Port of Portland/Commission of Public Docks Photographs Collection

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

3,138 photographic prints : b&w

4 photomechanical prints : col.

18 folders manuscripts

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.

The sub-group is arranged into 11 series, as identified in the commission's original numbering system. Series A is an index to the numbered photographs and printing plates made from them for publications.

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
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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

5,694 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

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		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
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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

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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)

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