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Portland and Vancouver photograph album, Album 540, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Album containing 97 black and white snapshots, 1912-1913. Most are casual portraits of people, nearly all taken outdoors. The album pages include handwritten notes and comments, sometimes identifying people in the images or the places where the photographs were taken. Many of the people depicted are unidentified, or are identified only by initials. Those identified by name include: Dr. A. D. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. B. Heaton, Urba M. Knight, Otto A. Berg, Harry Conner, Philip S. Hilton, Harry M. Ray, Frank Fay Jr. and Jack McColumbia. Among the identified locations where the photographs were taken are sites around Portland, Oregon, including Council Crest, Washington Park, and the roof of the Spalding Building; Lake Oswego, Oregon; Latourell, Oregon; Vancouver, Washington; and Mud Lake. The images also include two photographs of a battleship, the U.S.S. Maryland, in the Portland harbor, and of people with surveying equipment.
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