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Records of the Central Southeast Preservation Project (CSEPP), an organization that nominated multiple properties in Southeast Portland, Oregon, for historic landmark status in the late 1980s. The collection includes administrative records, National Register of Historic Places nomination forms, color slides and black and white negatives of buildings, and survey and research documentation.

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Collection consists of 19 color slides taken by Robert S. Cline. They include scenes of Celilo Falls on the Columbia River and the surrounding landscape; fishing platforms and Native people fishing; and a tram over the falls.

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Collection consists of 23 color slides depicting the burning of the Forestry Building at NW 28th and Upshur St. in Portland, Oregon, on August 17, 1964. The building, designed by architect Ion Lewis, was constructed for the Lewis and Clark Exposition in 1905. It was described as the world's largest log cabin or the Timber Temple.

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Slides taken for the Oregon Department of Transportation, depicting the center-arch span of the Fremont Bridge in Portland, Oregon being hoisted into place in March 1973. The images show the 6000-ton steel span being floated by barge down the Willamette River and lifted 175 feet, the heaviest bridge lift ever completed at the time.

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Collection consists of 67 color slides of Oregon locations taken by Claude and Marguerite Killion of California during travels in the 1950s.

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Two color slides of Multnomah Falls from John Yeon's property on the Washington side of the Columbia River.

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Collection consists of 80 slides, taken by James Kenneth Peters, depicting the South Fork Forest Camp in the Tillamook State Forest, Oregon, including tree planting, buildings, and work crews. The camp is a minimum-security work camp established in 1951; Peters was a labor foreman there from 1960 to 1967.

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Collection consists of 129 color slides of the Portland Rose Festival parade in 1946, 1958, and 1961.

Abstract Records and memorabilia of the town Three Lynx (also called Three Lynx Village), a small company town in Clackamas County, Oregon. Materials include photographs, slides, historical research and documentation, correspondence, clippings, event programs, and recordings of oral histories with former residents. Three Lynx was established in the 1920s and 1930s by Portland Railway Light and Power (later PEPCO, now Portland General Electric) to support operation of the Oak Grove Powerhouse. The...

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Color slides depicting the construction and opening ceremony for the First National Bank of Oregon building at 1300 SE 5th Ave. in Portland, Oregon. The building is now the Wells Fargo Center. Ralph J. Voss (1910-2002) was president of the bank and oversaw the project to construct its headquarters. The building was reported by the Oregonian newspaper to be the tallest in the state at the time of its construction.