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Port of Portland/Commission of Public Docks Photographs Collection, 1911-1997
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Port of Portland (Or.)
- Title
- Port of Portland/Commission of Public Docks Photographs Collection
- Dates
- 1911-1997 (inclusive)19111997
1913-1942 (bulk)19131942 - Quantity
- 20.61 cubic feet, (8,970 photographs, 19 photomechanical prints, approx. 5,300 negatives, and other manuscript material in 39 document boxes, 21 oversize boxes, 3 oversize folders, and 6 photograph albums)
- Collection Number
- Org. Lot 10
- Summary
- Photographs extensively document facilities and activities of the Port of Portland, which was established by the Oregon Legislature in 1892, and the Commission of Public Docks, which was established by the City of Portland in 1910. The photographs reflect the activities of the two agencies as they operated in tandem to deepen and maintain shipping channels, provide marine terminals and related services, promote trade, and build and maintain airports and industrial parks. The commission was merged into the Port of Portland in 1970.
- Repository
-
Oregon Historical Society Research Library
1200 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR
97205
Telephone: 503-306-5240
Fax: 503-219-2040
libreference@ohs.org - Access Restrictions
-
The collection is open to the public.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Funding for preparing this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Historical NoteReturn to Top
With improvements to navigation on the Columbia, Willamette, and Snake rivers and many rail lines converging on Portland, the city’s harbor became an important shipping point, especially for agricultural and lumber producers in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The Port of Portland and the Commission of Public Docks built and maintained much of the infrastructure that made that possible.
The Port of Portland was created by the Oregon Legislature in 1891, and the Commission of Public Docks (also commonly referred to as the Dock Commission) was established by the City of Portland in 1910, each with similar statutory powers over Portland harbor and shipping channels on the Willamette and Columbia rivers. Until the two merged in 1970, however, they generally operated in tandem, each with a different focus. The Port of Portland took responsibility for deepening and maintaining shipping channels, constructing and operating dry docks, providing towage and pilot services, building airports, and reclaiming lands for industrial use. The Commission of Public Docks focused primarily on construction and operation of docks and terminals.
Less than a decade after the Commission of Public Docks was established, the Portland City Council authorized a study to formulate plans for waterways, public terminals, and water sites. In 1921, the committee suggested consolidation of the Port of Portland and Dock Commission, as well as dredging a new Willamette River shipping channel west of Swan Island to replace the difficult-to-navigate channel east of the island. Voters in Portland and Multnomah County favored the consolidation, but it lost by 2,000 votes in the statewide initiative that would have authorized the Port of Portland to acquire Dock Commission property and assume its bonded indebtedness. One result of the failure to achieve consolidation was sale of the Dock Commission’s newly-completed Municipal Dry Docks to the Port of Portland in 1923. The Port achieved another committee recommendation as it dredged a new shipping channel west of Swan Island during the next decade. Efforts to consolidate the Port and the Dock Commission continued but were torpedoed primarily by inability to agree on which body should absorb the other. Consolidation of the Dock Commission into the Port of Portland finally was achieved in 1970.
The Dock Commission opened Terminal No. 1 on Northwest Front Avenue near Union Station in 1913. With various expansions, notably one completed in 1938, Terminal No. 1 included the main Quay Dock facing the river, Piers A and B, Slips No. 1 and 2, a lumber dock, Warehouse No. 1, a 100-ton sheer leg derrick, and automobile and machine shops. Terminal No. 2 at the foot of Southeast Washington Street on the other side of the river was completed in 1915. Its two-level quay dock generally served riverboat and coastwise traffic. Terminal No. 3 at the foot of North Alta Street on the east bank of the Willamette was constructed by the City of St. Johns in 1910. The Dock Commission obtained it in 1915, when St. Johns was incorporated into the City of Portland. The small terminal facility served the coastal trade for a few years, but it was soon closed and then demolished in 1929 to make way for construction of the St. Johns Bridge.
Construction was completed in 1919 on the first phase of Terminal No. 4 on a 212-acre site on the east bank of the Willamette, located north of the St. Johns Bridge. Under Dock Commission ownership, it grew to include many piers, with deep-water slips, rail trackage for direct transfer to and from ships, a grain elevator with capacity of 2 million bushels, a ventilated fruit storage warehouse and cold storage unit, a bulk vegetable oil/molasses storage plant, coal bunkers, Administration Building, Welfare Building, Lunch Rooms, Power Plant, Repair Shop, and various other facilities. As of 2004, a greatly-expanded Terminal 4 continued to be the international shipping center of Portland harbor.
Initially, the primary purpose for creation of the Port of Portland was dredging and maintaining a 25-foot channel in the Portland harbor on the Willamette north to the Columbia and on the Columbia to the sea, including the Columbia Bar. Later, this became the least of its functions as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers assumed primary responsibility for channel deepening and maintenance, but the Port provided dredging equipment as required by the Corps, leased its dredges for various public and private projects, and conducted dredging and filling projects in the vicinity of Portland. This work moved the shipping channel from the east side to the west side of Swan Island, filled the Rivergate Industrial District at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia, and filled Swan Island for construction of the city’s first municipal airport, which was begun in 1926. As planes increased in size, it soon became inadequate, and the port filled a site along the Columbia River to create the Portland-Columbia Airport, which opened in 1940. With a new 8,800-foot runway in 1951, the airport could handle international flights and became Portland International Airport. The Port acquired the Troutdale and Hillsboro airports and continued to add more industrial districts.
During World War II, the federal government took over the Dock Commission’s terminals and the Port’s dry docks and Swan Island facilities for wartime shipping and shipbuilding needs. It took a few years after the war to return to full peace-time operations under Dock Commission and Port of Portland control.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Photographs extensively document facilities and functions of the Port of Portland and Commission of Public Docks, primarily during the period when they operated as separate agencies. Very few include identified people, but many show people at work. The Dock Commission group provides extensive coverage of Portland harbor, bridges, and shipping, including many privately-owned docks. The Dock Commission amassed a large collection of quality 8-inch by 10-inch prints and their negatives, produced primarily by Angelus Studio, and maintained them through an in-house numbering and indexing system for use in annual reports and other publications. The Port of Portland did most of it's own photography, primarily in 3-inch by 5-inch format, and used an in-house numbering system to match negatives to prints. Many of the photographs were originally mounted on album pages, and the collection includes some intact albums.
The collection includes no photographs of the Commission of Public Docks facilities or activities before 1913 or of the Port of Portland before 1920. Documentation is strong for the period up to World War II, when the federal government took over. After the war, the collection includes much smaller numbers of images mostly in various small formats, probably staff produced. All Dock Commission photographs and most Port images are black-and-white, but the Port group also includes a few color prints. Also included are some black-and-white prints made at the Oregon Historical Society from original negatives.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
The Oregon Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Research Library prior to any reproduction use. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.
Preferred Citation
Port of Portland/Commission of Public Docks Photographs Collection, Org. Lot 10, Oregon Historical Society Research Library
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into the following subgroups and series:
- Subgroup 1: Commission of Public Docks, 1911-1960
- Series A: Index to Photographs and Printing Plates, 1912-1951
- Series B: Municipal Terminal No. 1, 1913-1957
- Series C: Municipal Terminal No. 2, 1915-1950
- Series D: Municipal Terminal No. 3, 1919-1922
- Series E: Municipal Terminal No. 4, 1917-1960
- Series F: Municipal Boat Landing, 1913-1941
- Series G: Portland Harbor and Shipping, 1918-1956
- Series H: Other Ports and Port Organizations, 1919-1944
- Series I: Proposed Plans for Harbor Improvements, 1912, 1920
- Series J: General Photographs, 1911-1960
- Series K: Dry Docks and Shipyards, circa 1916-circa 1960
- Subgroup 2: Port of Portland, 1920-1997
- Series A: Job Files, 1920-1937
- Series B: Subject Files, 1920-1938
- Series C: Other Unclassified Images and Albums, 1922-1997
Custodial History
The Commission of Public Docks photographs collection was donated to the Oregon Historical Society under the direction of commission chairman, Capt. Homer Shaver, in 1962. At that time, the Oregon Historical Society was serving as the City of Portland Archives. The Port of Portland collection was donated to the Historical Society in increments between 1970 and 1998.
Acquisition Information
Gift of City of Portland, 1962. Gift of Port of Portland: 1970, 1992, and 1998 (Accession numbers 11398, 11561, 20927, 23626, and 23652).
Processing Note
Original order was maintained whenever possible or known. Many but not all negatives have been matched to prints.
Separated Materials
Some Commission of Public Docks records, which were given to the Oregon Historical Society when it served as the City of Portland archives, are in the Research Library's Manuscript Collections (Mss 2279). A Port of Portland collection of manuscripts, charts, and drawings that had been donated to the Oregon Historical Society was returned to the Port as part of an agreement that maintained the photographs collection at the Historical Society.
Bibliography
Port of Portland Traffic Department and Commission of Public Docks. The World's Sea Lanes Lead to the Port of Portland. Portland, Or.: Port of Portland, 1922. (In Research Library, call number 386.8 P839.)
Related Materials
Although some records of the Dock Commission were transferred to the Port of Portland at the time of the merger, most of the Dock Commission Records are maintained at the City of Portland's Stanley Parr Archives & Records Center, which also has a small quantity of related photographs. The Port of Portland maintains its own archives. The Oregon Historical Society Research Library has many related materials, including books, maps, manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, and vertical files, which may be accessed through the online catalog and onsite card catalogs.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
Subgroup 1: Commission of Public Docks, 1911-1960Return to Top
Documents the activities and especially the facilities constructed and maintained by the Commission of Public Docks at various points along the Willamette River in Portland. Also well covered are the Portland harbor and bridges, the Port of Portland dry docks and other shipbuilding on Port facilities, ships in the harbor, and private docks and industries. All identified ships are listed in container-level descriptions.
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
---|---|---|---|
Series A: Index to Photographs and Printing
Plates 18 folders
manuscripts
Index cards provide a key to the commission's original numbering
system, as well as the index to photographs. Also included are three other
indexes to Cuts and Engravings; Copper Half-Tones for Annual Reports, 1913-1926
and 1932-1940; and Cuts Loaned, 1934-1938, as well as a small quantity of
related correspondence. The fate of the cuts, engravings, and copper half-tones
themselves are not known, but they probably were discarded by the Commission of
Public Docks.
|
1912-1951 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
1/1 | Key to Index |
undated | |
1/2 | Portland Harbor
Ships are indexed by their location in the harbor when
photographs were made.
|
1920-1940 | |
1/3 | Port of Portland Airport [Swan
Island] |
1929 | |
1/4 | General
Includes privately-owned docks, dry docks, and Columbia River
images.
|
1919-1937 | |
1/5 | Port of Portland Dry
Docks |
1920-1939 | |
1/6 | [E.H.] Bennett Plans [
The Greater Portland Plan] |
1912 | |
1/7 | Atlantic and Pacific Coast
Ports |
1922; 1925; undated | |
1/8 | Municipal Terminal No.
1 |
1919-1945 | |
1/9 | Municipal Terminal No.
2 |
1917-1937 | |
1/10 | Municipal Terminal No.
4 |
1917-1940 | |
1/11 | Flood |
1948 | |
1/12 | Operations and
Facilities |
1948-1951 | |
1/13 | Cuts and Engravings |
undated | |
1/14 | Copper Half-tones for Annual
Reports |
1913-1926 | |
1/15 | Cuts Used in Annual
Reports |
1932-1940 | |
1/16 | Cuts Loaned |
1934-1938 | |
1/17 | Correspondence |
1940/-941 | |
Series B: Municipal Terminal No.
1
551 photographic
prints : b&w
424 photographic prints
in 2 albums : b&w
1 photomechanical
print : b&w
Photographs document construction, development, and use of the
Commission of Public Dock's first municipal terminal. Some images are on album
pages (Box 14).
The series is arranged into the following seven sub-series:
General Images, Quay Dock, Pier A, Pier B, Warehouse No. 1, Piers C-F, and
Construction and Repair, 1937-1938.
|
1913-1957; 1913-1942 | ||
Subseries 1: General Images
233 photographic
prints : b&w
1 photomechanical
print : b&w
|
1913-1948 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
2/1 | Drawing [photomechanical reproduction] |
circa 1920 | |
2/2 | Perspective drawing—proposed expansion plan
[photographic reproduction] |
1937 | |
2/3 | Site before construction |
1913 | |
2/4 | Construction [original prints] |
1913 | |
2/5 | Construction [contact prints from original
negatives] |
1913 | |
2/6 | General views
Identified vessels: SS
Floridian, SS
Luckenbach, SS
Missourian, SS
Peter Kerr, SS
San Rafael, SS
Wheaton, and USS
Omaha .
|
1922-1923; 1927-1928; 1934; 1936; 1938 | |
2/7 | Ships at terminal
Identified vessels: SS
General Pershing, SS
Gomeral, SS
Heridia, SS
Maratanza, and MS
Dagmar Salien.
|
1919; 1922; 1937 | |
Box/Folder | |||
2/8 | 14/4 | Inspection by Dock Commissioners |
1938 Feb. 25 |
2/9 | Flood and cleanup [original prints] |
1948 May-June | |
2/10 | Flood and cleanup [contact prints from original
negatives] |
1948 May 31 | |
2/11 | Flood and cleanup [contact prints from original
negatives] |
1948 June 1 | |
2/12 | Flood and cleanup[contact prints from original
negatives] |
1948 June 2-9 | |
2/13 | Commission of Public Docks Office |
1941; 1950 | |
Subseries 2: Quay Dock
99 photographic
prints (b&w)
|
1913-1948 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
2/14 | General Views
Identified vessels: SS
Julia Luckenbach, SS
Steel Inventor, SS
West Harcuva, SS
West Keats, SS
West Togus , and MS
Tuscaloosa City.
|
1919; 1921; 1938 | |
2/15 | Ship at dock—USS
Relief
|
1929 | |
2/16 | Sheer Leg Crane
A series of images shows crane hoisting gates for Bonneville
Dam. Identified vessels: SS
Alabaman, SS
Alaskan, and SS
Samoan.
|
1938-1940 | |
2/17 | Warehouse A—exterior |
1913; circa 1924; 1931 | |
2/18 | Warehouse A—interior |
1917; 1919; 1921-1922; 1924; 1929-1931; 1938-1939 | |
2/19 | Ships loading/unloading
Identified vessels: SS
Atlantic, SS
Edgar F. Luckenbach, SS
Olokson, SS
Point Lobos, SS
Pomona, SS
Pedro Christopherson, SS
w, SS
San Rafael, SS
Steel Exporter, SS
Steelmaker, SS
Texmar, SS
Walter Luckenbach, SS
West Kader, SS
West Keats, and SS
West Nivaria.
|
1919; 1921-1922; 1929-1931; 1937-1939 | |
2/20 | Damage caused by SS
Henrik Ibsen
|
1924 Jan. 16 | |
2/21 | Log that allegedly damaged SS
Pacific
|
1925 Nov. 24 | |
2/22 | Damage to dock |
1945 Jan. 25 | |
Subseries 3: Pier A
65 photographic
prints (b&w)
|
1919-1939 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
3/1 | General views, including construction
Identified vessels: SS
Rose City, SS
Steel Scientist, SS
West Katan, and sternwheel
tugboat
Portland.
