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OHY_Lot10 Guide to the Port of Portland/Commission of Public Docks Photographs Collection 1911-1997 Port of Portland/Commission of Public Docks Photographs Collection Finding aid prepared by Sharon M. Howe 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. Oregon Historical Society, Research Library © 2004 Finding aid encoded by Sharon M. Howe 2004 Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS 2nd edition ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard). 2015 Revised to reflect updates to best practices. Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family Research Library Org. Lot 10 Port of Portland (Or.) Port of Portland/Commission of Public Docks Photographs Collection 1911-1997 1913-1942 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 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. Photograph captions are in English. Historical Note

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.

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.

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

The collection is open to the public.

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.

Port of Portland/Commission of Public Docks Photographs Collection, Org. Lot 10, Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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.

Gift of City of Portland, 1962. Gift of Port of Portland: 1970, 1992, and 1998 (Accession numbers 11398, 11561, 20927, 23626, and 23652).

Original order was maintained whenever possible or known. Many but not all negatives have been matched to prints.

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.

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.)

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.

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Pacific Coast Association of Port Authorities. Port of Portland (Or.) Portland (Or.). Commission of Public Docks. Angelus Studio (Portland, Or.) Brubaker Aerial Surveys (Portland, Or.) Docks--Oregon--Portland. Dredges--Oregon--Portland. Dry docks--Oregon--Portland. Floods--Oregon--Portland. Harbors--Oregon--Portland. Marine Terminals--Oregon--Portland. Shipping--Oregon--Portland. Ships. Columbia River (Or. and Wash.) Willamette River (Or.) Idaho Oregon Washington (State) Portland Seattle Photographs Agriculture Labor History Transportation Photographic prints Negatives Photograph albums

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Subgroup 1 Commission of Public Docks 1911-1960 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.

Series A Index to Photographs and Printing Plates 1912-1951 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.

1/1 Key to Index undated 1/2 Portland Harbor 1920-1940

Ships are indexed by their location in the harbor when photographs were made.

1/3 Port of Portland Airport [Swan Island] 1929 1/4 General 1919-1937

Includes privately-owned docks, dry docks, and Columbia River images.

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 1913-1957 1913-1942 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.

Subseries 1 General Images 1913-1948 233 photographic prints b&w 1 photomechanical print b&w 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 1922-1923 1927-1928 1934 1936 1938

Identified vessels: SS Floridian, SS Luckenbach, SS Missourian, SS Peter Kerr, SS San Rafael, SS Wheaton, and USS Omaha .

2/7 Ships at terminal 1919 1922 1937

Identified vessels: SS General Pershing, SS Gomeral, SS Heridia, SS Maratanza, and MS Dagmar Salien.

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 1913-1948 99 photographic prints b&w 2/14 General Views 1919 1921 1938

Identified vessels: SS Julia Luckenbach, SS Steel Inventor, SS West Harcuva, SS West Keats, SS West Togus , and MS Tuscaloosa City.

2/15 Ship at dock—USS Relief 1929 2/16 Sheer Leg Crane 1938-1940

A series of images shows crane hoisting gates for Bonneville Dam. Identified vessels: SS Alabaman, SS Alaskan, and SS Samoan.

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 1919 1921-1922 1929-1931 1937-1939

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.

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 1919-1939 65 photographic prints b&w 3/1 General views, including construction 1920 1925 1936

Identified vessels: SS Rose City, SS Steel Scientist, SS West Katan, and sternwheel tugboat Portland.

3/2 Ships at pier 1928 1931-1933 1938

Identified vessels: SS General Pershing, SS Portland, SS Princess Nora, SS West Katan, and MS Heiyo Maru.

3/3 Warehouse B—interior 1919 1921 1929 1939 3/4 Ships loading/unloading 1921-1922 1924 1929-1931 circa 1940

Identified vessels: SS Florida, SS Liberator, SS Pacific, SS Portland, SS Princess Nora, SS Steel Inventor, SS West Katan, and MS Heiyo Maru.

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 1922-1941 93 photographic prints b&w 3/8 Demolition to clear site 1922 3/9 General views 1922 1925 1930

Identified vessels: SS Atlantic, SS Oregonian, SS Paul Luckenbach, and SS Steel Scientist.

3/10 Ships at the pier 1922 1930 1936-1937 1939 1941

Identified vessels: SS Canton, SS Exilona, SS Isthmian, SS Minnesotan, SS Missourian, SS Oregonian, SS Point Clear, SS Paul Luckenbach, and MS Cape Flattery.

