Twenty-four black and white photographs, 1917-1918, depicting the construction of ships, ship launches, shipyards, employees and wartime activities of the Grant Smith, Porter, Guthrie Company in Oregon.

This collection contains photographs and negatives of Charles A. Sprague (1887-1969), governor of Oregon from 1938-1942, as well as of his wife, Blanche Chamberlain Sprague, and their children, Wallace and Martha. The images depict Sprague's political activities, as well as the Sprague family's private life.