Photograph showing the exterior a two-story building on the corner of Southeast Washington Street and Southeast Union Avenue in Portland. Union Avenue is now Southeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. A carpenter’s shop is on the ground floor, and the street number 380 is visible in the shop’s front window. On the side of the building is a sign reading “Take Bromo-Seltzer for headaches.” Image note: Light leak on negative.
Photograph showing the exterior of a warehouse. A sign on the front of the building reads “Ballif Distributing Company.” The street number over the door is 522.
Photograph showing two unidentified men and a parked vehicle outside the Hickman Products Ltd. Company warehouse at at 1310 Southeast Union Avenue (now Southeast Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard) in Portland. This building is also shown in image No. 372A1200, when it was the Frank Fink Company warehouse.
Full-length portrait of a group of unidentified men posing in three rows outside the entrance to the Mutual Wholesale Drug Co. on North Russell Street in Portland. The text “Trade News” is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the image.
Photograph showing new shop buildings and cars along the main street in Bandon, Oregon, in December 1936, three months after a forest fire destroyed the town. On the left side of the street are signs for McNair Hardware Company, Gants Clothing, and Carr’s Variety Store. On the right side of the street are signs for Erdman’s City Market and the Haga & Church grocery store. See related image Nos. 372A1212, 372A1229, 372A1230, 372A1231, and 372A1232. Image note: The number 2 is written on the negative and is partially visible in the lower right corner of the image.
Photograph showing new buildings under construction in Bandon, Oregon, three months after a forest fire destroyed the town. A cropped version of this photograph was published on Page 7 of the Oregon Journal on Sunday, December 27, 1936, under the headline “Scars Left by Night of Flames Disappearing as Bandon Resolutely Builds Again.” This photograph had the following caption: “A view of New Bandon.” See related image Nos. 372A1213, 372A1229, 372A1230, 372A1231, and 372A1232. Image note: The number 1 is written on the negative.
Photograph showing an unidentified employee at Ideal Dairy in Portland scooping butter from an industrial churn into a mold. Also see image No. 372A1127, taken in the same location.
Photograph showing an unidentified man, possibly the proprietor, posing outside the door of Fay Drugs at Northeast 30th Avenue and Northeast Killingsworth Street in Portland. The store is in a single-story brick building.
Photograph showing an unidentified man holding a wooden tray below an extruder making short cut pasta at an unidentified food manufacturing facility. The machine is a horizontal hydraulic press for pasta products made by Cevasco, Cavagnaro & Ambrette, Inc., 156-166 Sixth Street, Brooklyn, New York. This photograph may be related to image No. 372A1207.
Photograph showing an unidentified woman holding sticks draped with long goods pasta made on a vertical hydraulic press for pasta products (shown on the left) at an unidentified food manufacturing facility. This photograph may be related to image No. 372A1208.
Photograph showing the exterior of theFarmers Co-operative Market building in Portland on Southwest Yamhill Street between 3rd and 4th avenues. Cars and pedestrians are passing the building in the foreground. See related image No. 372A1205.
Photograph showing the exterior of the Farmers Co-operative Market building in Portland on Southwest Yamhill Street between 3rd and 4th avenues. Pedestrians are passing the building at right, and a line of cars is parked next to it at left. See related image No. 372A1206.
Photograph showing the exterior of the Empire Drugs store on West Burnside Street at Northwest 23rd Avenue in Portland. A sign on the corner of the building reads “Empire Drugs / Fountain / No. 1.”
Photograph showing two unidentified employees from Tarola Motor Cars, one sitting on a three-wheeled motorcycle and one in the driver’s seat of a truck. They are parked on Northwest Couch Street outside St. Mary’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland.
Photograph showing a Portland Bottling Co. truck parked outside the company’s building at 1271 North Williams Avenue in Portland. Signs on the building read (from left): “For the 7 Hang Overs”; “Home of 7UP”; “Takes the Ouch out of Grouch”; “Portland Bottling Co.” Image note: Photograph shows discoloration due to deterioration of the negative.
Photograph showing two vehicles parked outside the Frank Fink Company warehouse at 1310 Southeast Union Avenue (now Southeast Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard) in Portland. On the side of the building are signs reading “Best Foods,” “Frank Fink Company / Food Distributors; and Nucoa. Next to a loading bay is a sign reading “Frank Fink Company / Distributors of Best Foods Products / Borden’s Cheese / Blue Moon Spreads.” This building is also shown in image No. 372A1215, when it was the Hickman Products Company Ltd. warehouse. Image note: Photograph shows discoloration due to deterioration of the negative.
Photograph showing an addition under construction at the Montgomery Ward warehouse in Portland in March 1936. A cropped version of this photograph was published on Page 5, Section 2, of the Oregon Journal on Sunday, March 29, 1936, under the headline “Pouring Third Floor Block at Ward’s.” The photograph had the following caption: “Building activity is at high gear on this $750,000 project at Montgomery Ward & Co. mail order and retail center at N. W. 27th avenue and Vaughn Street, as 150 men push the nine-story addition into the air.” The photograph accompanied a story headlined “Montgomery Ward Project On Schedule.” Image note: The text “Mont - Ward 3/26/36” is written on the negative and is faintly visible in the lower right corner of the image.
Photograph showing four unidentified women filling bags with Best-Ever Krinkles noodles, at the Oregon Macaroni Manufacturing Company in Portland. Image note: Negative damage in upper left corner.
Photograph, taken from track level, showing the depot, railroad tracks, and trains at Union Station in Portland. The Broadway Bridge is partially visible at right. The number 1998 is written on the negative and is partially visible at upper right. See related image No. 372A1195.
Photograph showing railroad tracks, the depot, and an oncoming train at Union Station in Portland. The Broadway Bridge is partially visible at right. The view is toward the northwest. The number 1999 is written on the negative and is visible in the upper right corner of the image. See related image No. 372A1196.
Photograph showing trains in a railyard near Union Station in Portland. The view is to the north. In the background at left is Crown Mills, at what is now 1362 Naito Parkway. The number 2012 is written on the negative and is visible in the upper right corner of the image.
Photograph showing a three-story brick building, possibly at 405 Northwest Couch in Portland. On the building are two signs reading “New Home of R. E. Douglas Inc. / Acme Beer Distributors.” Lower on the building are two signs in Chinese.
Photograph showing two unidentified men at the Blumauer-Frank Drug Company store in Portland, probably during the Christmas season. They are facing each other and the man on the left appears to be showing merchandise to the man on the right. Lamps are displayed on the wall behind them and the shelves are lined with tinsel. A partially visible sign at the top of the image reads “Blumauer-Frank's Gift-Department” and features illustrations of holly.