3/11 Warehouse—interior 1922 1929-1930 1932 3/12 Warehouse—interior 1936-1937 1939 1941 3/13 Ships loading/unloading 1922 1924-1925 1929-1930 1932 1934 1937 1939

Identified vessels: SS Calmar, SS Canton, SS Dakotan, SS Lewis Lukenbach, SS Navadan, SS Texan, SS Utahan, and SS Willkeno.

3/14 Accident site—Chris Bluhm 1941 Dec. 23 3/15 Damage to pier 1922 1929 1931 Subseries 5 Warehouse No. 1 1919-1939 14 photographic prints b&w 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 1931-1957 46 photographic prints b&w 3/19 Pier C 1937

Identified vessels: MS Dagmar Salénand SS Steelmaker.

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 1937-1938 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.

14/5 Album 10-1—pp. 23-34 1937 July-August

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.

14/6 Album 10-1—pp. 35-54 1937 March 3 1937 April 30

Includes 19 images of warehouse interiors and exterior terminal views as construction was starting and one image of construction of the Quay Dock Extension.

14/7 Album 10-1—pp. 55-60 1937 April

Includes 6 images of construction on Warehouse No. 2 and other areas.

14/8 Album 10-2—pp. 1-16 1937-1938

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.

14/9 Album 10-2—pp. 17-32 1937 May-July

Warehouse No. 2 construction.

14/10 Album 10-2—pp. 33-48 1937 July-November

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.

14/11 Album 10-2—pp. 49-60 1937 November-1938 February

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.

Series C Municipal Terminal No. 2 1915-1950 92 photographic prints b&w 1 photomechanical print b&w 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 1919-1921 1923-1924 1927 1930-1933 1935-1937 1939 circa 1950

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.

3/31 Commission of Public Docks Administration Building 1950 December

3070 N. Front Avenue

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 1929 1935 1937 1939

Identified vessels: SS Brookings, SS Curacao, and SS Mapia.

4/1 Accident scene—in warehouse 1928

Luther Loomis, victim

4/2 Damage to Pier 4 circa 1950

Includes image of "Condemned" sign. People identifiied: Mr. Gordon and Mr. Davis.

4/3 Flood and aftermath 1948 May 31-June 10

Includes Portland fireboat Mike Lauden.

Series D Municipal Terminal No. 3 1919-1922 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.

4/4 Drawing [photomechanical] circa 1920 4/5 Municipal Terminal No. 3 1919-1920 1922

Identified vessels: SS Eastern Sailor, SS Kokomo, and SS West Keats.

Series E Municipal Terminal No. 4 1917-1960 1917-1941 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.

Subseries 1 General Images 1917-1959 1917-1942 280 photographic prints b&w 1 photomechanical print b&w 4/6 Drawings [photomechanical and photographic reproductions] 1919-1922 4/7 Perspective drawing [photographic reproductions] 1924 4/8 Site and construction 1917-1918

Includes three-image panorama of the site (mounted on linen).

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 circa 1935

Oversize black-and-white print with small section of background hand-colored.

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 1959

Images removed from album for preservation purposes.

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 1917-1959 1917-1941 311 photographic prints b&w 4/34 Construction 1917-1919 4/35 Dedication 1919 April 12 4/36 General views 1919-1920 1922 1922-1923 1925 1927 1932 1937

Identified vessels: Sternwheel tugboat Cascades, SS Absercos, SS Dornoch, SS Lowther Castle, SS Peter Kerr, and MS Hindanger.

4/37 Ships at the pier 1919-1920 1934

Identified vessels: Sternwheel tugboat No-Wonder, SS Coast Miller, SS Damsterdyk, SS Pacific Exporter, and SS Wisconsin.

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 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 5/5 Railroad loading/unloading 1920 1922 1941 5/6 Ships loading/unloading 1919-1921

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.

5/7 Ships loading/unloading 1922 1925

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.

5/8 Ships loading/unloading 1933-1939

Includes unloading of Portland's first shipment of grain by barge. Identified vessels: SS Dalcroyand, MS Roseville .

5/9 Ships loading/unloading 1940 1959 undated

Includes "Airveyor" system for unloading grain barges, including a Shaver Forwarding Company barge. Identified vessels: SS Ramonaand MV Mercury .