|
1920; 1925; 1936 | |
3/2 | Ships at pier
Identified vessels: SS
General Pershing, SS
Portland, SS
Princess Nora, SS
West Katan, and MS
Heiyo Maru.
|
1928; 1931-1933; 1938 | |
3/3 | Warehouse B—interior |
1919; 1921; 1929; 1939 | |
3/4 | Ships loading/unloading
Identified vessels: SS
Florida, SS
Liberator, SS
Pacific, SS
Portland, SS
Princess Nora, SS
Steel Inventor, SS
West Katan, and MS
Heiyo Maru.
|
1921-1922; 1924; 1929-1931; circa 1940 | |
3/5 | Accident—rail car |
1928 June 10 | |
3/6 | Damage to pier |
1939 Sept. 21 | |
3/7 | Dredging Slip 1 |
1932 | |
Subseries 4: Pier B
93 photographic
prints : b&w
|
1922-1941 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
3/8 | Demolition to clear site |
1922 | |
3/9 | General views
Identified vessels: SS
Atlantic, SS
Oregonian, SS
Paul Luckenbach, and SS
Steel Scientist.
|
1922; 1925; 1930 | |
3/10 | Ships at the pier
Identified vessels: SS
Canton, SS
Exilona, SS
Isthmian, SS
Minnesotan, SS
Missourian, SS
Oregonian, SS
Point Clear, SS
Paul Luckenbach, and MS
Cape Flattery.
|
1922; 1930; 1936-1937; 1939; 1941 | |
3/11 | Warehouse—interior |
1922; 1929-1930; 1932 | |
3/12 | Warehouse—interior |
1936-1937; 1939; 1941 | |
3/13 | Ships loading/unloading
Identified vessels: SS
Calmar, SS
Canton, SS
Dakotan, SS
Lewis Lukenbach, SS
Navadan, SS
Texan, SS
Utahan, and SS
Willkeno.
|
1922; 1924-1925; 1929-1930; 1932; 1934; 1937; 1939 | |
3/14 | Accident site—Chris Bluhm |
1941 Dec. 23 | |
3/15 | Damage to pier |
1922; 1929; 1931 | |
Subseries 5: Warehouse No. 1
14 photographic
prints : b&w
|
1919-1939 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
3/16 | Exterior |
1919; 1936-1937 | |
3/17 | Extension—derailment damage |
circa 1930 | |
3/18 | Interior |
circa 1924; 1928; 1931; 1936; 1939 | |
Subseries 6: Piers C, D, E, and
F
46 photographic
prints : b&w
|
1931-1957 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
3/19 | Pier C
Identified vessels: MS
Dagmar Salénand SS
Steelmaker.
|
1937 | |
3/20 | Pier C—damage by SS
Pacific Commerce
|
1931 Oct. 24 | |
3/21 | Piers D, E, and F—construction |
1949-1950 | |
3/22 | Piers D, E, and F—damage to Northern Pacific flatcar
8924 |
1950 | |
3/23 | Piers D, E, and F—damage to fence by truck and
car |
1951 Feb. 24 | |
3/24 | Piers D, E, and F—damage to gate and
fence |
1951 | |
3/25 | Piers D, E, and F—damage to Lumber Dock |
1951 | |
3/26 | Pier F [Berth 6] |
1957 June 20 | |
Subseries 7: Construction and
Repair
227 photographic prints
in 2 albums : b&w
Images in part of Album 10-1 and all of Album 10-2 provide
detailed documentation of major repairs to many areas of Municipal Terminal No.
1 and construction of the Quay Dock Extension, Warehouse No. 2, open rail area,
and the Gear Locker building. Album 10-1 includes 8-inch by 10-inch prints,
while most prints in Album 10-2 are 3.5-inch by 4.5-inch, with a few 3.5-inch
by 5.75-inch and 8-inch by 10-inch prints included. Identifications and dates
are handwritten in ink on the front edges or imprinted into the negatives of
all images in Album 10-2. The 8-inch by 10-inch prints were produced by Angelus
Studio, and the rest may be professional- or staff-produced images.
The album pages were removed from damaged covers for
preservation and arranged in original order in folders. Each image in Album
10-2 was annotated with numbers of original negatives included in the
collection.
|
1937-1938 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
14/5 | Album 10-1—pp. 23-34
Includes 12 images of construction work on the Quay Dock
Extension, open area with rails, and Warehouse No. 2, as well as Warehouse No.
1 before wrecking started and wrecking the face of the Quay Dock.
|
1937 July-August | |
14/6 | Album 10-1—pp. 35-54
Includes 19 images of warehouse interiors and exterior
terminal views as construction was starting and one image of construction of
the Quay Dock Extension.
|
1937 March 3; 1937 April 30 | |
14/7 | Album 10-1—pp. 55-60
Includes 6 images of construction on Warehouse No. 2 and
other areas.
|
1937 April | |
14/8 | Album 10-2—pp. 1-16
Includes 16 images of completed Quay Dock Extension and
Warehouse No. 2, Feb. 12, 1938, followed by images documenting the beginning of
construction on Warehouse No. 2 and Gear Locker, March-May 1937.
|
1937-1938 | |
14/9 | Album 10-2—pp. 17-32
Warehouse No. 2 construction.
|
1937 May-July | |
14/10 | Album 10-2—pp. 33-48
Documents construction of Quay Dock Extension and repairs to
Quay Dock and Warehouse No. 1. Includes image of first cargo in new Warehouse
No. 2, Aug. 13, 1937; an aerial view of the terminal site, August 1937; and
images of the first ship to dock at the Quay Dock Extension, the MS
Dagmar Salén, Nov. 11, 1937.
|
1937 July-November | |
14/11 | Album 10-2—pp. 49-60
Documents completion of repairs on Quay Dock, including rail
work; ships at dock, including SS
Steelworkerand locomotive on
rails; repairs to Pier A; and more images of completed work, including
warehouse interiors, Feb. 12, 1938.
Dagmar Salén, Nov. 11, 1937.
|
1937 November-1938 February | |
Series C: Municipal Terminal No.
2
92 photographic
prints : b&w
1 photomechanical
print : b&w
|
1915-1950 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
3/27 | Drawing [photomechanical print] |
circa 1920 | |
3/28 | Construction |
1915 | |
3/29 | General views |
1919; 1929; circa 1950 | |
3/30 | Ships at the terminal
Includes image of unidentified ship in World War I camouflage
and another of a floating machine and repair shop. Identified vessels: SS
Admiral Evans, SS
Admiral Farragut, SS
Admiral Schley, SS
Aurelia, SS
Brookings, SS
City of Topeka, SS
Coast Farmer, SS
Dorothy Alexander, SS
Fionia, SS
Florence Olson, SS
General Sherman, SS
Harney, SS
La Merced, SS
Mapia, SS
Maunawili, SS
Muname, SS
Pleasantville, SS
Queen, SS
Sunucentco, SS
West Jena, SS
West Keats, MS
Drechtdyk, USS
Lindenwald, Portland fireboat
David F. Campbell, Steamboat
Claire, and submarines USS
Hawkbill and USS
Icefish.
|
1919-1921; 1923-1924; 1927; 1930-1933; 1935-1937; 1939; circa 1950 | |
3/31 | Commission of Public Docks Administration
Building
3070 N. Front Avenue
|
1950 December | |
3/32 | Warehouse—interior |
1919; 1921-1922; 1924; 1928-1929 | |
3/33 | Warehouse—interior |
1931-1933; 1936-1940; 1942 | |
3/34 | Warehouse—truck loading platform |
1929; 1931; 1936-1937; 1939-1940; 1942 | |
3/35 | Ships loading/unloading
Identified vessels: SS
Brookings, SS
Curacao, and SS
Mapia.
|
1929; 1935; 1937; 1939 | |
4/1 | Accident scene—in warehouse
Luther Loomis, victim
|
1928 | |
4/2 | Damage to Pier 4
Includes image of "Condemned" sign. People identifiied: Mr.
Gordon and Mr. Davis.
|
circa 1950 | |
4/3 | Flood and aftermath
Includes Portland fireboat
Mike Lauden.
|
1948 May 31-June 10 | |
Series D: Municipal Terminal No.
3
9 photographic
prints : b&w
1 photomechanical
print : b&w
St. Johns City Dock became Municipal Terminal No. 3 after the
City of St. Johns was incorporated into the City of Portland in 1915, but the
photographs indicate that the signage wasn't changed until 1919. Additions were
constructed in 1922.
|
1919-1922 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
4/4 | Drawing [photomechanical] |
circa 1920 | |
4/5 | Municipal Terminal No. 3
Identified vessels: SS
Eastern Sailor, SS
Kokomo, and SS
West Keats.
|
1919-1920; 1922 | |
Series E: Municipal Terminal No.
4
923 photographic
prints : b&w
1 photomechanical
print : b&w
The series is arranged into the following five sub-series:
General Images, Pier 1, Pier 2, Pier 4, and Grain Elevator.
|
1917-1960; 1917-1941 | ||
Subseries 1: General Images
280 photographic
prints : b&w
1 photomechanical
print : b&w
|
1917-1959; 1917-1942 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
4/6 | Drawings [photomechanical and photographic
reproductions] |
1919-1922 | |
4/7 | Perspective drawing [photographic
reproductions] |
1924 | |
4/8 | Site and construction
Includes three-image panorama of the site (mounted on
linen).
|
1917-1918 | |
4/9 | Construction and repair projects—Civil Works
Administration (CWA) |
1933-1934 | |
4/10 | Construction—grain tank |
1954-1955 | |
4/11 | Construction—site of expansion |
1957 | |
4/12 | Construction |
1957 December-1958 October | |
4/13 | Construction |
1959 | |
4/14 | General views |
1919-1923 | |
4/15 | General views |
circa 1927; circa 1930-1931; 1937; circa 1942; circa 1950 | |
14/12 | General view
Oversize black-and-white print with small section of
background hand-colored.
|
circa 1935 | |
4/16 | General views—damaged print |
circa 1930 | |
4/17 | Administration Building |
1920; 1929 | |
4/18 | Cafeteria |
1920; 1922 | |
4/19 | Fumigating Plant |
1923 | |
4/20 | Gear Lockers |
1932-1933 | |
4/21 | General Petroleum Corporation plant |
ca. 1925 | |
4/22 | Railroad facilities |
1920-1922 | |
4/23 | Terminal Flour Mills |
1934 April 26 | |
4/24 | Traveling Unloader—manufacturing by Dravo
Corporation
Images removed from album for preservation purposes.
|
1959 | |
4/25 | Truck—Commission of Public Docks |
circa 1930 | |
4/26 | Dock Commission office staff inspection
trip |
1919 Oct. 25 | |
4/27 | Brig. Gen. Black's group tour |
1921 Oct. 19 | |
4/28 | Strike preparations |
1934 | |
14/4 | Harbor Patrol portraits |
1938 | |
4/29 | Loading fire boat
Abner Longley for Honolulu |
1951 March 3 | |
4/30 | Unloading
Erria after fire |
1951 | |
4/31 | Fatal automobile accident |
1936 Feb. 28 | |
4/32 | Flood |
1948 May 31-June 2 | |
4/33 | Flood—repair of coal bunker |
[1948 June] | |
Subseries 2: Pier 1
311 photographic
prints : b&w
|
1917-1959; 1917-1941 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
4/34 | Construction |
1917-1919 | |
4/35 | Dedication |
1919 April 12 | |
4/36 | General views
Identified vessels: Sternwheel tugboat
Cascades, SS
Absercos, SS
Dornoch, SS
Lowther Castle, SS
Peter Kerr, and MS
Hindanger.
|
1919-1920; 1922; 1922-1923; 1925; 1927; 1932; 1937 | |
4/37 | Ships at the pier
Identified vessels: Sternwheel tugboat
No-Wonder, SS
Coast Miller, SS
Damsterdyk, SS
Pacific Exporter, and SS
Wisconsin.
|
1919-1920; 1934 | |
4/38 | Transit Shed—interior |
1920-1921 | |
4/39 | Transit Shed—interior |
1925; 1929-1931; 1938-1939; ca. 1940 | |
4/40 | Warehouse (lower)—interior |
1920 | |
4/41 | Warehouse (upper)—interior |
1919-1920; 1925; 1929; 1937; 1940; 1941 | |
Harbor Extension |
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Box/Folder | |||
5/1 | Interior |
1923 | |
5/2 | Ventilated Warehouse—construction |
1922 | |
5/3 | Ventilated Warehouse—exterior |
1923-1924 | |
5/4 | Ventilated Warehouse—interior |
1923-1924; 1930; 1932 | |
Box/Folder | |||
5/5 | Railroad loading/unloading |
1920; 1922; 1941 | |
5/6 | Ships loading/unloading
Includes bulk grain loading (1921) and use of Barlow
elevator for loading sacked grain. Identified vessels: SS
Abercos, SS
Bolivia, SS
Coaxet (U.S. Shipping Board), SS
Hanley, and SS
West Hartland.
|
1919-1921 | |
5/7 | Ships loading/unloading
Includes loading of crated automobiles by crane. Identified
vessels: SS
Carlton, SS
Commercial Pathfinder , SS
Ibukisan Maru, SS
Iwatisan Maru, SS
West Monham, and sternwheel
tugboat
No-Wonder.
|
1922; 1925 | |
5/8 | Ships loading/unloading
Includes unloading of Portland's first shipment of grain by
barge. Identified vessels: SS
Dalcroyand, MS
Roseville .
|
1933-1939 | |
5/9 | Ships loading/unloading
Includes "Airveyor" system for unloading grain barges,
including a Shaver Forwarding Company barge. Identified vessels: SS
Ramonaand MV
Mercury .
|
1940; 1959; undated | |
5/10 | Accident scene—O.B. Skibbee |
1924 Oct. 3 | |
5/11 | Accident scene—Forrest A. Hill |
1928 June 26 | |
5/12 | Damaged timbers/pilings |
1928; 1930-1931; circa 1940 | |
5/13 | Fire Damage—Gallery B |
1939 March | |
5/14 | Roof damaged by cyclone |
1924 May | |
Slip 1 |
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Box/Folder | |||
5/15 | Construction—general views
Also shows grain elevator under construction.
|
1919 | |
5/16 | Construction—wharf at head of Slip 1
Also shows grain elevator under construction.
|
1919 | |
5/17 | General views—including ships in Slip
1
Includes Commission of Public Docks locomotive. Identified
vessels: SS
Abercos, SS
Atlantic Maru, SS
Benrinnes, SS
Cape Town Maru, SS
Coaxet, SS
Handicap, SS
Haxtum , SS
Heijin Maru, SS
Hermion, SS
Japtha, SS
Keats, SS
Kongosan-Maru, SS
London Merchant, SS
Maru Fuchu, SS
Meigen Maru, SS
Meiyo Maru, SS
Montague, SS
Nebraska, SS
Northwestern Miller, SS
Olen, SS
Pawlet, SS
Pennsylvania, SS
Peter Kerr, SS
Ryoka Maru, SS
Salina, SS
Seiyo Maru, SS
Shunten Maru, SS
Waban, SS
West Coyote, SS
West Jena, SS
West Kader, SS
West Nomentum, SS
Yeikoku Maru, MS
Lochgoil, MS
Siam, and unidentified
four-masted brigantine.
