This collection consists of photographs by Charles W. Love, an amateur photographer and street railway employee in Portland, Oregon. Forty-nine black and white photographs document various streetcar lines on which Love and his brothers worked between 1900 and 1910, most notably the lines in the areas of Albina and St. Johns. Thirty-five black and white photoprints show Brownsville, Oregon, circa 1912, including the Pendleton Woolen Mills facilities. One photograph also shows the downtown Portland waterfront area from the Willamette River.

This collection also includes 142 glass plate negatives, nineteen of which feature Eliza, of the Kalapuya people, who appears to have been personally known by the photographer. She is pictured in Brownsville at both his residence and her own in Brownsville. Other subjects photographed include Brownsville, Gearhart, lighthouses, and various ships in dry dock. Access prints made from many of the negatives in this collection are available to researchers.