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Group of men on snow-covered Columbia River Highway

Photograph showing a group of unidentified men, most wearing overcoats, hats, and ties, standing on the Columbia River Highway. The road is covered with snow, and an unidentified man with a shovel is standing on a high snowbank piled at left. On the road in the background is a snowplow. At right are railroad tracks. A mark that may be the number 2 or 4 is written on the negative and is visible in the lower left corner of the image.

Aerial view of Vista House and Crown Point Viaduct

Aerial photograph showing Vista House and the surrounding Crown Point Viaduct in the Columbia River Gorge. The view is toward the east. The lower half of the view is obstructed by the wing of the airplane from which the photograph was taken. A cropped version of this photograph was one of 10 that were published on the front page of the Oregon Journal Sunday magazine on June 5, 1932. The photographs accompanied a story, headlined “Looping the Loop by Air,” that recounted an airplane trip following the route of the Mount Hood Loop Highway and described the views from the air. The photographs had the following caption: “Glimpses of familiar scenery snapped by Roy Norr, Journal staff photographer, in ‘doing’ the Mont [sic] Hood Loop the air way.” This photograph had the following additional information: “Crown Point as it looks to the sky rider.” See image Nos. 371N5698, 371N5703, 371N5704, 371N5716, 371N5717, and 371N5721, which were published on the same page as this photograph. Also see image Nos. 371N5699, 371N5700, 371N5701, and 371N5702, which were taken during the same trip. Image note: Light leak on negative.

Norr, Roy, 1886-1960