|
1920-1922; 1924-1925; 1927; 1929 | |
5/18 | General views—including ships in Slip
1
Includes Commission of Public Docks locomotive. Identified
vessels: SS
Ann Stathatos, SS
Bolshoy Tschantar, SS
Damsterdyk , SS
Devon City, SS
Dornoch, SS
General Lee, SS
Hawaiian Planter, SS
Henry D. Whiton, SS
Lowther Castle, SS
Pleasantville, SS
Rose City, SS
Roseville, SS
San Bernadino, SS
San Clemente, SS
San Lucas, SS
Venice Maru, SS
Wisconsin, MS
Hindanger, USS
Louisville, and USS
Quincy.
|
1931; 1933-1934; 1937-1941 | |
5/19 | Ships loading/unloading
Identified vessels: SS
Abercos, SS
Coaxet, SS
Haxtum , SS
Hermion, SS
Montague, SS
Waban, SS
Wawalona, SS
West Kader, MS
Siam, and barkentine
Charles E. Crocker.
|
1920-1922; 1933-1934; 1937-1939; 1941 | |
5/20 | Ships loading/unloading
Identified vessels: SS
Brazil Maru, SS
Dilworth , SS
Dorothy Luckenbach, SS
Lochgoil, SS
Ohioan, and MS
Benrinnes.
|
1924; 1929; 1937 | |
5/21 | Visitors
Includes school group (1921) and President's Council
(1930). Identified vessels: SS
Hermion, SS
Montague, and MS
Siam.
|
1921; 1930 | |
5/22 | Wreck recovery—MS
Feltre
Raised after collision at mouth of Willamette River, towed
to Terminal 4, and unloaded at Slip 1.
|
1937 | |
5/23 | Damage by MS
British Columbia
Express
Raised after collision at mouth of Willamette River, towed
to Terminal 4, and unloaded at Slip 1.
|
1940 | |
5/24 | Damage by MS
British Columbia
Express—report and diagram
Raised after collision at mouth of Willamette River, towed
to Terminal 4, and unloaded at Slip 1.
|
1940 | |
Subseries 3: Pier 2
128 photographic
prints : b&w
|
1920-1960; 1920-1941 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
5/25 | Construction |
1920-1921 | |
5/26 | Views with ships
Identified vessels: SS
Ancarstrey, SS
Dominion Miller, SS
Henry D. Whiton, SS
New York, SS
Northwestern Miller, SS
Shinhei Maru, and tugboat
Keith.
|
1924; 1933-1934; 1940-circa 1941 | |
5/27 | SS
Munami at dock
Includes images showing ice on the Willamette River
(1930).
|
1930; 1934 | |
5/27 | Bulk cargoes
Cargoes in storage and transit include cedar and aspen logs,
chrome ore, coal, scrap automobile wheels, sulfur, and timbers. Identified
vessel: SS
Arauco.
|
1920-1921; 1937; 1941; 1960; undated | |
6/1 | Warehouse—interior |
1921-1922; 1924; 1932; 1937 | |
Box/Folder | |||
6/2 | 14/4 | Warehouse—wool sales
Buyers gathered to bid on wool sales conducted on the
warehouse floor. Images include prospective buyers examining sacked and loose
wool, bidding in progress, and wool growers completing paperwork in the
warehouse office.
|
1933; 1936; 1939-1940 |
6/3 | Railroad loading/unloading
Identified vessel: SS
Robert Dollar.
|
1922; 1924 | |
6/4 | Ships loading/unloading
Identified vessels: SS
Atlanta City, SS
Cardiganshire, SS
Colusa, SS
Deerfield, SS
Heinan, SS
Henry D. Whiton, SS
Maro, SS
Narenta, SS
Nebraska, SS
Northumberland, SS
Rakuyo Maru, and SS
Tuscan Star.
|
1921-1922; 1924; 1935 | |
6/5 | Ships loading/unloading
Identified vessels: SS
Aratama Maru, SS
Colusa, SS
Dornoch, SS
Dorothy Luckenbach, SS
Lowther Castle, SS
Mauna Ala, SS
Nordhval, and MS
Hegeria.
|
ca. 1936; 1937-1938; 1940-1941; undated | |
6/6 | Ships loading/unloading—SS
President Hays
Also includes image of the vessel departing Municipal
Terminal 4.
|
1923 January | |
6/7 | Crane No. 3—overturned |
1941 Feb. 13 | |
6/8 | Crane accident |
undated | |
6/9 | Chief Engineer H.M. Anundson on Pier 2
Matson Lines terminal
|
undated | |
Subseries 4: Pier 5
157 photographic
prints : b&w
|
1920-1960; 1920-1941 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
6/10 | Drawings [photographic reproductions] |
1921 | |
6/11 | Construction |
1920-1921 | |
6/12 | General views |
1921; 1923; 1933; 1949-ca. 1950 | |
6/13 | Ships at the pier
Identified vessels: SS
Tsurushima Maru, and SS
Yoshida Maru.
|
1921 | |
6/14 | Bulk Storage Plant |
1921; 1933; undated | |
6/15 | Coal bunkers and loading facilities |
1949; undated | |
6/16 | Oil Dock and Storage Plant |
1920-1922; 1925; 1933; 1949 | |
6/17 | Railroad loading/unloading |
1920-1922 | |
6/18 | Ships loading/unloading
Identified vessels: SS
Anson S. Brooks, SS
Ceylon, SS
Chamblee, and SS
Sudawsonco.
|
1921; 1923-1925; 1927; 1929 | |
6/19 | Ships loading/unloading
Identified vessels: SS
Claremont (sunk at terminal), SS
Herman Frasch, SS
Nichito Maru, SS
Syohei Maru, and SS
William Taylor.
|
ca. 1930; 1937; 1940-1941; 1957; 1960 | |
6/20 | Accident scene—R. D. Powell |
1921 April 28 | |
6/21 | Accident scene—fatality, Gordon Reid of Broadway Cab
Co. |
1932, Nov. 7 | |
6/22 | Accident —Haiss loader |
1948 June | |
6/23 | Damage to |
1924-1925 | |
6/24 | Damage to—by MS
Kowha Maru
|
1931 September | |
6/25 | Damage to—by MS
Kowha Maru—repair (Contract
No. 184) |
1931 December | |
6/26 | Damage to A frame, slipside conveyor |
1948 March | |
6/27 | Damage to A frame on floating crane |
1951 Feb. 12 | |
6/29 | Damage to—checked by Chief Engineer H.M.
Anundson |
undated | |
Subseries 5: Grain Elevator
48 photographic
prints : b&w
|
1918-1937 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
7/1 | Perspective drawing [photographic
reproductions] |
1919 | |
7/2 | Construction
Contractor, Grant Smith Co. Includes dedication, 1919 April
12
|
1918-1920 | |
7/3 | Exterior views
Includes views of railroad traffic.
|
1920-1921; 1931-1933 | |
7/4 | Interior views
Includes men at work and machinery.
|
1921; 1923; 1937 | |
7/5 | Accident scene—Charles Walters, fatality |
1924 Oct. 7 | |
Series F: Municipal Boat
Landing
47 photographic
prints : b&w
The Municipal Boat Landing was constructed at the foot of Stark
Street on the Portland harbor. Images show development of Mulkey Park in front
of the building and its use as Commission of Public Docks general offices, as
well as a portrait of the Portland Harbor Patrol posed at the facility.
|
1913-1941 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
7/6 | Construction |
1913 | |
7/7 | Views from land side
Includes portrait of Portland Harbor Patrol, Jan. 25,
1937.
|
circa 1915; 1929; 1937; 1941 | |
7/8 | Views from water side |
circa 1915; circa 1929 | |
Series G: Portland Harbor and
Shipping
380 photographic
prints : b&w
This series includes some of the best photographs of the
Portland harbor, bridges, and ships, including both the east and west sides of
the Willamette River.
The series is organized into two subseries: Harbor By Location
and Fleet Week Ships.
|
1918-1956; 1918-1941 | ||
Subseries 1: Harbor By Location
315 photographic
prints : b&w
The Dock Commission organized the prints in this series by
location, using Portland harbor's many bridges as landmarks.
|
1918-1956 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
7/9 | Above Madison Street Bridge
Includes views of Madison Street Bridge and Boat Landing,
Woodward Avenue Boat Landing operated by the Dock Commission, Inman Poulsen
Lumber Company docks, and Battleship Oregon Park, and scrapping of the
battleship at Alaska Junk Co. Identified vessels: SS
Bel Jeanne , and USS
Oregon.
|
1920; 1936; 1940; ca. 1942 | |
7/10 | Between Madison Street Bridge and Morrison Street
Bridge
Includes both east and west sides of the river and a dock
cave-in at foot of Taylor Street (1929). Business and industry includes
Columbia Contract Co., Fisher-Thomsen Co., M. Bard & Sons, Portland Seed
Co., Stephenson Co., Supple's Dock, Swigert, Hart & Yett Co., and Werth
Boat Builders. Identified vessels: unidentified steamboats, tugboats, and the
barges
Ohio , and
Ontario.
|
ca. 1920; 1928-1929 | |
Box/Folder | |||
7/11 | 14/3 | Between Madison Street Bridge and Morrison Street
Bridge
Includes good views of Portland seawall and the Public
Market (some on album pages in Box 14, Folder 3). Business and industry
includes M. Bard & Sons, Portland Trust Savings Bank, Powers Furniture, and
W.P. Fuller & Co. Identified vessels: HMCS
Skeena and HMCS
Vancouver, Eagle boats USS PC57
and USS PC38, MS
Damsterdyk, USS
Alwin, USS
Dale, USS
Detroit, USS
Farragut, USS
Gilmer, USS
Independence, USS
Monaghan, USS
Reuben James, and USS
Williamson, US Coast Guard
cutters
Samuel D. Ingram and
Onondaga, and Portland fireboat
David Campbell..
|
1932; 1934-1937; 1939; undated |
7/12 | Between Morrison Street Bridge and Burnside
Bridge
Includes views both east and west sides of river, Municipal
Terminal No. 2, log rafts, and series showing deterioration of Standard Box
& Lumber Co. dock (1929). Business and industry includes Cudahy Packing
Co., Eagle Stores, Holman Transfer Co.. May Hardware Co., Nickum & Kelly
Sand Co., Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation dock (foot of Ash
Street), Page & Son, Standard Box & Lumber Co., and Western Fuel Co.
Identified vessels: unidentified steamboats, tugboats, and fireboat in slip, as
well as HMS
Colombo , HMS
Despatch, USS
Decatur , USS
Hamilton, USS
Percival, USS
Somers, US Coast Guard cutter
Red Wing ( icy water), and
Portland fireboat
Mike Laudenklaus.
|
ca. 1920; 1928-1930 | |
7/13 | Between Morrison Street Bridge and Burnside
Bridge
Includes views of both bridges, opened and closed, Municipal
Terminal 2, and U.S. Navy hydroplanes. Business and industry includes Bell
& Co. Wholesale Fruits and Produce, Blake, Moffitt & Towne, City
Transfer & Storage, Holman Transfer Co., J.K. Gill Co., Keystone Press, May
Hardware Co., Monroe & Crisell Creamery, Northwestern Transfer Co.,
Portland Paper Box Co., Portland Trust Savings Bank, Power's Furniture, and
Savinar Exchange. Identified vessels: unidentified steamboats, tugboats, and
fireboat in slip, as well as French cruiser
Jeanne d'Arc, German cruiser
Karlsruhe, HMS
Dragon, USS
Augusta, USS
Concord, USS
Crowninshield, USS
Detroit , USS
Hale, USS
Omaha, USS
Portland, USS
Raleigh, USS
Tarbell, USS
Upshur, USS
Worden, and US Coast Guard
cutters
Onondagaand
Red Wing .
|
1931-1935 | |
7/14 | Between Morrison Street Bridge and Burnside
Bridge
Includes view of formation of U.S. Navy parade at harbor
seawall and night views with U.S. Navy searchlights for Fleet Week 1936, as
well as Municipal Terminal 2. Business and industry includes Columbia Supply
Co., May Hardware Co., Mobilegas General Petroleum, Monroe & Crisell
Creamery, Northwestern Transfer Co., Portland Paper Box Co., Peerless Pacific
Co., and Power's Furniture. Identified vessels: SS
L.P. St. Clair (Union Oil Co.
tanker), USS
Chester, USS
Chicago , USS
Crane, USS
Henley(shakedown cruise), USS
Houston, USS
Indianapolis, USS
KennisonUSS
New Orleans , U.S. Army Corp of
Engineers ship
Cavanaugh, steamboat
Lake Bonnevilleand a harbor
sightseeing boat (25 cents a ride) .
|
1936-1940 | |
7/15 | Between Burnside Bridge and Oregon-Washington
Railroad & Navigation Bridge (Steel Bridge)
Includes views of east and west banks, railroad yards, and
construction of OWRR&N bridge. Business and industry includes
Blietz-Weinhard brewery, Mack Truck dealership, Northwestern Ice & Cold
Storage Co., Southern Pacific railroad siding and docks, Spokane, Portland
& Seattle Railway siding, and United Grocers. Identified vessels: German
cruisers
Emdenand
Karlsruhe, German tanker
Hansa , HMCS
Skeena, HMCS
Vancouver, USS
Augusta, USS
Farragut, USS
Grier , USS
Independence, USS
Memphis, USS
Omaha, USS
Portland, MS
Kota Inten, SS
Eleanor Christenson, SS
Hanley, SS
Shohei Maru , Lightship
Swiftsure, and Portland fireboat
F.W. Mulkey .
|
circa 1920; 1932-1934; 1936-1938; 1941; undated | |
7/16 | Between Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation
Bridge (Steel Bridge) and Broadway Bridge
Includes views of east and west banks, Union Station, and
construction of OWRR&N bridge. Business and industry includes Albers docks,
Globe Mills elevator and dock, McCormick Terminal. Includes an unidentified
ship in camouflage (circa 1919), as well as vessels: SS
Rose City , and SS
Wallingford.
|
circa 1919-1920; 1925 | |
7/17 | Between Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation
Bridge (Steel Bridge) and Broadway Bridge
Includes views of east and west banks and Union Station.
Business and industry includes Albers docks and McCormick Terminal. Identified
vessels: HMS
Dragon, USS
Chandler, USS
Hovey, USS
Oregon, USS
Southard , MS
Canada, SS
Barbara C , SS
Munami, SS
Texas Planter, SS
West Cape, SS
West Planter, steamboat
Fleetwood, and tugboat
Shamrock (towing hog fuel
barges).
|
circa 1919; circa 1925; 1933-1938; undated | |
7/18 | Between Broadway Bridge and Spokane, Portland &
Seattle Railway Bridge
Includes views of east and west banks and of Albina Ferry
landing, Mock's Bottom, and Swan Island. Business and industry includes Albers
Dock No. 3, Columbia Dock, Crown Mills, Eastern & Western Lumber Co.,
Foundation Co. shipyards [foot of Nicolai], Irving dock, Kerr-Gifford & Co.
dock, Mersey Dock, Montgomery dock, North Pacific Lumber Co., O-WRR&N Co.