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 5/15 Construction—general views 1919

Also shows grain elevator under construction.

5/16 Construction—wharf at head of Slip 1 1919

Also shows grain elevator under construction.

5/17 General views—including ships in Slip 1 1920-1922 1924-1925 1927 1929

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.

5/18 General views—including ships in Slip 1 1931 1933-1934 1937-1941

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.

5/19 Ships loading/unloading 1920-1922 1933-1934 1937-1939 1941

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.

5/20 Ships loading/unloading 1924 1929 1937

Identified vessels: SS Brazil Maru, SS Dilworth , SS Dorothy Luckenbach, SS Lochgoil, SS Ohioan, and MS Benrinnes.

5/21 Visitors 1921 1930

Includes school group (1921) and President's Council (1930). Identified vessels: SS Hermion, SS Montague, and MS Siam.

5/22 Wreck recovery—MS Feltre 1937

Raised after collision at mouth of Willamette River, towed to Terminal 4, and unloaded at Slip 1.

5/23 Damage by MS British Columbia Express 1940

Raised after collision at mouth of Willamette River, towed to Terminal 4, and unloaded at Slip 1.

5/24 Damage by MS British Columbia Express—report and diagram 1940

Raised after collision at mouth of Willamette River, towed to Terminal 4, and unloaded at Slip 1.

Subseries 3 Pier 2 1920-1960 1920-1941 128 photographic prints b&w 5/25 Construction 1920-1921 5/26 Views with ships 1924 1933-1934 1940-circa 1941

Identified vessels: SS Ancarstrey, SS Dominion Miller, SS Henry D. Whiton, SS New York, SS Northwestern Miller, SS Shinhei Maru, and tugboat Keith.

5/27 SS Munami at dock 1930 1934

Includes images showing ice on the Willamette River (1930).

5/27 Bulk cargoes 1920-1921 1937 1941 1960 undated

Cargoes in storage and transit include cedar and aspen logs, chrome ore, coal, scrap automobile wheels, sulfur, and timbers. Identified vessel: SS Arauco.

6/1 Warehouse—interior 1921-1922 1924 1932 1937 6/2 14/4 Warehouse—wool sales 1933 1936 1939-1940

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.

6/3 Railroad loading/unloading 1922 1924

Identified vessel: SS Robert Dollar.

6/4 Ships loading/unloading 1921-1922 1924 1935

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.

6/5 Ships loading/unloading ca. 1936 1937-1938 1940-1941 undated

Identified vessels: SS Aratama Maru, SS Colusa, SS Dornoch, SS Dorothy Luckenbach, SS Lowther Castle, SS Mauna Ala, SS Nordhval, and MS Hegeria.

6/6 Ships loading/unloading—SS President Hays 1923 January

Also includes image of the vessel departing Municipal Terminal 4.

6/7 Crane No. 3—overturned 1941 Feb. 13 6/8 Crane accident undated 6/9 Chief Engineer H.M. Anundson on Pier 2 undated

Matson Lines terminal

Subseries 4 Pier 5 1920-1960 1920-1941 157 photographic prints b&w 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 1921

Identified vessels: SS Tsurushima Maru, and SS Yoshida Maru.

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 1921 1923-1925 1927 1929

Identified vessels: SS Anson S. Brooks, SS Ceylon, SS Chamblee, and SS Sudawsonco.

6/19 Ships loading/unloading ca. 1930 1937 1940-1941 1957 1960

Identified vessels: SS Claremont (sunk at terminal), SS Herman Frasch, SS Nichito Maru, SS Syohei Maru, and SS William Taylor.

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 1918-1937 48 photographic prints b&w 7/1 Perspective drawing [photographic reproductions] 1919 7/2 Construction 1918-1920

Contractor, Grant Smith Co. Includes dedication, 1919 April 12

7/3 Exterior views 1920-1921 1931-1933

Includes views of railroad traffic.

7/4 Interior views 1921 1923 1937

Includes men at work and machinery.

7/5 Accident scene—Charles Walters, fatality 1924 Oct. 7 Series F Municipal Boat Landing 1913-1941 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.

7/6 Construction 1913 7/7 Views from land side circa 1915 1929 1937 1941

Includes portrait of Portland Harbor Patrol, Jan. 25, 1937.

7/8 Views from water side circa 1915 circa 1929 Series G Portland Harbor and Shipping 1918-1956 1918-1941 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.

