Portrait showing a bowling team from the Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard. The members, six unidentified women, are standing in two rows on a staircase and are wearing matching collared shirts. The women at left and right in the front row are holding bowling balls. The bowler at the center of the front row has the name “Pat” embroidered on her shirt. The number 6 is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the photograph. Image note: Information based on the following unverified note written on the negative sleeve: “Albina shipbuilding / Girl bowling teams / 1/9/45.”

Photograph showing 9-year-old Jean de Graaf standing on a board atop the keel of a cargo ship at Albina Engine & Machine Works in Portland. The photograph was taken during the keel laying for the ship on March 16, 1945. Jean de Graaf, the daughter of Oregon tulip grower Jan de Graaf, is facing front, wearing traditional Netherlands clothing, and holding a Dutch flag. Several unidentified Albina employees are crouched around her, working on the ship’s keel. According to two stories in the Oregon Journal on March 16, 1945, the cargo ship was to be the first of 20 that the Netherlands had ordered from the Albina shipyard for use in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. Image note: The text “Albina shipbuilding / Keel laying / Dutch ship / 3/16/45” is written on the negative sleeve. See related image Nos. 375A0598, 375A0599, 375A0600, 375A0601, 375A0602, 375A0603, 375A0604, 375A0605, and 375A0607.

Photograph showing a group of unidentified employees at desks and tables in an office at the Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard in Portland. Hanging on the wall in the background is a board with the words “TIME OFFICE / BULLETIN BOARD” at the top. The number 182 is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the image. Information based on the following unverified note written on the negative sleeve: “Albina shipbuilding.”

Transcription from back: “Mrs. Abernethy.”

Full length portrait of three children. Two of the children are identified as Florence Ward and Inez Adair. The third child is unidentified. Transcription from back: “Florence Ward and Inez Adair, 1836?”

Transcription from back: “J. C. Carson.”

Transcription from back: “Mrs. Joseph M. Dolph.”

Transcription from back: “Sarah Dutcher.”

Transcription from back: “Mrs. S. G. Elliott.”

Glass lantern slide of Herman T. Bohlman and A. W. Anthony photographing kingfishers. Taken from original negative OrgLot369_FinleyA2723.

Maud Bohlman sitting at a sewing machine in her residence at 202 Occident Street.

Hand-colored, unmounted lantern slide of two young red-tailed hawks on nest. Original negative: OrgLot369_FinleyA2673.

The Vancouver Baptist Church congregation celebrated the 30th anniversary of O.B. Williams as pastor in 1975. Williams formed the congregation in 1945 in Burton Homes, Washington, and facilitated its permanent move to Albina in Portland. He served as an important community and civil rights leader throughout his tenure as pastor.

Rev. O.B. Williams leads services in 1961 for the Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church in the Albina neighborhood, Portland.

The Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church Gospel Choir held a benefit concert in 1950 at the Neighbors of Woodcraft Building (Tiffany Building), located on SW Morrison and 14th St.

Members of the Vancouver Avenue Congregational Church attend a meeting of the Christian Interracial Club in 1962.

A group photograph of members of the Church Deacon Board at the Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church in 1960.

A group of children and adults posing for a photograph in front of the Vancouver Avenue Baptist Church bus during a picnic in 1964.

Six unidentified women posing with their awards certificates during an Oregon Association of Colored Women’s Clubs annual Woman of the Year awards event, circa 1985.

The Oregon Association of Colored Women’s Clubs scholarship recipients for 1975 were Rudon Pierson, Patricia Hayes, and Dan Neal.

Oval photograph of Walter John Burns, wearing a suit and facing towards the camera.

Photograph of Emma (Ruggles) Corbett, second wife of Henry Winslow Corbett. She is seated and looking down towards her lap.

Photograph showing Caroline Elizabeth Wilson with her grand-daughter Anita Burns Davis.

Photograph showing Sarah Adams (Wood) Robertson on the occasion of her wedding to William Edie Robertson in 1881.

Photograph showing Thomas Robertson (1881-1924) seated in front of a decorative background.

Photograph of William Edie Robertson wearing a suit and tie.

Businesses on the west side of Front Avenue between Columbia and Jefferson Streets. Sign advertises ACME Bottle store. Several barrels are stacked on the sidewalk. Taken January 8, 1940.

Abigial Scott Duniway (seated) signing Oregon’s Equal Suffrage Proclamation. Standing beside her are Governor Oswald West (r) and President of the Oregon Equal Suffrage Association, Dr. Viola M. Coe (L.). The photograph was taken November 30, 1912 at Dr. Coe’s home. This photograph ran in the Sunday Oregonian on December 1, 1912 with the caption, “snapshot of Mrs. Duniway Presenting certificate of life membership in the suffrage league to governor west.”