Albina Dock, Pacific Coast Coal Co., Pacific Coast Grain elevator and dock,
Portland Fouring Mills Co. dock, Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway dock
(Weidler Dock), and Union Pacific dock. Identified vessel: SS
Camino.
|
1918-1920 | |
Box/Folder | |||
7/19 | 14/2 | Between Broadway Bridge and Spokane, Portland &
Seattle Railway Bridge
Includes views of east and west banks and of Portland
Municipal Airport on Swan Island. Business and industry includes Albers Dock
No. 3, Kerr-Gifford & Co. dock, Northern Pacific Lumber Co. dock (damage
to), Portland Flouring Mills Co., and Portland Van & Storage Co. Identified
vessels: USS. Some images of the Municipal Airport are on album pages in Box
14, Folder 2.
Omaha, USS
Oregon.
|
1924; 1928-1929 |
7/20 | Between Broadway Bridge and Spokane, Portland &
Seattle Railway Bridge
Includes views of east and west banks and of unloading
street cars. Business and industry includes Admiral Line Terminal, Albers Flour
Mill and Dock No. 3, Albina Mills, Crown Mills, Kerr-Gifford & Co. elevator
and dock, Portland Flouring Mills Co., Portland Vegetable Oil Mills, Santa Cruz
Portland Cement Co., Shell Oil dock, Standard Oil dock, and Union Oil dock.
Identified vessels: French cruiser
Jeanne d'Arc, German cruiser
Karlsruhe, MS
Amerika, MS
Corneville, MS
, SS
Dorothy Alexander, SS
Frumenton, SS
General Sherman (swastika on
stack), SS
Heredia (swastika on stack), SS
Mathew Luckenbach, SS
Montgomery City, SS
San Clemente, SS
San Parthenia, SS
Santa Cruz Cement, USS
Constitution, USS
Marblehead, USS
Portland, ferry
Multnomah, and tugboat
Mamo.
|
1931-1934 | |
8/1 | Between Broadway Bridge and Spokane, Portland &
Seattle Railway Bridge
Includes views of east and west banks and of unloading
street cars. Business and industry includes Albina Dock, Albina Mills, Crown
Mills, Kerr-Gifford & Co. elevator and dock, Northwestern Dock, Oceanic
Terminals. Identified vessels: French cruiser
Jeanne d'Arc, German cruiser
Karlsruhe, MS
Canadian Star, MS
Columbia Star, MS
Elizabeth Bakke (maiden voyage),
MS
Erria, MS
Hoegh Silvercrest, MS
Nordstjernan, MS
Rose, MS
Silverguava, MS
Southern Prince, MS
Tatukami Maru (maiden voyage),
MS
Venezuela (maiden voyage), MS
Washington Express, SS
Rothermere (maiden voyage), and
SS
W.H. Rheem .
|
1935; 1937-1939 | |
8/2 | Between Broadway Bridge and Spokane, Portland &
Seattle Railway Bridge—MS
Klipfontein
Maiden voyage of passenger liner. One view in harbor and
interior views of public areas and a stateroom.
|
1939 Nov. 19 | |
8/3 | Between Broadway Bridge and Spokane, Portland &
Seattle Railway Bridge
Views include Columbia Basin Terminals and Swan Island.
Identified vessels: MS
George Luckenbach, MS
Redjacket (maiden voyage), and
submarine USS
Hawkbill.
|
1940; 1956; undated | |
8/4 | Below Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway
Bridge
Includes views of east and west banks and good views of the
St. Johns Bridge, under construction and completed. Business and industry
includes Jacobsen Construction Co. Identified vessels: German cruiser
Karlsruhe, MS
Pleasantville, SS
Wilhelmina, USS
Augusta, USS
Concord, USS
Detroit, USS
Memphis, and USS
Tarbell .
|
1929; 1931-1933 | |
8/5 | Below Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway
Bridge
Includes views of east and west banks and U.S. Government
Moorings. Business and industry includes General Petroleum dock and Richfield
Oil dock. Identified vessels: MS
Benjamin Franklin, MS
Damsterdyk, SS
Alladin, USS
Henley (shakedown cruise), USS
New Orleans, submarine USS
Swordfish, and tugboat
Chief .
|
1934; 1936-1937; 1940; undated | |
8/6 | Harbor locations unidentified
Identified vessels: German cruiser
Emden, SS
Beaver, SS
Carrillo, SS
Helene, SS
Sunewco, aircraft carrier USS
Independence, USS
Rizal, unidentified grain
schooners and the six-masted lumber schooners
Oregon Fir and
Oregon Pine.
|
1918; circa 1920; circa 1925; 1932; 1936; circa 1940; undated | |
8/7 | Harbor locations —flood
Snapshots at various harbor locations.
|
1948 | |
Subseries 2: Fleet Week Ships
69 photographic
prints : b&w
Fleet Week brought many U.S. military ships to visit Portland
harbor, where they were open to tours. Eventually, the event became part of the
annual Rose Festival celebration. Among the most notable Fleet Weeks was 1934,
which featured a visit by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The 1936 anbd 1937
Fleet Week images include outstanding photographs of the nighttime searchlight
display. Some images are on album pages in Box 14/folder 1.
|
1934; 1936-1938 | ||
Box/Folder | Box/Folder | ||
8/8 | 14/1 | Fleet Week
Includes image of President Franlin D. Roosevelt receiving
Navy salute and Presidents' Parade. Identified vessels: USS
Houston (with President
Roosevelt aboard), and USS
San Francisco.
|
1934 |
14/1 | Fleet Week—parade and searchlight
display |
1936 August | |
8/9 | Fleet Week—ships C-H
Good views of the St. Johns Bridge. Identified vessels: USS
Chester , USS
Chicago, USS
Farragut, and USS
Houston.
|
1936 August | |
8/10 | Fleet Week—ships M-R
Identified vessels: USS
Milwaukee , USS
Omaha, USS
Relief, and U.S. Customs boat
Robert N.
|
1936 August | |
14/1 | Fleet Week—parade formation at Civic Stadium and
searchlight display
Good view of St. Johns Bridge. Identified vessels: USS
Arctic , USS
Astoria, USS
Chicago, USS
Fox, and USS
Indianapolis.
|
1937 July | |
8/11 | Fleet Week—ships A-L
Good view of St. Johns Bridge. Identified vessels: USS
Arctic , USS
Astoria, USS
Chicago, USS
Fox, and USS
Indianapolis.
|
1937 July | |
8/12 | Fleet Week—ships M-T
Good views of St. Johns Bridge and other bridges. Identified
vessels: USS
Marblehead , USS
Memphis, USS
Minneapolis, USS
New Orleans, USS
Northampton, USS
Richmond, USS
Salt Lake City, and USS
Trenton.
|
1937 July | |
8/13 | Fleet Week
Good views of St. Johns Bridge and other bridges. Identified
vessels: USS
Arctic , USS
Medusa, USS
Pensacola, USS
Relief, USS
Tuscaloosa, and USS
Vincennes.
|
1938 July | |
8/14 | Fleet Week
Good views of St. Johns Bridge and other bridges. Identified
vessels: USS
Brooklyn , USS
Honolulu, USS
Nashville, USS
Philadelphia, and USS
Phoenix.
|
1938 July | |
Series H: Other Ports and Port
Organizations
13 photographic
prints : b&w
|
1919-1944; undated | ||
Box/Folder | |||
8/15 | Baltimore, Maryland—model of harbor |
undated | |
8/16 | Seattle, Washington
Includes views of Skinner & Eddy Corp. floating dry dock,
Seattle fishing fleet at dock, and shear leg derrick in operation. Also
includes street scene. Ship SS
Osaqumsick is shown in dry
dock.
|
1919; ca. 1930; 1937 | |
8/17 | Pacific Coast Association of Port
Authorities—conventions in Portland |
1938; 1944 | |
Series I: Proposed Plans for Harbor
Improvements
21 photographic
prints : b&w
Photographic reproductions of drawings from plans produced for
the Commission of Public Docks, Port of Portland, and other entities.
|
1912-1920 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
8/18 | Proposed Plans for Harbor Development—Swan Island
Industrial Sites |
1920 | |
8/19 | Consulting Board Plans
Reproductions of plates from a Consulting Board Plan submitted
to the Commission of Public Docks.
|
circa 1920 | |
8/20 | E.H. Bennett's plan for "Greater Portland"
Reproductions of sketches and maps from the plan. The
published version, edited by Marshall Dana, is available in the Oregon
Historical Society Research Library book collection.
|
1912 | |
Series J: General Photographs
597 photographic
prints : b&w
1 folder
manuscripts
The series is arranged into the following seven subseries:
Aerial Photographs, Businesses and Industrial Plants, Columbia River, Damaged
Buildings and Docks, Prints Used in Publications, Unclassified or Unidentified
Images, and Mounted Prints.
|
1792; 1911-1960 | ||
Subseries 1: Aerial Photographs
182 photographic
prints : b&w
All except one are oblique aerial photographs that document
the Willamette River in the Portland area, but some also document the Columbia
River from its mouth to Bonneville Dam and Cascade Locks. Some show the
Commission of Public Docks Municipal Terminals. Most were made by Brubaker
Aerial Surveys, but a few other photographers are represented. Also included is
one vertical aerial from an unidentified source.
The series is arranged alphabetically by photographer's name,
then alphabetically by location, and finally alphabetically by names of private
industrial sites. Although the aerials are designated by a particular location,
they tend to cover wider areas and show much more than the designated
location.
|
1922-circa 1955; 1922-1941 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
9/1 | Ackroyd Photography, Inc.—Municipal Terminal No.
1 |
circa 1955 | |
9/2 | Ackroyd Photography, Inc.—Municipal Terminal No.
4 |
circa 1955 | |
Brubaker Aerial
Surveys |
circa 1922-1941 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
9/3 | Columbia River—Bonneville [town] |
1930 | |
9/4 | Columbia River—Bonneville Dam—site
Some images include cut-out drawings of elements of the
dam overlaid onto the aerial photograph.
|
1931; 1933 | |
9/5 | Columbia River—Bonneville
Dam—construction |
1934-1938 | |
9/6 | Columbia River—Cascade Locks
Includes view of Bridge of the Gods.
|
circa 1929 | |
9/7 | Columbia River—Hayden Island
Pacific International Livestock Exposition.
|
circa 1922 | |
9/8 | Columbia River—mouth [Pacific Ocean]
One image is annotated in ink showing locations of
dredging work.
|
circa 1929; 1931; 1935 | |
9/9 | Columbia River—Portland-Columbia
Airport
Later renamed Portland International Airport.
|
1937-1941 | |
9/10 | Columbia River—Portland Union
Stockyards |
1922 | |
9/11 | Columbia River—at Willamette River
mouth |
1931 | |
9/12 | Columbia/Willamette rivers—Rivergate Industrial
District
Developed by the Port of Portland.
|
1939; 1941 | |
9/13 | Willamette River—Central Portland [east and west
sides]
Good views of the bridges from Ross Island on the south to
Broadway on the north.
|
1928-1929; 1930-1932; 1935-1939; 1941 | |
9/14 | Willamette River—East Portland |
1929; 1935-1936; 1938 | |
9/15 | Willamette River—Linnton |
1938 | |
9/16 | Willamette River—Municipal Terminal No.
1 |
circa 1928-1932 | |
9/17 | Willamette River—Municipal Terminal No.
1 |
1935-1939 | |
9/18 | Willamette River—Municipal Terminal No.
4 |
circa 1928; 1932; 1934; 1941 | |
9/19 | Willamette River—Oceanic Terminals
After 1947, known as the West Coast Terminals.
|
circa 1929; 1932 | |
9/20 | Willamette River—Oil Basin Docks |
circa 1928; 1930-1932; 1938; 1940-1941 | |
9/21 | Willamette River—Port of Portland dry
docks |
circa 1928; 1932; 1938-1939 | |
9/22 | Willamette River—St. Johns |
circa 1929; 1931; 1936 | |
9/23 | Willamette River—Swan Island
Includes Portland Municipal Airport and Kerr-Gifford
Elevator Dock.
|
circa 1927; circa 1929; 1931-1932; 1940 | |
9/24 | Willamette River—Eastern & Western Lumber
Co.
Hand-inked annotations in red show planned locations of
Terminal 1, Berths 6, 7, and 8. Annotations may post-date the aerial
photograph.
|
1939 | |
9/25 | Willamette River—Hancock Oil Dock |
circa 1928; 1938; 1941 | |
9/26 | Willamette River—Lloyd A. Fry Roofing
Co. |
1939 | |
9/27 | Willamette River—Peninsula Lumber Co.
Good view of log booms.
|
circa 1928 | |
9/28 | Willamette River—Portland Gas & Coke
Co. |
circa 1928; 1939; 1941 | |
9/29 | Willamette River—Portland Lumber Mills |
1930; 1938-1939; undated | |
9/30 | Emergency Landing Field
For planes of new airmail service flying to and from
Portland Municipal Airport, Swan Island.
|
circa 1929 | |
9/31 | Willamette River—overlay for Brubaker No.
39207
Includes pencil drawing on overlay showing dredge pipeline
location on Weyerhauser property south of Municipal Terminal 4 and photocopy of
original of the aerial photograph from Organized Lot 980 (Brubaker-Delano
Aerial Photographs), since the original print is not in this collection. The
overlay may post-date the aerial photograph.
|
1939 | |
Box/Folder | |||
9/32 | Willamette River—by the
Oregonian
newspaper.
