Collection consists of images taken during the 1948 Columbia River flood, which show flooding at Bonneville Dam and in Vanport and Portland, Oregon. The photographs were taken by Robert Menge, an employee with Bonneville Power Administration.

Photographs depicting the Tule Lake Relocation Center, the 1948 Vanport Flood, and students from the Northwest School of Photography. The photographs were taken and collected by Jerry Jiro Yasutome between 1945 and 1948.