Negatives documenting company activities, including electrical infrastructure, employees, power generation and distribution throughout Portland, the Willamette Valley and the Oregon Cascade Range. Additional general images include streetcars and trains, street lighting, power line installation, Rose Festival floats, office buildings, car barns and bridges. Of particular note are dam building projects at Bull Run and along the Clackamas River (1910-1930), and early electric stations in Oregon City at Willamette Falls.
Latourell Falls viewed from the Columbia River Highway, after logging operations removed trees in the area. A truck is parked in a dirt lot in front of the walls, which can be seen behind a hillside. Photograph taken as part of a series documenting the effort of the Portland Women’s Forum, Save the Gorge committee, to curtail logging in the area. This photograph was published in the Oregon Journal on Sunday, April 6, 1952 (negative 3 of 23).
People on a trail in front of Latourell Falls in the Columbia River Gorge. Water cascades down the basalt rock face, in front of a wooden bridge, seen at the right side of the frame. Members of the Portland Women’s Forum, Save the Gorge committee, wearings jackets and hats, walk with a group of men. Photograph taken as part of a series documenting the effort of the Portland Women’s Forum, Save the Gorge committee, to curtail logging in the area. Photographs from this series were published in the Oregon Journal on Sunday, April 6, 1952 (negative 9 of 23).