Subseries 1 Harbor By Location 1918-1956 315 photographic prints b&w

The Dock Commission organized the prints in this series by location, using Portland harbor's many bridges as landmarks.

7/9 Above Madison Street Bridge 1920 1936 1940 ca. 1942

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.

7/10 Between Madison Street Bridge and Morrison Street Bridge ca. 1920 1928-1929

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.

7/11 14/3 Between Madison Street Bridge and Morrison Street Bridge 1932 1934-1937 1939 undated

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..

7/12 Between Morrison Street Bridge and Burnside Bridge ca. 1920 1928-1930

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.

7/13 Between Morrison Street Bridge and Burnside Bridge 1931-1935

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 .

7/14 Between Morrison Street Bridge and Burnside Bridge 1936-1940

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) .

7/15 Between Burnside Bridge and Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Bridge (Steel Bridge) circa 1920 1932-1934 1936-1938 1941 undated

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 .

7/16 Between Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Bridge (Steel Bridge) and Broadway Bridge circa 1919-1920 1925

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.

7/17 Between Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Bridge (Steel Bridge) and Broadway Bridge circa 1919 circa 1925 1933-1938 undated

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).

7/18 Between Broadway Bridge and Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Bridge 1918-1920

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.

7/19 14/2 Between Broadway Bridge and Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Bridge 1924 1928-1929

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.

7/20 Between Broadway Bridge and Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Bridge 1931-1934

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 <title render="italic">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.

8/1 Between Broadway Bridge and Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Bridge 1935 1937-1939

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 .

8/2 Between Broadway Bridge and Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Bridge—MS Klipfontein 1939 Nov. 19

Maiden voyage of passenger liner. One view in harbor and interior views of public areas and a stateroom.

8/3 Between Broadway Bridge and Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Bridge 1940 1956 undated

Views include Columbia Basin Terminals and Swan Island. Identified vessels: MS George Luckenbach, MS Redjacket (maiden voyage), and submarine USS Hawkbill.

8/4 Below Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Bridge 1929 1931-1933

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 .

8/5 Below Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Bridge 1934 1936-1937 1940 undated

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 .

8/6 Harbor locations unidentified 1918 circa 1920 circa 1925 1932 1936 circa 1940 undated

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.

8/7 Harbor locations —flood 1948

Snapshots at various harbor locations.

Subseries 2 Fleet Week Ships 1934 1936-1938 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.

8/8 14/1 Fleet Week 1934

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.

14/1 Fleet Week—parade and searchlight display 1936 August 8/9 Fleet Week—ships C-H 1936 August

Good views of the St. Johns Bridge. Identified vessels: USS Chester , USS Chicago, USS Farragut, and USS Houston.

8/10 Fleet Week—ships M-R 1936 August

Identified vessels: USS Milwaukee , USS Omaha, USS Relief, and U.S. Customs boat Robert N.

14/1 Fleet Week—parade formation at Civic Stadium and searchlight display 1937 July

Good view of St. Johns Bridge. Identified vessels: USS Arctic , USS Astoria, USS Chicago, USS Fox, and USS Indianapolis.

8/11 Fleet Week—ships A-L 1937 July

Good view of St. Johns Bridge. Identified vessels: USS Arctic , USS Astoria, USS Chicago, USS Fox, and USS Indianapolis.

8/12 Fleet Week—ships M-T 1937 July

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.

8/13 Fleet Week 1938 July

Good views of St. Johns Bridge and other bridges. Identified vessels: USS Arctic , USS Medusa, USS Pensacola, USS Relief, USS Tuscaloosa, and USS Vincennes.

8/14 Fleet Week 1938 July

Good views of St. Johns Bridge and other bridges. Identified vessels: USS Brooklyn , USS Honolulu, USS Nashville, USS Philadelphia, and USS Phoenix.

Series H Other Ports and Port Organizations 1919-1944 undated 13 photographic prints b&w 8/15 Baltimore, Maryland—model of harbor undated 8/16 Seattle, Washington 1919 ca. 1930 1937

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.

8/17 Pacific Coast Association of Port Authorities—conventions in Portland 1938 1944 Series I Proposed Plans for Harbor Improvements 1912-1920 21 photographic prints b&w

Photographic reproductions of drawings from plans produced for the Commission of Public Docks, Port of Portland, and other entities.

8/18 Proposed Plans for Harbor Development—Swan Island Industrial Sites 1920 8/19 Consulting Board Plans circa 1920

Reproductions of plates from a Consulting Board Plan submitted to the Commission of Public Docks.

