J. Dryer, publisher of the Oregonian, …
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Post-War Malaise and Home Front Boom
When war production came to a halt and the Kaiser shipyards rapidly closed, over 125,000 people lost their jobs. Temporary declines in aluminum and timber …
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