Archives West Finding Aid

This collection of 14 snapshots by an unidentified photographer (possibly from Washington state) gives a brief tourist-eye-view of a visit to the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition and Oriental Fair in Portland, Oregon, in 1905. The photographs primarily depict buildings at the exposition. Places shown include the Oriental Building; the Forestry Building; the Oregon Building; the bridge across Guild's Lake; the Government Building; the Agricultural Building; the Washington Building; the midway, called the Trail; and the fairgrounds. Also included is one snapshot of the Cedar River at Renton, Washington. The photographs are glued to seven album pages that appear to have been removed from a larger album. Captions in white ink are handwritten on the album pages below each photograph.