Collection consists of pages excised from the December 10, 1870, and May 20, 1876, issues of the periodical Appletons' Journal, both featuring articles and engravings related to salmon fishing on the Columbia River.

Six photographic prints, primarily from the 1920s. They include handwritten captions and may have accompanied, or been intended to accompany, magazine pieces by Paul A. Ewing. The photographs depict an overland wagon train; a car parked along the roadside near the summit of the McKenzie Pass highway; Native people fishing at Celilo Falls; a mountain along the John Day River; and a logging scene with a "big wheel."