8/20 E.H. Bennett's plan for "Greater Portland" 1912

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.

Series J General Photographs 1792 1911-1960 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.

Subseries 1 Aerial Photographs 1922-circa 1955 1922-1941 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.

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 9/3 Columbia River—Bonneville [town] 1930 9/4 Columbia River—Bonneville Dam—site 1931 1933

Some images include cut-out drawings of elements of the dam overlaid onto the aerial photograph.

9/5 Columbia River—Bonneville Dam—construction 1934-1938 9/6 Columbia River—Cascade Locks circa 1929

Includes view of Bridge of the Gods.

9/7 Columbia River—Hayden Island circa 1922

Pacific International Livestock Exposition.

9/8 Columbia River—mouth [Pacific Ocean] circa 1929 1931 1935

One image is annotated in ink showing locations of dredging work.

9/9 Columbia River—Portland-Columbia Airport 1937-1941

Later renamed Portland International Airport.

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 1939 1941

Developed by the Port of Portland.

9/13 Willamette River—Central Portland [east and west sides] 1928-1929 1930-1932 1935-1939 1941

Good views of the bridges from Ross Island on the south to Broadway on the north.

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 circa 1929 1932

After 1947, known as the West Coast Terminals.

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 circa 1927 circa 1929 1931-1932 1940

Includes Portland Municipal Airport and Kerr-Gifford Elevator Dock.

9/24 Willamette River—Eastern & Western Lumber Co. 1939

Hand-inked annotations in red show planned locations of Terminal 1, Berths 6, 7, and 8. Annotations may post-date the aerial photograph.

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. circa 1928

Good view of log booms.

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 circa 1929

For planes of new airmail service flying to and from Portland Municipal Airport, Swan Island.

9/31 Willamette River—overlay for Brubaker No. 39207 1939

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.

9/32 Willamette River—by the Oregonian newspaper. 1933

USS Augusta passing through Burnside Bridge.

9/33 Willamette River—by Photo-Art Commercial Studios circa 1955

Good views of the river and bridges in central Portland and one of Swan Island.

9/34 Willamette River—by Spence Air Photos circa 1940

Oil Basin Docks.

9/35 Willamette River—by B. Thurber circa 1930 1934

Portland Lumber Mills and Port of Portland Dry Docks.

9/36 Columbia/Willamette rivers—vertical aerial produced by unidentified source 1953 Subseries 2 Businesses and Industrial Plants circa 1919-1950 48 photographic prints b&w 9/37 Commercial Iron Works 1934 9/38 Cotton fumigation plant circa 1919 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 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 9/48 14/3 Schnitzer Steel Products Co. 1937 9/49 Willamette Iron & Steel 1950

Snapshots documenting interior of office building, dismantling a crane, and flooded dock.

Subseries 3 Columbia River 1792 1919-1927 6 photographic prints b&w 9/50 Mouth—charts [photographic reproductions] 1792 1919-1920

Admiral Vancouver's Survey, 1792, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers charts.

9/51 South Jetty Extension—drawing [photographic reproduction] 1920

By U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

9/52 USS Algonquin and SS Manhan 1927 Subseries 4 Damaged Buildings and Docks 1921-1960 1921-1947 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.

9/53 Oak Street Dock 1921-1922

Includes steamboats, Stranger and Twin Cities.

9/54 Swan Island dock 1922 March 8 9/55 Municipal Terminal No. 2 1927 9/56 M.L. Kline building 1928 February

Faced Front Street (80-86). Photographs show collapse of harborside wall.

9/57 McCormick Dock 1933 Aug. 23 9/58 Supple's Dock 1940 May 13

Shows warehouse interior.

9/59 Slide damage—locations unidentified 1959-1960 9/60 Concrete damage—location unidentified undated Photographic Harbor Survey 1947

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.

10/1 Photo inventory and preliminary survey report 1947

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.

10/2 Area Photograph No. 41—east side Willamette, north of St. Johns Bridge 1947

Includes Grant, Smith, & Porter Co. and Kern & Gibbs floating marine way.

10/3 Area Photograph No. 45—east side Willamette, south of St. Johns Bridge 1947

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.