USS
Augusta passing through Burnside
Bridge.
|
1933 | |
9/33 | Willamette River—by Photo-Art Commercial
Studios
Good views of the river and bridges in central Portland and
one of Swan Island.
|
circa 1955 | |
9/34 | Willamette River—by Spence Air Photos
Oil Basin Docks.
|
circa 1940 | |
9/35 | Willamette River—by B. Thurber
Portland Lumber Mills and Port of Portland Dry Docks.
|
circa 1930; 1934 | |
9/36 | Columbia/Willamette rivers—vertical aerial produced
by unidentified source |
1953 | |
Subseries 2: Businesses and Industrial
Plants
48 photographic
prints : b&w
|
circa 1919-1950 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
9/37 | Commercial Iron Works |
1934 | |
9/38 | Cotton fumigation plant |
circa 1919 | |
Box/Folder | |||
9/39 | 14/3 | Doernbecker Manufacturing Co. |
1934 |
9/40 | H.N. Burpee shop |
1923 | |
9/41 | Iron Fireman Manufacturing Co. |
1934 | |
9/42 | Jantzen Knitting Mills |
1934 | |
9/43 | Libby, McNeil & Libby |
1934 | |
Box/Folder | |||
9/44 | 14/3 | M&M Manufacturing Co. |
1934 |
9/45 | M. Barde & Sons |
1923 | |
9/46 | Oregon City Woolen Mills |
1934 | |
9/47 | Portland Woolen Mills |
1934 | |
Box/Folder | |||
9/48 | 14/3 | Schnitzer Steel Products Co. |
1937 |
9/49 | Willamette Iron & Steel
Snapshots documenting interior of office building,
dismantling a crane, and flooded dock.
|
1950 | |
Subseries 3: Columbia River
6 photographic
prints : b&w
|
1792; 1919-1927 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
9/50 | Mouth—charts [photographic
reproductions]
Admiral Vancouver's Survey, 1792, and U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers charts.
|
1792; 1919-1920 | |
9/51 | South Jetty Extension—drawing [photographic
reproduction]
By U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
|
1920 | |
9/52 | USS
Algonquin and SS
Manhan
|
1927 | |
Subseries 4: Damaged Buildings and
Docks
167 photographic
prints : b&w
1 folder
manuscripts
Various individual instances of damage are organized first
chronologically, followed by the bulk of the subseries, a 1947 Photographic
Harbor Survey, arranged in its original order. This survey includes the photo
inventory, followed by images organized by designated areas of the harbor, and
then a section of industrial plant images, arranged alphabetically. The survey
photographs are numbered, and area photographs have numbers inked at various
locations that indicate closer views of these locations are included.
|
1921-1960; 1921-1947 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
9/53 | Oak Street Dock
Includes steamboats,
Stranger and
Twin Cities.
|
1921-1922 | |
9/54 | Swan Island dock |
1922 March 8 | |
9/55 | Municipal Terminal No. 2 |
1927 | |
9/56 | M.L. Kline building
Faced Front Street (80-86). Photographs show collapse of
harborside wall.
|
1928 February | |
9/57 | McCormick Dock |
1933 Aug. 23 | |
9/58 | Supple's Dock
Shows warehouse interior.
|
1940 May 13 | |
9/59 | Slide damage—locations unidentified |
1959-1960 | |
9/60 | Concrete damage—location unidentified |
undated | |
Photographic Harbor
Survey
The Harbor Survey was conducted by a team led by Harry N.
Starr of the commission staff, and the photographs were made by C.
Sullivan.
|
1947 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
10/1 | Photo inventory and preliminary survey
report
Includes original and carbon copies of the preliminary
report made by Harry N. Starr and the photo-by-photo inventory of the
photographs, in numerical order, with descriptions and property owners as of
January 1, 1947. Some of the 126 numbers had no prints in the original survey;
all except six of the other numbered images are included in this
collection.
|
1947 | |
10/2 | Area Photograph No. 41—east side Willamette, north
of St. Johns Bridge
Includes Grant, Smith, & Porter Co. and Kern &
Gibbs floating marine way.
|
1947 | |
10/3 | Area Photograph No. 45—east side Willamette, south
of St. Johns Bridge
Includes Portland Lumber Mills; Spokane, Portland &
Seattle Railroad property north of SP&S bridge; Star Sand & Gravel Co.;
and West Transfer Co. dock near west end of SP&S bridge.
|
1947 | |
10/4 | Area Photograph No. 110—between Burnside and
Morrison bridges
East side
|
1947 | |
10/5 | Area Photograph No. 111—east side Willamette,
south of Railroad Bridge [SP&S bridge]
Peninsula Lumber Co. and Willamette Tug & Barge
|
1947 | |
10/6 | Area Photograph No. 113—west side Willamette,
SP&S property south of Railroad Bridge [SP&S Bridge] |
1947 | |
10/7 | Area Photograph No. 114—east side Willamette,
south of Ross Island Bridge
Commercial Iron Works, Pacific Building Materials
|
1947 | |
10/8 | Area Photograph No. 115—east side Willamette
between Burnside and Morrison bridges
Identified buildings include General Mills, Northwestern
Ice and Cold Storage Co., and Pacific Fruit & Produce Co.
|
1947 | |
10/9 | Area Photograph No. 116—west side Willamette,
north of Broadway Bridge
Durkee Foods and Pacific Coast Coal.
|
1947 | |
10/10 | Area Photograph No. 117—east and west sides
Willamette in Sellwood Bridge vicinity
East Side Mill and Portland Shipbuilding Corp.
|
1947 | |
10/11 | Area Photograph No. 118—east side Willamette south
of Ross Island Bridge
Ross Island Sand & Gravel Co. and Tait Sand &
Gravel Co.
|
1947 | |
10/12 | Area Photograph No. 119—east side Willamette
between Morrison and Hawthorne bridges
Hawthorne Dock Co., Richfield Oil Co. truck terminal, and
United Grocers.
|
1947 | |
10/13 | Area Photograph No. 120—east side Willamette
between Hawthorne and Morrison bridges
Motor Freight Terminals and Richfield Oil Co. truck
terminal,
|
1947 | |
10/14 | Area Photograph No. 121—east side Willamette
between Morrison and Burnside bridges
Nickum & Kelly and Nye & Samson.
|
1947 | |
10/15 | Area Photograph No. 122—west side Willamette
between Hawthorne and Ross Island bridges
Northwest Electric Co.
|
1947 | |
10/16 | Area Photograph No. 123—east side Willamette
between Hawthorne and Ross Island bridges
Hawthorne Dock Co. and Portland General Electric Co.
|
1947 | |
10/17 | Albina Engine & Machine Works |
1947 | |
10/18 | Christianson Logging Co. |
1947 | |
10/19 | City of Portland Municipal Paving
Plant |
1947 | |
10/20 | Commercial Iron Works [and Alaska Junk
Co.] |
1947 | |
10/21 | General Petroleum [west side Willamette across
from Municipal Terminal No. 4] |
1947 | |
10/22 | Kerr-Gifford Elevator Dock, Swan
Island
Also Union Pacific Railway dock.
|
1947 | |
10/23 | Marine Iron Works [between SP&S and St. Johns
bridges] |
1947 | |
10/24 | Nye & Samson [east end Morrison
Bridge] |
1947 | |
10/25 | Pacific Building Materials |
1947 | |
10/26 | Portland Gas & Coke Co. |
1947 | |
10/27 | Shell Oil Dock |
1947 | |
10/28 | Star Sand & Gravel Co. |
1947 | |
10/29 | West Oregon Lumber Co. [Linnton] |
1947 | |
10/30 | Western Cooperage [east end SP&S
bridge] |
1947 | |
10/31 | Unidentified location |
1947 | |
Subseries 5: Prints Used in
Publications
69 photographic
prints : b&w
Images were used to promote the Northwest region, so it
includes images from Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington, as well as images
of agriculture and industry that are not identified by location. The prints
were removed from backings, leaving glue residue on the reverse, and some are
cut into odd shapes.
The first group is arranged by location, and a second group of
images that are not identified by location are arranged alphabetically by
topic.
|
1931-1937 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
11/1 | Idaho
Includes images of grain harvesting, sheep raising, and two
oblique aerial views of Lewiston.
|
circa 1935 | |
11/2 | Montana—Northern Pacific freight train in
Rockies |
circa 1935 | |
Oregon |
1934-1935 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
11/3 | Bonneville Dam construction |
1934 November-December | |
11/4 | Douglas County—agriculture and timber |
circa 1935 | |
11/5 | Hillcrest Orchards |
circa 1935 | |
11/6 | Hood River Apple Growers' Vinegar
Plant |
circa 1935 | |
11/7 | Marshfield—lumber industry |
circa 1935 | |
11/8 | Medford and vicinity |
circa 1935 | |
11/9 | North Umpqua River—fish catch |
circa 1935 | |
11/10 | Oregon City
View of bridge, with riverboat and barge, possibly
carrying load of folded woolen fabric
|
circa 1935 | |
11/11 | Pacific Highway |
circa 1935; 1937 | |
11/12 | Pendleton and vicinity
Includes grain harvesting and Pendleton Woolen Mills.
|
circa 1935; 1937 | |
11/13 | Portland
Includes Alber Brothers Milling Co., Portland Fish Co.,
Portland Woolen Mills, Sperry Flour Co., Swift & Co. Stockyards and Packing
Plant, and the SS
Tamadong Maru at unidentified
elevator dock.
|
circa 1935 | |
11/14 | Salem and vicinity—cherry growing |
circa 1935 | |
11/15 | Smith Canning Co.
Pasted together with an image of sheep raising.
|
circa 1935 | |
Box/Folder | |||
11/16 | Washington state
Includes view of Merwin Dam on Lewis River and corn field
near Yakima.
|
1931; circa 1935 | |
11/17 | Agriculture
Includes dairying, field crops, fruit growing, grain
harvesting, livestock raising, and food processing plants.
|
circa 1935 | |
11/18 | Industrial Plants and Warehouses
Collins Flour Mills, Consolidated Freight Lines, lumber
mill, paper mill, and unidentified plants.
|
circa 1935 | |
11/19 | River |
circa 1935 | |
Subseries 6: Unclassified or Unidentified
Images
125 photographic
prints : b&w
The first group of unclassified or unidentified images is
alphabetized by topic or location. A second group of prints made at the Oregon
Historical Society from negatives produced by unknown amateur photographer(s)
is organized into those made between 1911 and 1914 and those made circa 1935 to
1939. A third group consists of prints on oversize mounts.
|
1911-1957 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
11/20 | Accident—foot of Fourteenth St.,
Portland |
1937 June 24 | |
11/21 | Equipment
Includes a conveyor system by C.W. Hunt Co. of New York,
dock sweeper manufactured by Casey Tractor Appliances Co. of Portland, a
Mixermobile front-end loader, and unidentified gear-driven assembly.
|
circa 1935; 1953 | |
11/22 | Docks—various and unidentified
Includes SS
President Jackson at Willamette
Iron & Steel dock (1941); loading a locomotive, lumber, and tanks at
various docks, and interior of a warehouse. Some may be Municipal Terminals but
are not identified as such.
|
circa 1935; 1941 July 17 | |
11/23 | Docks—various and
unidentified—construction |
circa 1920; circa 1940 | |
11/24 | Docks—West Coast Terminals
Transition from Oceanic Terminals to West Coast Terminals.
Includes exterior views of the complex and interiors of various pier
warehouses.
|
1947 | |
11/25 | Exhibit—"Theatrical Posters of the Gay
Nineties,"
Photographic reproductions of two examples from a Library of
Congress exhibit, which may have been on display at a Commission or Port
facility.
|
1957 | |
11/26 | Oil Spill—St. Johns Lumber Co. dock |
1921 Aug. 15 | |
11/27 | Portland-Columbia Airport |
ca. 1955 | |
11/28 | Railroad cars—improperly loaded |
1942-1944 | |
11/29 | Work of unidentified photographer (1911-1914)—list
of images |
[1914] | |
11/30 | Work of unidentified photographer
(1911-1914)—Astoria Regatta |
1914 July 4 | |
11/31 | Work of unidentified photographer (1911-1914)—USLHS
Heathers
|
1911 | |
11/32 | Work of unidentified photographer (1911-1914)—USLHS
Manzanita buoy tending
trip |
1914 | |
11/33 | Work of unidentified photographer (1911-1914)—USLHS
Manzanita buoy tending
trip—U.S. Buoy Depot, Astoria, Or. |
1914 | |
11/34 | Work of unidentified photographer
(1911-1914)—Seaside, Or. |
1914 July 5 | |
11/35 | Work of unidentified photographer
(1911-1914)—Seattle and Puget Sound, Wash. |
circa 1914 | |
11/36 | Work of unidentified photographer (circa
1935-1939)
Includes buoy tending, float plane off unidentified dock,
Golden Gate Exposition at San Francisco (1939), Portland Rose Festival Parade,
and Tillamook Rock Lighthouse.
|
circa 1935-1939 | |
Over B-1/1 | Mounted prints
Includes seven selections from what was probably an exhibit
or presentation. Images primarily document Municipal terminals and loading and
unloading cargo.
|
circa 1955 | |
Series K: Dry Docks and
Shipyards
81 photographic
prints : b&w
One group of images primarily documents the construction and
operation of the Portland Municipal Dry Docks, near the Spokane, Portland &
Seattle Railway bridge. Also included are a few photos of the dry docks after
they were sold to the Port of Portland in 1923. A second group of images
documents shipyards at St. Helens on the Columbia River and on Swan Island in
the Willamette River.
The series is organized into two subseries: Dry Docks and
Shipyards.
|
1920-circa 1960 | ||
Subseries 1: Dry Docks
72 photographic
prints : b&w
|
1920-1938 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
11/37 | Albina Engine & Machine Works dry dock [north
Portland]—wind damage |
1921 January | |
11/38 | Portland Municipal Dry
Docks—construction
Documents launching of pontoons.
|
1920 January-September | |
11/39 | Portland Municipal Dry
Docks—construction
Documents launching of pontoons.
|
1920 October-1921 March | |
11/40 | Portland Municipal Dry Docks—Control
House |
1922 | |
11/41 | Portland Municipal Dry Docks—General
views
Includes good views of SP&S Bridge opened and closed.
Includes many ships and boats in dry dock, including unidentified vessel with
swastika on its smokestack. Identified vessels: MS
Dinteldyk, SS
Edgar F. Luckenbach, SS
Hawaiian, and SS
West Jessup.
|
1922-1924; 1938 | |
11/42 | Portland Municipal Dry Docks—ships in dry
docks
Identified vessels: MS
Dinteldyk, SS
Edgar F. Luckenbach(first ship
in completed dry docks), SS
Illinois, SS
Montague, SS
Point Vicente, SS
San Felipe, SS
San Vicente, SS
Yoshida Maru No. 1, and ferry
Tourist No. 3.
|
1921-1922; 1924; 1938 | |
11/43 | Port of Portland Dry Docks (Swan Island)
General views including vessels: SS
Biddle, and SS
Oregon Mail.
|
circa 1950-circa 1960 | |
Subseries 2: Shipyards
9 photographic
prints : b&w
|
circa 1916-circa 1960 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
11/44 | St. Helens Shipbuilding Co. (St. Helens,
Or.)
City of Portland sailing vessel
soon after launch.
|
circa 1916 | |
11/45 | Swan Island—site |
1939 Sept. 22 | |
11/46 | Swan Island—construction |
1941 June 6 | |
11/47 | Swan Island—Kaiser Shipyard
General views including vessels: SS
Oregon Mail
|
1941 |
Subgroup2: Port of Portland, 1920-1997, (bulk 1920-1952) Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Series A: Job Files
3,435 photographic
prints : b&w
The prints are arranged on black album pages with extensive
descriptions of equipment, procedures, and locations in typescript captions.
