Photographs
Found in 424 Collections and/or Records:
N. Crosby Ave., Portland, Oregon photographic collection
Photocopies of black and white photographs showing businesses and houses on N. Crosby Ave., in the Eliot neighborhood area of Portland, Oregon, before it was razed for the extension of N. Interstate Ave. between the Broadway and Steel bridges and, later, the Memorial Coliseum.
Photographs of Native people fishing and buildings along the Columbia River
Five black and white photographs with handwritten notes on the back that identify the images as being taken along the Columbia River in October 1942. Four of the photographs depict Native people fishing from platforms, probably at Celilo Falls; one shows wooden buildings and parked cars.
Madeline Nelson photographic collection
Mercedes Niiranen photographic collection on the United States National Bank of Portland, Citizens Branch
Seven black and white photographs, including one duplicate, of the employees of the United States National Bank of Portland, Citizens Branch, in Portland, Oregon, at Christmas parties and other events. Includes one portrait of a person identified on the back of the print as "Mr. Young."
North Bank Road photograph album
Photograph album, possibly compiled by the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway, containing black and white photographs, most taken by Fred H. Kiser, of landscape scenes along the Oregon Trunk Railway. Among the subjects depicted are the Celilo Bridge, the Deschutes River, the Tygh Valley, Mount Jefferson, Crooked River Canyon, and Benham Falls.
Oak Grove Powerhouse construction photograph album
Album of black and white photographs of the construction of a diversion dam on the Clackamas River, laying of water pipes, and the construction of the Oak Grove Powerhouse on the river.
Old Oregon Trail Centennial photograph album
Charles Oluf Olsen photographs
Collection consists of 34 photographs of scenes in Portland, Oregon, and in Vancouver and Longview, Washington, that were taken or collected by poet and author Charles Oluf Olsen between 1924 and 1931. Subjects depicted in the collection include an encampment of unhoused people, Lone Fir cemetery, Burnside Street, and the Longview Rolleo log-rolling competition.
Slides and audio recordings of Kitty O'Neil breaking land-speed record
Collection consists of color slides and audio recordings documenting Kitty O'Neil's successful attempt to break the women's land-speed record on December 6, 1976, in the Alvord Desert, Oregon. O'Neil (1946-2018) was a Hollywood stuntwoman who raced vehicles and held 22 speed records. Deaf from infancy, she advocated for equal opportunity for women and Deaf people.
Oregon album
Twenty black and white photographs of Oregon scenes, including: the Columbia River Gorge, Portland, Ashland, Table Rock, and the Willamette River.