10/4 Area Photograph No. 110—between Burnside and Morrison bridges 1947

East side

10/5 Area Photograph No. 111—east side Willamette, south of Railroad Bridge [SP&S bridge] 1947

Peninsula Lumber Co. and Willamette Tug & Barge

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 1947

Commercial Iron Works, Pacific Building Materials

10/8 Area Photograph No. 115—east side Willamette between Burnside and Morrison bridges 1947

Identified buildings include General Mills, Northwestern Ice and Cold Storage Co., and Pacific Fruit & Produce Co.

10/9 Area Photograph No. 116—west side Willamette, north of Broadway Bridge 1947

Durkee Foods and Pacific Coast Coal.

10/10 Area Photograph No. 117—east and west sides Willamette in Sellwood Bridge vicinity 1947

East Side Mill and Portland Shipbuilding Corp.

10/11 Area Photograph No. 118—east side Willamette south of Ross Island Bridge 1947

Ross Island Sand & Gravel Co. and Tait Sand & Gravel Co.

10/12 Area Photograph No. 119—east side Willamette between Morrison and Hawthorne bridges 1947

Hawthorne Dock Co., Richfield Oil Co. truck terminal, and United Grocers.

10/13 Area Photograph No. 120—east side Willamette between Hawthorne and Morrison bridges 1947

Motor Freight Terminals and Richfield Oil Co. truck terminal,

10/14 Area Photograph No. 121—east side Willamette between Morrison and Burnside bridges 1947

Nickum & Kelly and Nye & Samson.

10/15 Area Photograph No. 122—west side Willamette between Hawthorne and Ross Island bridges 1947

Northwest Electric Co.

10/16 Area Photograph No. 123—east side Willamette between Hawthorne and Ross Island bridges 1947

Hawthorne Dock Co. and Portland General Electric Co.

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 1947

Also Union Pacific Railway dock.

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 1931-1937 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.

11/1 Idaho circa 1935

Includes images of grain harvesting, sheep raising, and two oblique aerial views of Lewiston.

11/2 Montana—Northern Pacific freight train in Rockies circa 1935 Oregon 1934-1935 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 circa 1935

View of bridge, with riverboat and barge, possibly carrying load of folded woolen fabric

11/11 Pacific Highway circa 1935 1937 11/12 Pendleton and vicinity circa 1935 1937

Includes grain harvesting and Pendleton Woolen Mills.

11/13 Portland circa 1935

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.

11/14 Salem and vicinity—cherry growing circa 1935 11/15 Smith Canning Co. circa 1935

Pasted together with an image of sheep raising.

11/16 Washington state 1931 circa 1935

Includes view of Merwin Dam on Lewis River and corn field near Yakima.

11/17 Agriculture circa 1935

Includes dairying, field crops, fruit growing, grain harvesting, livestock raising, and food processing plants.

11/18 Industrial Plants and Warehouses circa 1935

Collins Flour Mills, Consolidated Freight Lines, lumber mill, paper mill, and unidentified plants.

11/19 River circa 1935 Subseries 6 Unclassified or Unidentified Images 1911-1957 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.

11/20 Accident—foot of Fourteenth St., Portland 1937 June 24 11/21 Equipment circa 1935 1953

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.

11/22 Docks—various and unidentified circa 1935 1941 July 17

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.

11/23 Docks—various and unidentified—construction circa 1920 circa 1940 11/24 Docks—West Coast Terminals 1947

Transition from Oceanic Terminals to West Coast Terminals. Includes exterior views of the complex and interiors of various pier warehouses.

11/25 Exhibit—"Theatrical Posters of the Gay Nineties," 1957

Photographic reproductions of two examples from a Library of Congress exhibit, which may have been on display at a Commission or Port facility.

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) 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.

Over B-1/1 Mounted prints circa 1955

Includes seven selections from what was probably an exhibit or presentation. Images primarily document Municipal terminals and loading and unloading cargo.

Series K Dry Docks and Shipyards 1920-circa 1960 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.

Subseries 1 Dry Docks 1920-1938 72 photographic prints b&w 11/37 Albina Engine & Machine Works dry dock [north Portland]—wind damage 1921 January 11/38 Portland Municipal Dry Docks—construction 1920 January-September

Documents launching of pontoons.

11/39 Portland Municipal Dry Docks—construction 1920 October-1921 March

Documents launching of pontoons.

11/40 Portland Municipal Dry Docks—Control House 1922 11/41 Portland Municipal Dry Docks—General views 1922-1924 1938

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.

