OHS Digital Collections

371N5678
Item
1923 - 1936

Part of Oregon Journal Photographic Negatives

Photograph showing Multnomah Falls and the Multnomah Falls footbridge from below on a winter day. The ground and the cliffs on either side of the waterfall are covered with snow.

Small group at Horsetail Falls?, Columbia River Gorge

373G0360
Item
1902 - 1924

Part of Oregon Journal Photographic Negatives

Photograph showing a group of four unidentified people and a dog in front of a waterfall, probably Horsetail Falls in the Columbia River Gorge. The people in this photograph may also be depicted in image No. 373G0358. Also see image Nos. 373G0346 and 379G0100, which may be related.

Tsuboi Family Home Movie - "Japanese Scenes - Africa Maru (ship) - Shots of Portland & Steele Bridge - 1928 Logging Camp"

MI10698_Tsuboi
Item
1928?

Part of Tsuboi Family home movies

Tsuboi family home movie, featuring footage of a trip to Japan, the Africa Maru cargo ship, Portland, Oregon, and the Columbia River Gorge. Footage is in black-and-white.
00:00 - Scenes from a trip to Japan, including temples, buildings, streets, and the Kanaya Hotel.
03:27 - Scenes of the cargo ship Africa Maru, which transported many Japanese immigrants to the Pacific Northwest. Japanese civilians bid farewell to the ship. Footage of the ocean voyage, possibly from Japan to Seattle.
06:24 - Scenes of Mount Hood and driving through the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon
07:22 - Scenes of Downtown Portland. Shots of the Tsuboi family.
08:00 - Scenes of the Columbia River Gorge.
08:38 - Iceskating on a frozen lake. Sign reads: Kahlotus.
09:11 - Steel Bridge in Portland, Oregon
09:20 - Scenes of the Columbia River Gorge. Various waterfalls, including Multnomah Falls

Tsuboi family

Eagle Creek - Columbia River Highway, Oregon

OrgLot1275_B3_Christian_11-661
Item
1940-1960?

Part of Gilliam Portrait Studio and Camera Shop negatives

Negative of a photographic postcard showing a waterfall in a narrow gorge. Taken from the top of the waterfall, looking down at the gorge. Handwriting on negative reads, "Eagle Creek - Columbia River Highway. Christian 11-661."

Christian (Photographer)

Latourell Falls, after logging

OrgLot1284_1964_3
Item
1952-04

Part of Al Monner news negatives

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).

Monner, Al (Alfred Anthony), 1909-1998

Latourell Falls

OrgLot1284_1964_9
Item
1952-04

Part of Al Monner news negatives

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).

Monner, Al (Alfred Anthony), 1909-1998

Group Posing with Automobile at Shepperd's Dell on the Columbia River Highway

OrgLot78_B2F6_003
Item
1916

Part of Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway photographs

Photograph of a group of people posing behind an automobile parked on the side of the Historic Columbia River Highway at Shepperd's Dell in the Columbia River Gorge. There is a waterfall behind them, to the left. Writing on the bottom of the print indicates a 1916 copyright by the Weister Co.

Weister Company

Sternwheeler Bailey Gatzert passes Multnomah Falls on the Columbia River

OrgLot78_B6F6_002
Item
1890 - 1925?

Part of Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway photographs

Photograph showing the sternwheeler Bailey Gatzert on the Columbia River in the Columbia River Gorge. Multnomah Falls is in the background on the Oregon side of the Gorge. Handwritten note on the back reads, "S.S. Bailey Gatzert passing Multnomah Falls." Second handwritten note reads, "Return to Traffic Dept., SP&S." Stamp on the back for Beaver Engraving Co.

Kiser Photo Co. (Portland, Or.)