They document in depth the work of the Port of Portland, primarily in dredging,
filling, and diking, most notably to change the shipping channel from the east
to the west side of Swan Island by deepening the west channel and filling the
east channel to create a causeway connection to the mainland. Images also
document jobs done by Port of Portland dredges for private firms and public
agencies. Included are photographs documenting site preparation and some
construction of the Portland Municipal Airport on Swan Island and extensive
documentation of site preparation for the Portland-Columbia Airport. The latter
includes a particularly interesting group of images that document homes, farms,
and a pickle factory removed from the site. Most were owned by Italian-American
farmers, but a few Japanese-American and Anglo-American farms also are
represented
The folders are arranged numerically by job numbers that were
assigned by the Port. The jobs are generally but not completely
chronological.
|
1920-1937 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
15/1-2 | No. 1001—Oregon Slough—dredge |
1921-1923 | |
15/3 | No. 1002—Mouth of Willamette River—dike |
1920 | |
15/4 | No. 1003—Mouth of Willamette River—widen |
1922 | |
15/5 | No. 1004—Mouth of Willamette River—Gillihan's
Cut |
1921-1922 | |
15/6 | No. 1005—Guild's Lake—North Pacific Terminal Co.
site—fill |
1922 February-May | |
15/7 | No. 1006—West Swan Island Channel—dredge |
1921-1922 | |
15/8 | No. 1007—Peninsula Lumber Co. site—dredge and
fill |
1920; 1922 | |
16/1-2 | No. 1009A-1009E—Morgan's Bar—dike and
widen |
1922; 1925 | |
16/3 | No. 1016—Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation
Co. to Portland Flouring Mills—dredge |
1922 | |
16/4 | No. 1019—West side below Broadway
Bridge—dredge |
1922 | |
16/5 | No. 1020—Municipal Terminal No. 4 to Gillihan's
Cut—dredge 500-ft. channel |
1922 | |
16/6 | No. 1021—Inman-Poulsen Mills—new dock front and
fill |
1922 | |
16/7 | No. 1023—Eastern & Western Lumber Mill—dredge and
fill |
1922 April | |
16/8 | No. 1025—Rock from Fisher's Landing quarry to
dikes |
[1922] | |
16/9 | No. 1026—Broadway Bridge to Irving Dock—dredge and
fill |
1922 June | |
16/10 | No. 1029—Spokane, Portland & Seattle Bridge to
Government Moorings—dredge |
1922 April-May | |
16/11 | No. 1030—Spokane, Portland & Seattle Bridge to
Swan Island—dredge |
1922 May 20 | |
16/12 | No. 1031A-1031C—Linnton Channel—dredge and
fill |
1922 | |
16/13 | No. 1033—Emerson Hardwood Co.—fill |
1922 June | |
16/14 | No. 1034—Municipal Terminal No. 1, Slip No.
1—dredge |
1922 | |
16/15 | No. 1035—Municipal dry docks, cave-in of
bulkhead—dredge |
1922 June 4-5 | |
16/16 | No. 1037—Guild's Lake—Northern Pacific Terminal Co
—tail track fill |
1922 | |
16/17 | No. 1038—Montgomery Shoal—dredge |
1922 May 12 | |
16/18 | No. 1039—Albina Rail Yards—fill |
1922 July | |
16/19 | No. 1040—Morgan's Bar—dredge |
[1922] | |
16/20 | No. 1041—Municipal Terminal No. 4, cold storage plant
site—fill |
[1922] | |
16/21 | No. 1044—Peninsula Lumber Co.—dredge and
fill |
1920-1922 | |
16/22 | No. 1048—Mouth of Willamette River—dredge and
fill |
1922 July-August | |
16/23 | No. 1049—St. Helens Bar |
1920-1921 | |
17/1 | No. 1052—Long-Bell Lumber Co.—dredge
Tualatin test |
1922 Nov. 24 | |
17/2 | No. 1052—Long-Bell Lumber Co.—Columbia River
dike |
1922; 1924 | |
17/3 | No. 1052—Long-Bell Lumber Co.—Cowlitz River
dike |
1922 Dec. 3 | |
17/4 | No. 1052—Long-Bell Lumber Co.—log pond and Cowlitz
River dike |
1922-1923 | |
17/5 | No. 1052—Long-Bell Lumber Co.—Cowlitz River Railway
fill |
1923 April 23 | |
17/6 | No. 1052—Long-Bell Lumber Co.—west side dredge and
fill |
1922-1923 | |
17/7 | No. 1052—Long-Bell Lumber Co.—log pond |
1923 February-March | |
17/8 | No. 1052—Long-Bell Lumber Co.—Northern Pacific tail
track fill |
1923 | |
17/9 | No. 1052—Long-Bell Lumber Co.—material for building
screens |
1923 June | |
17/10 | No. 1052—Long-Bell Lumber Co.—mill site and dock
fronts—dredge and fill |
1923 | |
17/11 | No. 1052—Long-Bell Lumber
Co.—miscellaneous
Includes dredges at work and view of mill and power plant.
|
1924 | |
17/12 | No. 1052—Long-Bell Lumber Co.—submerged
pipeline |
1923 October-December | |
17/13 | No. 1052—Long-Bell Lumber Co.—power plant
construction |
1924 February-April | |
17/14 | No. 1052—Long-Bell Lumber Co.—dredges
Tualatin and
Willamette
|
[1923]-1924 | |
18/1 | No. 1053—Hammond Mill—log raft [cigar type] pulled by
tug
Stella
|
[1922] | |
18/2 | No. 1055—Mouth of Willamette River—removing Coon
Island dike |
1922 August | |
18/3 | No. 1057—Columbia Engineering Works (Linnton,
Or.)—fill |
1922 September-October | |
18/4 | No. 1058—Supple's Channel from Hawthorne
Bridge—dredge |
1922 September | |
18/5 | No. 1059—Municipal Dry Docks and Coal
Dock—fill |
1922 November | |
18/6 | No. 1061—South Portland Harbor—relay dump to
Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation |
1922 Sept. 29 | |
18/7 | No. 1064—Mill Street bulkhead—Ukase fill |
1922-1923 | |
18/8 | No. 1066—Hawthorne Bridge to Morrison Bridge—main
channel |
[1922] | |
18/9 | No. 1066—Shore work for handling materials from South
Portland Harbor on Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation
lands |
1922-1923 | |
18/10 | No. 1067—Rock reef below Spokane, Portland &
Seattle Railway Bridge |
1923; 1925; 1927 | |
18/11 | No. 1070—Municipal dry docks—enrockment and
grading |
1920-1923 | |
18/12 | No. 1071—Above Municipal Terminal No. 4, east
side—dredge and fill
Includes images of Christmas dinner for crew of dredge
Willamette, 1924.
|
1923-1925 | |
18/13 | No. 1073—Survey Rock Reef (Linnton, Or.)—removal and
placement of rock |
1925-1926 | |
18/14 | No. 1074—Swan Island Dike—removal |
1923 February | |
18/15 | No. 1075—Upper Post Office Bar—dredge |
1923-1925 | |
18/16 | No. 1076—Portland Flouring Mill
cut—widening |
1918-1920; 1923 | |
18/17 | No. 1080—Morgan's Bar—dredge |
1923 July-August | |
18/17 | No. 1082—St. Helen's Bar—dredge |
1923 | |
19/1 | No. 1083—Swan Island Mole—dredge and fill |
1926-1927 | |
19/2 | No. 1085—West Swan Island Channel, Landing No. 1—land
clearing, dredge, and fill [Guild's Lake] |
1923-1926 | |
19/3 | No. 1085—West Swan Island Channel, Landing No.
2—dredge and fill [Guild's Lake] |
1924; 1926 | |
19/4 | No. 1085—West Swan Island Channel, Landing No.
3—dredge and fill [Guild's Lake] |
1924-1926 | |
19/5 | No. 1085—West Swan Island Channel, Landing No.
6—dredge and fill [Guild's Lake and Balch Creek] |
1924-1925 | |
19/6 | No. 1085—West Swan Island Channel, Landing No.
8—dredge and fill [Guild's Lake] |
1925-1926 | |
19/7 | No. 1085—West Swan IslandChannel, Landing No. 9—dredge
and fill [Guild's Lake] |
1925-1926; 1928 | |
20/1 | No. 1085—West Swan Island Channel, Landing No. 10—fill
[Bridgeport Drain] |
1928 June | |
20/2 | No. 1085—West Swan Island Channel, Landing No. 12—fill
[Bridgeport Tract] |
1927 June-July | |
20/4 | No. 1085—Roadway East of Northern Pacific Main
Line—fill |
1927 April | |
20/5 | No. 1085—Bridgeport—fill |
1927 | |
20/7 | No. 1085—Guild's Lake, Balch Creek Landing —dredge and
fill |
1924-1925 | |
20/8 | No. 1085—Guild's Lake, Balch Creek Drain
—fill |
1925-1927 | |
20/9 | No. 1085—Guild's Lake—miscellaneous
Includes filling slide on Northern Pacific right-of-way, 1924,
and first trains to occupy Northern Pacific Terminal Co.'s storage track, 1925;
Port of Portland Warehouse No. 1 and boat slip; general views; Brubaker Aerial
Survey views, March 1928; flood, June 1928.
|
1924-1926; 1928 | |
20/10 | No. 1086—SS
West Coyote aground on Post
Office Bar—dredging out |
1923 September | |
20/11 | No. 1087—Lower end of Municipal Terminal No. 4—dredge
and fill |
1923 October-November | |
20/12 | No. 1089—Morgan's Bar Dike—Columbia Contract
Co. |
1923-1924 | |
20/13 | No. 1090—Municipal Terminal No. 1,
slip—dredge |
1923-1924 | |
20/14 | No. 1091—Eastern & Western Lumber Co.—shore
work |
1923 Dec. 13 | |
20/15 | No. 1092—Willamette Iron & Steel Works—shore
work |
1923 December | |
21/1 | No. 1093—Columbia River Shipbuilding
Co.—dredge |
1923-1924 | |
21/2 | No. 1094—Associated Oil Co. reef—rock
removal |
1925 April | |
21/3 | No. 1095—Clark-Wilson Lumber Co. dock front—drain and
fill |
1924 | |
21/4 | No. 1096—Oregon-Washington Railroad &
Navigation—Union Pacific and Northwestern dock—dredge |
[1924] | |
21/5 | No. 1098—Portland Flouring Mills west side of Swan
Island Channel Landing No. 3—fill |
1924 August-September | |
21/6 | No. 1099—Mouth of Willamette River—dredging
shoal |
1924 July | |
21/7 | No. 1102—Municipal Terminal No. 1 to Broadway Bridge,
west side—dredging dock fronts |
1924-1925 | |
21/8 | No. 1108—Municipal Terminal No. 2—dredging dock
front |
1925 March | |
21/9 | No. 1110—Port of Portland Dry Docks—dredging
berth |
1925 August-September | |
21/10 | No. 1111—Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway
dock—dredging shoal |
1925 July | |
21/11 | No. 1112—Upper Post Office Bar—removing wing
dam |
1925 May | |
21/12 | No. 1114—New Ainsworth Dock—fill
Includes good views of Broadway Bridge.
|
1925 April | |
21/13 | No. 1115—Coon Island Light—enrockment |
1925 April | |
21/14 | No. 1116—Lighthouse, mouth of Willamette
River—enrockment |
1925 April | |
21/15 | No. 1117—East Swan Island Channel—dredge |
1925 June | |
21/16 | No. 1119—Balch Creek Drain—construction |
1925 | |
21/17 | No. 1120—Sperry Mills to Northwest Grain Dock—harbor
channel development |
1925 November | |
21/18 | No. 1122—Mouth of Willamette River—maintenance
dredging |
1920-1921; 1925 | |
21/19 | No. 1124—Channel at Gillihan's Bar—maintenance
dredging |
1925 September | |
21/20 | No. 1125—West side below West Oregon Lumber Co. to
Multnomah Channel—widening |
1925 | |
21/21 | No. 1126—Supple's Dock—deepening slip |
1925 August | |
21/22 | No. 1127—Union Oil Co. land—fill |
1926 January-February | |
21/23 | No. 1128—Northern Pacific Railway Crossing No. 8 to
river through Kittredge Lake—building drain |
1926 January | |
22/1 | No. 1129—Kerr-Gifford Albina Dock—dredging and
bulkheading |
1925 | |
22/2 | No. 1131—Post Office Bar, east side below Post Office
Range—widening channel |
1925-1926 | |
22/3 | No. 1132—SS
Hannawa aground below Vancouver,
Wash.—dredging to release |
1925 December | |
22/4 | No. 1133—Shanghai Building Co. dock front—clamshell
dredging |
1926 February | |
22/5 | No. 1135—Swan Island—spillway |
1926 September | |
22/6 | No. 1135—Swan Island Mole—shore work, trestles,
bulkheads, riprap, etc. |
1926-1928 | |
22/7 | No. 1135—Swan Island—causeway |
1928 | |
22/8 | No. 1136—Bridgeport Drain |
1926 | |
22/9 | No. 11382—SS
Julia Luckenbach aground at
Kalama, Wash.—dredging to release |
1926 July 19 | |
22/10 | No. 1139—Post Office Bar, west side—channel
widening |
1929-1930 | |
22/11 | No. 1141—Bridgeport Dock—removing old boulder
pile |
1926 December | |
22/12 | No. 1145—Star Sand Co. dock front—removing outer part
rock reef |
1926 December | |
22/13 | No. 1142—Above Hawthorne Bridge—dredge |
1926 | |
22/14 | No. 1146—Guild's Lake District, trestle line east side
North Pacific tracks—fill |
1926 | |
22/15 | No. 1150—Swan Island, Portland Municipal
Airport—seeding, preliminary work and hangars |
1927 | |
23/1 | No. 1152—Oregon Terminal Co.—dredge and shore
work |
1927 May-August | |
23/2 | No. 1153—Swan Island, Portland Municipal Airport—shore
work, culverts, and sewer extension on causeway |
1927 | |
23/3 | No. 1159—Mouth of Willamette River—maintenance
dredging |
1927 | |
23/4 | No. 1160—Hayden Island Amusement Co.—dredge and shore
work |
1927 December | |
23/5 | No. 1161—Bridgeport frontage—test wells and dry
docks |
1928 | |
23/6 | No. 1162—Swan Island, Portland Municipal
Airport—roadway construction |
1928 | |
23/7 | No. 1163—Bridgeport to Swan Island—laying,
maintaining, removing submerged line |
1928 | |
23/8 | No. 1165—Columbia Slough—blasting snags |
1927-1930 | |
23/9 | No. 1167—Mouth of Columbia Slough—dredge |
1928 | |
23/10 | No. 1171—Joint Oil Tanker Basin—dredging waterfront
lands for |
[1928] | |
23/11 | No. 1175—Koster Products Co.
mooring—dredge |
1929 March | |
23/12 | No. 1177—Columbia Slough—clamshell
dredging |
[1929] | |
23/13 | No. 1178—Columbia Slough—dredging and shore work
charged to [Multnomah] county |
[1929] | |
23/14 | No. 1179—Lower harbor, Broadway Bridge to Portland
Municipal Airport (Swan Island)—dredge and fill |
1930 | |
23/15 | No. 1181—Columbia Slough Bridge (City of
Portland)—bridge expansion and channel dredging |
1929 | |
24/1 | No. 1183—Mouth of Willamette River—dredge and
fill |
1929-1930 | |
24/2 | No. 1184—Multnomah County road bed—dredge |
1929 | |
24/3 | No. 1186—Crown Willamette Paper Co. (Camas,
Wash.)—dredge and fill |
[1929] | |
24/4 | No. 1187—Portland Flouring Mills—shore
work |
1929 | |
24/5 | No. 1190—Eastern & Western and Dock Commission
slip—dredge |
1929 December | |
24/6 | No. 1191—Post Office Bar—spillway
construction |
1929 November | |
24/7 | No. 1193—Sunset Pacific Oil Dock—dredge |
1929 December | |
24/8 | No. 1194—Inman-Poulsen Lumber Co.
