Charles W. Love was an amateur photographer and street railway employee in Portland, Oregon. This collection, consisting of photographic prints and glass-plate negatives, features images of the employees and cars of the Portland Railway Company, the City and Suburban Railway Company, and the Portland Railway, Light, and Power Company during the period from 1898-1910. Other photographs in this collection document Brownsville, Oregon, circa 1912.

Collection consists of correspondence, 1941-1967, memoranda, reports, court records and statistical data regarding the Rose City Transit Company; Portland Railway, Light, and Power Company; Portland Railway Company; and Portland Traction Company.

One drawing on 1 sheet of a steam ferryboat for the Portland Railway Co., by Johnston and Phillips, architects.