11/42 Portland Municipal Dry Docks—ships in dry docks 1921-1922 1924 1938

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.

11/43 Port of Portland Dry Docks (Swan Island) circa 1950-circa 1960

General views including vessels: SS Biddle, and SS Oregon Mail.

Subseries 2 Shipyards circa 1916-circa 1960 9 photographic prints b&w 11/44 St. Helens Shipbuilding Co. (St. Helens, Or.) circa 1916

City of Portland sailing vessel soon after launch.

11/45 Swan Island—site 1939 Sept. 22 11/46 Swan Island—construction 1941 June 6 11/47 Swan Island—Kaiser Shipyard 1941

General views including vessels: SS Oregon Mail

Subgroup2 Port of Portland 1920-1997 1920-1952 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 Series A Job Files 1920-1937 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.

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 1924

Includes dredges at work and view of mill and power plant.

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 1923-1925

Includes images of Christmas dinner for crew of dredge Willamette, 1924.

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 1924-1926 1928

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.

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 1925 April

Includes good views of Broadway Bridge.

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] 1931 1934

Also includes four images of preparing mooring at Pier No. 1 (1931).

Portland-Columbia Airport site [north side of Portland International Airport site, 2004] 1936-1937 26/2 No. 2220-1100—Diversion culvert, McBride's Slough 1936

Also includes four images of preparing mooring at Pier No. 1 (1931).

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 1936

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;

27/1 No. 2222-2700, 2800—Dredge fill 1936-1937 27/2 No. 2222-3100—Miscellaneous small jobs 1936-1937

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.

27/3 No. 2222-3400—Miscellaneous small jobs 1936-1937

Includes pumping dredge seepage water, work on McBride's Slough through Alderwood Golf Course, and building drain from pickle factory to west boundary ditch.

27/4 No. 2222-3600—Grading for pemanent buildings 1936 Aug. 21 27/5 [no number]—Port of Portland Dry Dock—surfacing parking area 1934 Series B Subject Files 1920-1938 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.

27/6 Barges and scows 1928 1930 1934

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.

27/7 Barges and scows —Grant drill scow 1926 September Boats and Ships 1920-1938 27/8 Port of Portland 1920 1923-1926 1930

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

27/9 In Port of Portland Dry Docks 1924-1925

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.

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 1925, 1933

Entering Portland harbor, which was to be her permanent home (1925) and proposed mooring at foot of Jefferson Street (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 1923 1927

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tug George Mandel and ocean-going tug John R. Williams.

28/15 Miscellaneous 1921 1924-[1925]

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.

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 [1929] 1932

Includes Brubaker Aerial Survey view (1929)

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 29/1 Clamshells [1925] 1929 Feb. 4

Includes Santiam after fire (1929) and clamshell working on Sacramento River (Calif.)

29/2 Col. P.S. Michie (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) [1925] 29/3 Columbia 1921-1924 [1925]

Includes launching party, working views, and interior views.

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 1923 1934

Includes Dredge Umpqua at Port of Portland Dry Docks, Murphy Timber Co. dredge, and engines manufactured by United Dredge.

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 1921-1922 1929

Views at Prescott Mill, dredging at Upper Martin Island Bar and in Columbia Slough, and its remains being burned.

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] 1920-1925 1930

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.

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] [1920] 1923 1925 [1930]

Identified dredges and tenders: Clatsop, Multnomah, San Joaquin, Whakiakum, and dredge tenders Adamsand Post.

30/4 Washington [owned by Port of Grays Harbor, Wash.] 1924 30/5 Willamette [owned by Port of Portland] 1921 1924-1925

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.

Dredging and Filling Equipment 1920-1934 30/6 Buckets 1925-1927

Includes bucket makes and types: grapple, Jeffries, Jeffery, Stockton, Wakefield, and Williams. Views of dredge Kansas [Port of Portland].

30/7 Conveyors—fuel 1920 [1925]

Includes views of dredges Columbia , Tualatin, and Willamette.

30/8 Hydrants 1925 March-April

Includes views of dredges Columbia and Tualatin.

30/9 Ladders 1920-1921

Includes views of dredges Columbia , Tualatin, and Willamette.

30/10 Nozzles—tests 1920-1921

Includes views of dredges Portland , Tualatin, and Willamette.

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 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 1924-1925

Includes Coon Island Light erosion, grading for Coos Bay Jetty, frozen Willamette River (1924), and dredge Willamette.