dock—dredge |
1929 November | |
24/9 | No. 1196—Lower harbor, new St. Johns bridge and
Municipal Terminal No. 4, east side—dredge |
1930 April | |
24/10 | No. 1206—Mouth of Willamette River, outside and inside
ranges—maintenance dredging |
1930 | |
24/11 | No. 1207—North Front Street improvement under contract
with Parker-Schramm Co.—dredge and fill |
1930 August | |
24/12 | No. 1212—Pillar Rock (Wash.)—dredge
Columbia operating under least
to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
1931 July | |
24/13 | No. 1214-1215—Sand Island—dredge
Columbia
|
1932 | |
24/14 | No. 1216—Multnomah County road, East St. Johns to
Swift Boulevard.—making fill |
1933 | |
24/15 | No. 1226—Port of Portland Dry Docks, Berths No. 1 and
2—dredge and fill |
1933 | |
24/16 | No. 1227—Gas Co. dock—dredge and fill |
1933 March | |
24/17 | No. 1228—Airport Dock (Swan Island)—dredging to
restore depth |
1933 April | |
24/18 | No. 1232—Harrington Point channel—dredge
Clackamas leased to tacoma
Dredging Co. |
1933-1934 | |
25/1 | No. 1235—Mooring Basin back of Pier No. 1—dredge [
Clackamas] |
1934 Oct. 4 | |
25/2 | No. 1237—Supple's Dock—dredge [
Clackamas] |
1934 December | |
25/3 | No. 1241—Clark-Wilson Lumber Co.—fill and bulkhead
failure [dredge
Clackamas] |
1936 October | |
25/4 | No. 1241—Morgan's Bar— spillway and dredge [
Clackamas] |
1936 August-October | |
25/5 | No. 1241—Schnabel's Farm (Post Office Range)—
fill |
1936 September | |
25/6 | No. 1241—Texaco Oil Dock— Mock's Bottom
spillway |
1936 October | |
25/7 | No. 1241—West Oregon Lumber Co.— fill [dredge
Clackamas] |
1936 July-September | |
25/8 | No. 2007—Dredge
Portland— wrecked |
1922 October-November | |
25/9 | No. 2014—Dredge
Clackamas— construction (30-inch
diesel electric) |
1924-1925 | |
25/10 | No. 2198—S.E.R.A. [State Emergency Relief
Administration] Projects |
1934 June | |
26/1 | No. 2203—Port of Portland Dry Docks—bulkhead
construction [S.E.R.A. project]
Also includes four images of preparing mooring at Pier No. 1
(1931).
|
1931; 1934 | |
Portland-Columbia Airport site [north side of Portland
International Airport site, 2004] |
1936-1937 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
26/2 | No. 2220-1100—Diversion culvert, McBride's
Slough
Also includes four images of preparing mooring at Pier No. 1
(1931).
|
1936 | |
26/3 | No. 2220-1200—Clearing drain, Culley Road
culvert |
1936 July 25 | |
26/4 | No. 2220-1300—Digging boundary ditches |
1936-1937 | |
26/5 | No. 2220-1400—Ditches No. 5-7 |
1936 | |
26/6 | No. 2222-1500—McBride's Slough spillway |
1936-1937 | |
26/7 | No. 2222-1600—Field buildings |
1936 June | |
26/8 | No. 2222-1700—Dike trestle line |
1936 | |
26/9 | No. 2222-1800—Dredge pipeline |
1936 | |
26/10 | No. 2222-1900—Clearing site |
1936 | |
26/11 | No. 2222-2200—Excavation |
1936 July-September | |
26/12 | No. 2222-2300—Fencing |
1936 Oct. 23 | |
26/13 | No. 2222-2400—West trestle/pipeline |
1936 June-August | |
26/14 | No. 2222-2500—Building removal
Included Garbarino and Guisto farms in Elwood Tract;
Gilbert, Herman Nelson (including Japanese renter's home and greenhouse), and
Schaffer houses and farms in Alderwood Garden Tracts; Freedman, Matsakawa,
Pastorino, and Rosellini houses and farms in Elrod Tract; unidentified places
in Ash Grove Addition; and extensive documentation of the Columbia Pickle
Plant, home and other buildings on Tony Fazio place in Elrod Tract;
|
1936 | |
27/1 | No. 2222-2700, 2800—Dredge fill |
1936-1937 | |
27/2 | No. 2222-3100—Miscellaneous small jobs
Includes burning of barn used as warehouse, tower used for
pulling trestle posts from dike fill, and American flag on temporary pole at
intersection of future runways.
|
1936-1937 | |
27/3 | No. 2222-3400—Miscellaneous small jobs
Includes pumping dredge seepage water, work on McBride's
Slough through Alderwood Golf Course, and building drain from pickle factory to
west boundary ditch.
|
1936-1937 | |
27/4 | No. 2222-3600—Grading for pemanent
buildings |
1936 Aug. 21 | |
Box/Folder | |||
27/5 | [no number]—Port of Portland Dry Dock—surfacing
parking area |
1934 | |
Series B: Subject Files
1,570 photographic
prints : b&w
Subjects reflect Port of Portland functions, with particular
emphasis on dredges, dredging equipment, and dredging and filling projects.
Some images relate to or duplicate those in Job Files. Various maritime vessels
are pictured, including vessels in Port of Portland Dry Docks.
Folders are arranged alphabetically by topic.
|
1920-1938 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
27/6 | Barges and scows
Includes Port of Portland's water and oil barges that served
its dredges, Anchor Barge No. 1, Utility Pipe Barge No. 4, Steam Donkey Scow
No. 7, Electric Booster Scow No. 2, and Barges No. 4, No. 17, and No. 26.
|
1928; 1930; 1934 | |
27/7 | Barges and scows —Grant drill scow |
1926 September | |
Boats and Ships |
1920-1938 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
27/8 | Port of Portland
Identified vessels: Bar tug
Wallula; dredge
Columbia; dredge tender launches
Astoria,
Chinook,
Esther,
Gladys B ,
John McCracken,
Lloyd B,
Marie,
Modoc,
Wanderer,
Wenonah; and steamboats
Portland,
Pronto,
West Nivaria
|
1920; 1923-1926; 1930 | |
27/9 | In Port of Portland Dry Docks
Identified vessel: SS
Charles R. McCormick, SS
Dinteldyk, SS
Edgar F. Luckenbach, SS
Lewis Luckenbach, SS
Ryoch Maru Dairen, SS
Welsh Prince, and SS
Yoshida-Maru.
|
1924-1925 | |
27/10 | In Port of Portland Dry Docks—Steamer
Portland
|
1934 August-September | |
27/11 | In Port of Portland Dry Docks—SS
Yoshida-Maru
|
1925 April | |
27/12 | Steamboat
Claire (enroute Ross Island
Bridge to Hawthorne Bridge) |
1933 January | |
27/13 | SS
Evanger
|
1926 Dec. 4 | |
28/1 | SS
F.J. Luckenbach
|
1926 Dec. 6 | |
28/2 | MS
Feltre—sunk after collision with SS
Edgar Luckenbach
|
1927 February | |
28/3 | MS
Geisha
|
1926 Dec. 7 | |
28/4 | SS
Ibukisan Maru
|
[1925] | |
28/5 | Columbia River bar pilot boat
King & Winge (renamed
Columbia) |
[1925] | |
28/6 | SS
La Parisima, aground, mouth of
Willamette River |
1922 July 28 | |
28/7 | Riverboat
Navajo at Stockton,
Calif. |
[1925] | |
28/8 | USS
Oregon
Entering Portland harbor, which was to be her permanent home
(1925) and proposed mooring at foot of Jefferson Street (1933).
|
1925, 1933 | |
28/9 | SS
Sea Thrush—sinking |
1932 December-1933 January | |
28/10 | SS
Stensby—aground at Sand
Island |
1933 Aug. 6 | |
28/11 | SS
Susquehana—aground on Willow
Bar |
1923 April 4 | |
28/12 | SS
West Nivara—aground at mouth
of Willamette River |
1920 Aug. 12 | |
28/13 | SS
Western Cross—aground on
Morgan's Bar |
1920 September | |
28/14 | Tugboats
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tug
George Mandel and ocean-going
tug
John R. Williams.
|
1923; 1927 | |
28/15 | Miscellaneous
Identified vessel: SS
Harvard, SS
Dinteldyk, SS
Kasna Maru, SS
Panama, SS
Peter Kerr, SS
Swift Scout, SS
West Orowa, SS
Yale, and SS
Yncaren; steamboat
Lewiston; boats
Alki,
Klondike,
Ralph Newcomb, and
Texaco; and launch
Captor.
|
1921; 1924-[1925] | |
Box/Folder | |||
28/16 | Bonneville Dam |
1934-1938 | |
28/17 | Bridges—Burnside and Ross Island |
1925; [1928] | |
28/18 | Bulkheads |
[1922] | |
28/19 | Cables, submarine—landing on draw piers of Spokane,
Portland & Seattle Railway bridge |
[1930] | |
28/20 | Columbia River—entrance and jetty
Includes Brubaker Aerial Survey view (1929)
|
[1929]; 1932 | |
28/21 | Denny Hill Regrade [Seattle, Wash.] |
[1930] | |
28/22 | Dike near mouth of Sandy River [Oregon State Fish and
Game Commission] |
[1930] | |
28/23 | Debris—sticks and other materials taken out of dredge
pumps |
1920 | |
28/24 | Diver—Fred de Rock retrieving cutter lost from Dredge
Columbia
|
1922 May 16 | |
28/25 | Docks—California [Bay Point and Stockton] |
[1925] | |
28/26 | Docks—Municipal Terminal No. 4 |
1920-1921 | |
Dredges |
1920-1934 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
29/1 | Clamshells
Includes
Santiam after fire (1929) and
clamshell working on Sacramento River (Calif.)
|
[1925]; 1929 Feb. 4 | |
29/2 |
Col. P.S. Michie (U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers) |
[1925] | |
29/3 |
Columbia
Includes launching party, working views, and interior
views.
|
1921-1924; [1925] | |
29/4 |
Coos Bay |
[1925] | |
29/5 |
Dixie [Oakland, Calif.]
|
[1930] | |
29/6 |
Hindes [owned by San Francisco
Bridge Co.] |
[1930] | |
29/7 |
Los Angeles [owned by United
Dredge Co., San Pedro, Calif.] |
[1930] | |
29/8 | Miscellaneous
Includes Dredge
Umpqua at Port of Portland Dry
Docks, Murphy Timber Co. dredge, and engines manufactured by United Dredge.
|
1923; 1934 | |
29/9 |
Missouri [and
Kentuckyowned by Long-Bell
Lumber Co.] |
1924 | |
29/10 |
Morris [engine
room] |
[1930] | |
29/12 |
New Jersey [in Chicago River,
Ill.] |
[1930] | |
29/13 |
Olympia [at Astoria, Or. Owned
by Oregon Dredging Co.] |
[1930] | |
29/14 | Portland
Views at Prescott Mill, dredging at Upper Martin Island Bar
and in Columbia Slough, and its remains being burned.
|
1921-1922; 1929 | |
29/15 |
Shuniah [Welland River,
Canada] |
1924 | |
29/16 |
Texas [owned by Long-Bell
Lumber Co.] |
[1925] | |
30/1 |
Tualatin [owned by Port of
Portland]
Views include dredging in many areas of Portland harbor,
distant views, close-up views of engine room and equipment, enroute to Oakland,
Calif., for delivery to new owers, Hydraulic Dredging Co., and dredging at
Point Edith, Suisun Bay, Calif.
|
1920-1925; 1930 | |
30/2 |
Titan [at Associated Oil Co.
reef. Owned by Pacific Bridge Co.] |
1924 August | |
30/3 | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers [owned or leased]
Identified dredges and tenders:
Clatsop,
Multnomah,
San Joaquin,
Whakiakum, and dredge tenders
Adamsand
Post.
|
[1920]; 1923; 1925; [1930] | |
30/4 |
Washington [owned by Port of
Grays Harbor, Wash.] |
1924 | |
30/5 |
Willamette [owned by Port of
Portland]
Views include close-ups of equipment and engine room,
distant views, in dry dock, dredging in Portland harbor, and its sinking in
Willamette River (March 1921), raising, and repair in dry dock.
|
1921; 1924-1925 | |
Dredging and Filling Equipment |
1920-1934 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
30/6 | Buckets
Includes bucket makes and types: grapple, Jeffries, Jeffery,
Stockton, Wakefield, and Williams. Views of dredge
Kansas [Port of Portland].
|
1925-1927 | |
30/7 | Conveyors—fuel
Includes views of dredges
Columbia ,
Tualatin, and
Willamette.
|
1920; [1925] | |
30/8 | Hydrants
Includes views of dredges
Columbia and
Tualatin.
|
1925 March-April | |
30/9 | Ladders
Includes views of dredges
Columbia ,
Tualatin, and
Willamette.
|
1920-1921 | |
30/10 | Nozzles—tests
Includes views of dredges
Portland ,
Tualatin, and
Willamette.
|
1920-1921 | |
30/11 | Pipe—shore (30-inch) |
1925-1926; 1934 | |
30/12 | Pipe—shore—manufacture [by Coast Culvert & Flume
Co.] |
1925-1926; 1934 | |
31/1 | Pipe—floating |
1920; 1923-1926 | |
31/2 | Pipeline—velocity testing |
1920 | |
31/3 | Pumps |
[1925] | |
31/4 | Sleeves |
1921; 1931; 1934 | |
31/5 | Spuds |
1921; 1933; 1933 | |
31/6 | Switches and Y's |
1931 | |
31/7 | Tractor [Fordson crawler] |
1925-1926 | |
Dredging Projects |
1920-1933 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
31/8 | Clackamas Rapids—Dredge
Missouri
|
1933 | |
31/9 | Clark-Wilson Lumber Co.—Dredge
Portland
|
1920 September | |
31/10 | Fales Bar—Dredges
Portland and
Willamette
|
1920-1921 | |
31/11 | Henrici Bar—Dredges
Tualatin and
Willamette
|
1920-1921 | |
31/12 | Inman-Poulsen Lumber Mill—Dredge
Tualatin
|
1920 | |
31/13 | Morgan's Bar—Dredge
Tualatin
|
1920 | |
31/14 | Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Albina
fill—Dredges
Columbia,
Tualatin , and
Willamette
|
1920 | |
31/15 | Peninsula Lumber Mill—Dredge
Willamette
|
1920-1922 | |
31/16 | Portland Harbor, south—Dredge
Tualatin
|
1920 | |
31/17 | Ross Island Relay—Dredge
Portland,
Tualatin , and
Willamette
|
1920-1921 | |
31/18 | Vegetable Oil Mills fill—Dredges
Columbia and
Portland
|
1921-1922 | |
31/19 | Willamette River, upper—clamshell |
1929 | |
31/20 | Willow Bar—Dredge
Willamette
|
1920 | |
31/21 | Various locations
Includes Coon Island Light erosion, grading for Coos Bay
Jetty, frozen Willamette River (1924), and dredge
Willamette.
|
1924-1925 | |
31/22 | Spillways
Includes spillways connecting Piercy Slough to Columbia
Slough, on Sauvie Island, the Gilbert River, and the Kitteridge Drain.
|
1929-1930 | |
31/23 | Test borings |
1933 | |
Dry Docks
The Port of Portland's Dry Docks on the east side of the
Willamette River at St. Johns were originally built in 1920-1921 as the
Portland Municipal Dry Docks by the Dock Commission and sold to the Port a few
years later. Images cover the period of both ownerships and in some cases
duplicate prints in Box 11/38-42.
|
1920-1934 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
32/1 | Construction |
1920-1921 | |
32/2 | Views of pontoons and grounds [and engine
room]
Identified vessels in dry docks include: Dredges
Clatsop,
Portland, and
Willamette, and SS
Niels Nielson.
|
1922; 1926 | |
32/3 | Pattern house wrecked by SS
La Purisima
|
1922 | |
32/4 | Repairs |
1922 | |
32/5 | New Pier No. 1 |
1934 | |
32/6 | Riprap |
1934 | |
32/7 | Warehouse |
1934 | |
Other Images |
1920-1934 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
32/8 | Fire at Oceanic Terminal |
1934 Oct. 19 | |
32/9 | Fisher Quarry—riprap for Portland-Columbia Airport
site |
1934 | |
32/10 | High water on Columbia and Willamette rivers
[oblique aerial views]
Aerials are by C.S. Woodruff. Locations identified: Columbia
River bridges, Hayden Island, Morrison Bridge, Mountain View Diary Ranch, St.
