Collection is open for research.
Gift of the Clarke Historical Museum, care of Pam Service, December 2004 (Lib. Acc. 25609).
Portland, Oregon, presented the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition and Oriental Fair in 1905. The world's fair drew visitors from the region, nation, and world to see what Portland had to offer. It featured buildings of exhibits representing many states and nations, as well as a midway called the "Trail."
Photographs were originally collected by the Clarke Historical Museum in Eureka, California, before being transferred to the Oregon Historical Society Research Library in 2004.
Collection was titled "Clarke Historical Museum photographs collection" prior to February 2023.
Records of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, Mss 1609, are also held at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
This collection of 14 snapshots by an unidentified photographer (possibly from Washington state) gives a brief tourist-eye-view of a visit to the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition and Oriental Fair in Portland, Oregon, in 1905. The photographs primarily depict buildings at the exposition. Places shown include the Oriental Building; the Forestry Building; the Oregon Building; the bridge across Guild's Lake; the Government Building; the Agricultural Building; the Washington Building; the midway, called the Trail; and the fairgrounds. Also included is one snapshot of the Cedar River at Renton, Washington. The photographs are glued to seven album pages that appear to have been removed from a larger album. Captions in white ink are handwritten on the album pages below each photograph.
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