31/22 Spillways 1929-1930

Includes spillways connecting Piercy Slough to Columbia Slough, on Sauvie Island, the Gilbert River, and the Kitteridge Drain.

31/23 Test borings 1933 Dry Docks 1920-1934

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.

32/1 Construction 1920-1921 32/2 Views of pontoons and grounds [and engine room] 1922 1926

Identified vessels in dry docks include: Dredges Clatsop, Portland, and Willamette, and SS Niels Nielson.

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 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] 1921 June

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

32/11 High water on Willamette River [oblique aerial view] 1925 February

Shows Municipal Terminal No. 4 and dike on Weyerhaeuser property.

32/12 High water on Willamette River 1927 June

Includes Mock's Bottom and Port of Portland Warehouse No. 1 (foot of Sherlock Avenue).

32/13 High water on Columbia and Willamette rivers 1933 June

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,

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 [1925] 1929

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.

33/5 Portland harbor—oblique aerial views 1924-1934

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

33/6 Portland harbor—views 1920-1921

Identified vessel: sailing ship, Monongahela.

33/7 Portland Yacht Club, Yacht Harbor, and Other Moorages 1921 [1930] 1934

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.

33/8 Warehouse No. 1—Port of Portland [heavy snow] 1929 Feb. 7 Series C Other Unclassified Images and Albums 1922-1997 1922-1952 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.

Subseries 1 Numbered Images Related to Port Job Files 1922-1936 13 photographic prints col. 1 folder manuscripts 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 1923 Aug. 25

Typescript list [2 pages] of "Proposed dredging at Longview remaining to be done by The Port of Portland Dredges."

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 1923-1938 131 photographic prints b&w 12/7 Boats and Ships—fishing boat Wenonah 1923 12/8 Boats and Ships—tugboats 1923 1935

Identified tugboats: John McCracken and Oneonta.

12/9 Bulkheads [1925] [1935] 12/10 Docks—Muncipal Terminal No. 4 [1936] 12/11 Dredges 1924-1925 1935 1937

Identified dredges: Clackamas, Columbia, and Texas.

12/12 Dredging Equipment [1934]-1938 12/13 Dredging Equipment—pipeline—floating 1935 1937 12/14 Dredging Equipment—pipeline—shore [1926] 1935

Includes work at Municipal Terminal No. 4 and other unidentified locations

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 1932-1997 1932-1954 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.

12/20 Boats and Ships—steamboat models undated

Models of Daisy Ainsworth, Harvest Queen, and R.R. Thompson.

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] circa 1970

Reproduction of artist's color rendering.

34/9 Docks—Port of Portland terminals [color] circa 1975

Includes Terminal 4, most notably the grain elevators and loading logs.

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 1935 1948 1950 undated

Includes pumps, switches, Y's, and other equipment and pipe hauling by St. Johns Motor Express Co.

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 1939 1948 Undated

Includes tenders and tugboats on the ways and one wider view. Identified vessels: Dredge tender Modoc and clamshell dredge Co. P.S. Mischie.

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] circa 1950

Site leased from Port of Portland.

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 1936 Feb. 24

Barns and other farm buildings on Commonwealth farm, Sheldon property, and old Sun Dial farm.

Subseries 4 Albums 1952-1997 113 photographic prints in 3 albums b&w & col. 14 photomechanical prints in 1 album b&w 33/9-11 34/1-3 Album 10-3 —Port of Portland Dry Docks (Swan Island)—construction of new pier 1952

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.

13/24 Album 10-4 —Port of Portland Equipment [portfolio with photomechanical prints] circa 1965

Includes views of terminals and warehouses. Shows bulk outloader, carriers, cranes, derrick, forklifts, and unloading tower,

34/4-5 Album 10-5 —Port of Portland Facilities and Services circa 1975

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.

13/25-27 Album 10-6 —Municipal Terminal 4, Pier 1 1997 June

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.

Subseries 5 Mounted Prints circa 1970-circa 1975 2 photographic prints b&w 2 photographic prints col. Over B-1/2 Barge [color] circa 1970 Over B-1/3 Dredge Portland circa 1970 Over B-1/2 Portland International Airport [color] circa 1970

Includes terminal, Hughes Airwest plane, and small planes.

Over B-1/2 Sternwheel tugboat Portland [color] ca. 1970 13/28 Terminal circa 1975

Identified vessel: MS Paralla