Helens (McCormick Lumber Co. mill, St. Helens Creosote Plant), Sauvie Island,
St. Johns (Municipal Terminal No. 4), Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway
bridge, Swan Island, Vancouver, Wash. vicinity, West Oregon Lumber Co. mill,
and Willamette mouth
|
1921 June | |
32/11 | High water on Willamette River [oblique aerial
view]
Shows Municipal Terminal No. 4 and dike on Weyerhaeuser
property.
|
1925 February | |
32/12 | High water on Willamette River
Includes Mock's Bottom and Port of Portland Warehouse No. 1
(foot of Sherlock Avenue).
|
1927 June | |
32/13 | High water on Columbia and Willamette
rivers
Includes Cieloa farm, Clark-Wilson Lumber Co. mill, Columbia
Slough, Howell Ranch, Jantzen Beach, Morgan's Ranch, Portland Yacht Club, St.
Johns Bridge, Sauvie Island, Swift's plant (north Portland), Vancouver (Wash.)
Airport,
|
1933 June | |
33/1 | Motor repair in San Francisco |
circa 1925 | |
33/2 | Oil Tanker Basin |
circa 1930 | |
33/3 | Pile driver—Jacobsen Construction Co. |
[1922]; 1924 | |
33/4 | Portland—oblique aerial views
Photographs by Brubaker Aerial Surveys and Arthur M.
Prentiss. Includes view of Forestry Building in close proximity to the
Montgomery Ward building on Northwest Thurman Street and the Pacific
International Livestock Exposition complex.
|
[1925]; 1929 | |
33/5 | Portland harbor—oblique aerial views
Photographs by Angelus Studio and Brubaker Aerial Surveys.
Many have extensive descriptions, including areas to be filled for the City of
Portland's proposed sea wall on the central harbor. Good views of the
Willamette River bridges, including the newly completed Burnside Bridge.
Identified locations include: Eastern & Western Lumber Co. mill, Hardtack
Island, Long Island, Ross Island, Sellwood District, Vegetable Oil Mills plant,
and Westmoreland District. Identified vessels: Dredge
Tualatin, and USS
Houston
|
1924-1934 | |
33/6 | Portland harbor—views
Identified vessel: sailing ship,
Monongahela.
|
1920-1921 | |
33/7 | Portland Yacht Club, Yacht Harbor, and Other
Moorages
Includes boat houses and old club house at Yacht Club on the
Columbia River. Also includes views of boat houses at the foot of Jefferston
Street, Phil Jackson Boat House, Portland Rowing Club, Riverwood Moorage,
Webber Moorage, as well as the yacht harbor in San Francisco, Calif. Identified
boat:
Elusae.
|
1921; [1930]; 1934 | |
33/8 | Warehouse No. 1—Port of Portland [heavy
snow] |
1929 Feb. 7 | |
Series C: Other Unclassified Images and
Albums
689 photographic
prints : b&w
25 photographic
prints : col.
1 photomechanical
print : col.
113 photographic prints
in 3 albums : b&w & color
14 photomechanical prints
in 1 album : b&w
1 folder
manuscripts
Some prints with negative numbers inked on them or printed in
them were not assembled onto album pages but relate to the Port Job Files (see
Series A) and Port Subject Files (see Series B). There are also a quantity of
unnumbered prints, mounted prints, and prints in albums.
The series is arranged into the following five subseries:
Numbered Images Related to Port Job Files, Numbered Images by Port Subject File
Headings, Unnumbered Images, Albums, and Mounted Prints.
|
1922-1997; 1922-1952 | ||
Subseries 1: Numbered Images Related to Port
Job Files
13 photographic
prints : col.
1 folder
manuscripts
|
1922-1936 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
12/1 | Job. No. 1032—Harrington Channel |
1934 April 22 | |
12/2 | Job. No. 1052—Long-Bell Lumber Co.—Cowlitz
Landings |
[1923] | |
12/3 | Job. No. 1052—Long-Bell Lumber Co.—proposed dredging
remaining
Typescript list [2 pages] of "Proposed dredging at Longview
remaining to be done by The Port of Portland Dredges."
|
1923 Aug. 25 | |
12/4 | Job. No. 1059—Municipal Dry Docks and Coal
Dock |
1922 | |
12/5 | Job. No. 1116—Lighthouse, mouth of Willamette
River |
1925 April | |
12/6 | Job. No. 2222—Portland-Columbia Airport |
1936 | |
Subseries 2: Numbered Images by Port Subject
File Headings
131 photographic
prints : b&w
|
1923-1938 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
12/7 | Boats and Ships—fishing boat
Wenonah
|
1923 | |
12/8 | Boats and Ships—tugboats
Identified tugboats:
John McCracken and
Oneonta.
|
1923; 1935 | |
12/9 | Bulkheads |
[1925]; [1935] | |
12/10 | Docks—Muncipal Terminal No. 4 |
[1936] | |
12/11 | Dredges
Identified dredges:
Clackamas,
Columbia, and
Texas.
|
1924-1925; 1935; 1937 | |
12/12 | Dredging Equipment |
[1934]-1938 | |
12/13 | Dredging Equipment—pipeline—floating |
1935; 1937 | |
12/14 | Dredging Equipment—pipeline—shore
Includes work at Municipal Terminal No. 4 and other
unidentified locations
|
[1926]; 1935 | |
12/15 | Dredging Equipment—spuds |
1937 Feb. 18 | |
12/16 | Dredging [and filling]—unidentified
locations |
1935; 1937 | |
12/17 | Dredging [and filling]—Union Oil Co. dock and
vicinity |
[1936] | |
12/18 | Dry Docks |
1933; 1937 | |
12/19 | Enrockment |
[1935]; 1937 | |
Subseries 3: Unnumbered Images
543 photographic
prints : b&w
23 photographic
prints : col.
1 photomechanical
print : col.
The prints were arranged using Port Subject File headings, in
alphabetical order.
|
1932-1997; 1932-1954 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
12/20 | Boats and Ships—steamboat models
Models of
Daisy Ainsworth,
Harvest Queen, and
R.R. Thompson.
|
undated | |
12/21 | Boats and Ships—SS
George M. Livanos
|
circa 1940 | |
12/22 | Boats and Ships—work boat [Port of
Portland] |
circa 1950 | |
12/23 | Bridges—brushing project [unidentified
bridge] |
1941 February | |
12/24 | Bridges—Mercer Island floating bridge (Seattle,
Wash.) |
ca. 1945 | |
12/25 | Bulkheads |
circa 1940 | |
12/26 | Columbia River—South Jetty |
1932 April 12 | |
12/27 | Docks—damaged |
circa 1940 | |
12/28 | Docks—Municipal Terminal No. 4 |
1941; 1949; circa 1975; | |
12/29 | Docks—on-dock intermodal yard [container
terminal]
Reproduction of artist's color rendering.
|
circa 1970 | |
34/9 | Docks—Port of Portland terminals [color]
Includes Terminal 4, most notably the grain elevators and
loading logs.
|
circa 1975 | |
12/30 | Dredges—
Clackamas
|
1940-1941; 1948; 1951; undated | |
12/31 | Dredges—
Clackamas—making fill for
Interstate 80 at Bridal Veil |
1948 May-June | |
34/8 | Dredges—
Oregon [color] |
circa 1975 | |
12/32 | Dredges—unidentified |
1967; undated | |
12/33 | Dredging equipment
Includes pumps, switches, Y's, and other equipment and pipe
hauling by St. Johns Motor Express Co.
|
1935; 1948; 1950; undated | |
12/34 | Dredging equipment—pipelines—floating |
1941; 1949; 1951 | |
12/35 | Dredging equipment—pipelines—shore |
1935; 1948; 1950; undated | |
12/36 | Dredging equipment—pipelines—shore |
ca. 1940 | |
12/37 | Dredging equipment—pipelines—shore |
ca. 1950 | |
12/38 | Dredging equipment—tractors |
1947 August; Undated | |
13/1 | Dredging and filling |
1939-1940; 1947-1949; Undated | |
13/2 | Dredging and filling—laying shore
pipelines |
1938; 1948-1949; Undated | |
13/3 | Dredging and filling—Portland Gas & Coke Co.
(Linnton, Or.) |
1940-1941 | |
13/4 | Dredging and filling—project |
1938 June-July | |
13/5 | Dry Docks—Port of Portland
Includes tenders and tugboats on the ways and one wider
view. Identified vessels: Dredge tender
Modoc and clamshell dredge
Co. P.S. Mischie.
|
1939; 1948; Undated | |
13/6 | Dry Docks—Port of Portland—construction |
1951 | |
13/7 | Dry Docks—Port of Portland—construction |
1952-1953 | |
13/8 | Dry Docks—Port of Portland—construction |
[1952]; undated | |
13/9 | Dry Docks—Port of Portland—self-docking of
YFD-69 |
1954 August | |
34/6 | Dry Docks—Port of Portland [color] |
circa 1975 | |
13/10 | Enrockment projects |
ca. 1940; undated | |
13/11 | Floods—Columbia River |
1948 June-July | |
13/12 | Floods—Willamette River |
1948 June-July | |
13/13 | Floods—[possibly Benson State Park] |
1948 December | |
13/14 | Fort Peck Dam (Mt.)—dredging |
1934 October | |
13/15 | KGW Radio—transmitter site [North
Portland]
Site leased from Port of Portland.
|
circa 1950 | |
13/16 | Landslide—central Portland harbor, west
side |
1938 June-August | |
13/17 | Landslide—unidentified location |
1951 May 4 | |
13/18 | Oil sump—burning |
1946 May 25 | |
34/7 | Portland International Airport [color] |
circa 1975 | |
13/19 | Rivergate Industrial District |
circa 1945 | |
13/20 | Seaplane hangar |
1941 September | |
13/21 | Swan Island |
1948-1949; undated | |
13/22 | Tests—unloading container |
circa 1950; undated | |
13/23 | Troutdale (Or.)—properties
Barns and other farm buildings on Commonwealth farm, Sheldon
property, and old Sun Dial farm.
|
1936 Feb. 24 | |
Subseries 4: Albums
113 photographic prints
in 3 albums : b&w & col.
14 photomechanical
prints in 1 album : b&w
|
1952-1997 | ||
Box/Folder | Box/Folder | ||
33/9-11 | 34/1-3 | Album 10-3 —Port of Portland Dry Docks (Swan
Island)—construction of new pier
Album of 8-inch by 10-inch prints on black album pages. (The
album was disassembled for preservation.) Two are color prints; the remainder
are black and white. Most album pages have typescript labels providing precise
dates and descriptive information. Some prints had been removed before the
album came to the Oregon Historical Society, but the pages have been retained
for the information on the labels. More images of construction can be found in
Box 13, Folders 7 and 8.
|
1952 |
13/24 | Album 10-4 —Port of Portland Equipment [portfolio
with photomechanical prints]
Includes views of terminals and warehouses. Shows bulk
outloader, carriers, cranes, derrick, forklifts, and unloading tower,
|
circa 1965 | |
34/4-5 | Album 10-5 —Port of Portland Facilities and
Services
Album assembled on boards, probably for a presentation
binder [disassembled for preservation]. Two images had been trimmed from the
pages before they came to the Oregon Historical Society. The pages include
5-inch by 7-inch black-and-white photographic prints, many with hand-inked
captions. The images show Port of Portland facilities, most notably Terminal
No. 4; Portland harbor scenes and bridges; and ships. Identified vessels: MS
Atlantic Hero,
Satya Kailash, SS
Hawaiian Citizen,
Olynthia (including interior
views), and Matson Line container ship.
|
circa 1975 | |
13/25-27 | Album 10-6 —Municipal Terminal 4, Pier 1
Removed from vinyl ringbinder for preservation. Full title:
"Port of Portland, Oregon: The Historical and Architectural Documentation of
Pier 1, Terminal 4—Photographs," prepared for the Port by Donovan and
Associates of Hood River, Oregon. Includes descriptive index to photographs,
which are organized into general views, exterior views of warehouses and pier,
and interior details of warehouses. The full report is available at the Port of
Portland.
|
1997 June | |
Subseries 5: Mounted Prints
2 photographic
prints : b&w
2 photographic
prints : col.
|
circa 1970-circa 1975 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
Over B-1/2 | Barge [color] |
circa 1970 | |
Over B-1/3 | Dredge
Portland
|
circa 1970 | |
Over B-1/2 | Portland International Airport [color]
Includes terminal, Hughes Airwest plane, and small
planes.
|
circa 1970 | |
Over B-1/2 | Sternwheel tugboat
Portland [color] |
ca. 1970 | |
13/28 | Terminal
Identified vessel: MS
Paralla
|
circa 1975 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Docks--Oregon--Portland.
- Dredges--Oregon--Portland.
- Dry docks--Oregon--Portland.
- Floods--Oregon--Portland.
- Harbors--Oregon--Portland.
- Marine Terminals--Oregon--Portland.
- Shipping--Oregon--Portland.
- Ships.
Corporate Names
- Port of Portland (Or.)
- Pacific Coast Association of Port Authorities.
- Portland (Or.). Commission of Public Docks.
Geographical Names
- Columbia River (Or. and Wash.)
- Willamette River (Or.)
Form or Genre Terms
- Negatives
- Photograph albums
- Photographic prints
Other Creators
-
Corporate Names
- Angelus Studio (Portland, Or.) (photographer)
- Brubaker Aerial Surveys (Portland, Or.) (photographer)