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Columbia River

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Columbia Communities Project oral histories

 Collection
Identifier: SRC 1
Abstract Oral history interviews collected by the Center for Columbia River History as part of the development of online exhibits about five communities in the Columbia River Basin: Camas, Washington; Cottage Grove, Oregon; Columbia Slough, Oregon; Umatilla, Oregon; and Sandpoint, Idaho. The exhibits focused particularly on changes in the communities since the 1930s, when construction of large hydroelectric dams in the basin began. The Center for Columbia River history was a joint project of the...
Dates: 1999-2000

Columbia River Transportation Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1015
Abstract

Accounts, receipts, and other documents, 1874-1875, related to the Columbia River Transportation Co. and the steamers Otter and Teaser.

Dates: 1874-1875

Collection on the status of title of lands required for proposed boat railway from foot of The Dalles Rapids to head of Celilo Falls

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 838
Abstract

Collection includes typescript correspondence and reports, 1899; a typescript release of mortgage by George H. Williams, 1899; and a manuscript report by J. S. Polhemus, 1898, on improving the Columbia River between Vancouver, Washington, and the mouth of the Willamette River.

Dates: 1898-1899

Stanley D. Young reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2024
Abstract

Typescript recollections of Stanley D. Young, 17 pages, 1950, of life on steamboats on the lower Columbia River, particularly the steamers Lurline and Hassalo, during the 1910s.

Dates: 1950