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Columbia River -- Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Logging in Clifton, Oregon photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: Album 345
Abstract

Album containing 71 black and white photographs of the logging industry in and around Clifton, Oregon, including workers, lumber camps, sawmills, and steam-powered logging equipment.

Dates: 1890-1909

Benjamin A. Gifford photograph album of rivers, waterfalls, and mountains in Oregon, Washington, and California

 Collection
Identifier: Album 609
Abstract

Album containing black and white photographs taken by Benjamin A. Gifford and primarily depicting rivers, waterfalls and mountains in Oregon, Washington, and California, particularly in the Columbia River Gorge.

Dates: 1892

Dorsey Griffin postcard collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1121
Abstract

Eighteen photographic postcards, color and black and white, with Oregon scenes, including hotels, buildings and parks in Portland, and scenes along the Columbia River.

Dates: circa 1904-1914

Historic Columbia River Highway photographic album

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 267
Abstract

Commercially produced photograph album of scenes along the Columbia River Highway in Oregon. The album includes promotional text about the highway and the Columbia River Gorge, and 35 black and white photographs of the highway and sights including Vista House and Crown Point, waterfalls, rock formations, Mount Hood, and the Columbia River.

Dates: circa 1922-1939

Ladd family photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 58
Abstract

Photographs relating to the Ladd family of Portland, Oregon, dating from 1860 to 1920. The Ladd family were bankers, real estate developers, philanthropists, and politicians in Portland. Collection also includes an album of Columbia River Gorge photographs taken by Sarah Hall Ladd and Lily E. White.

Dates: 1860-1989; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1930

North Bank Road photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: Album 275
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1911-1912

Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway main line scenes photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: Album 272-A
Abstract

Album containing black and white photographs by multiple photographers, circa 1920-1969, of scenes along the main line of the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway, from Portland, Oregon, to Spokane, Washington. A large number of the images were taken along the Columbia River and in the Columbia River Gorge. Also included are photographs of Mount Hood, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams, and aerial views of Portland and Spokane.

Dates: circa 1920-1969

Unidentified album pages

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1147
Abstract

Collection consists of black and white photographs on six pages removed from an unidentified album. Among the subjects depicted are scenes in the Columbia River Gorge, including Multnomah Falls, a fishwheel, a blockhouse, and Oneonta Gorge; Mount Hood and Mount Shasta; a joss house in Portland's Chinatown; portraits of Chinese opera actors in full costume; and unidentified people and residences.

Dates: circa 1880-1914

Chris Wheeler photographs collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 433
Abstract

This collection contains photographs and slides likely received and compiled by Chris L. Wheeler (1927-2013) during the time he served as state engineer of Oregon from 1962-1975. The bulk of the photographs depict the Tumalo Irrigation Project in Deschutes County, Oregon, from 1913-1915. Other photographs, color slides, and albums depict state and private irrigation efforts in Oregon from approximately 1910-1925, and dams and reservoirs in Oregon from 1950-1967.

Dates: circa 1910-1967

Lily E. White negatives

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1415
Abstract

Collection consists primarily of glass and film negatives attributed to Lily E. White. The negatives depict the Columbia River Gorge, Yosemite National Park, Yellowstone National Park, the California coast, the home of Sarah Hall Ladd and her husband, Charles Elliott Ladd, and Lily E. White’s houseboat, the Raysark. The photographs date from approximately 1900 to 1915.

Dates: 1900-1915