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 a small corner building with signs for a lunch counter and a barber shop. The street numbers 536 and 534 are visible above the businesses’ doors. Signs for the Rowe Plumbing Company (center) and a theater (right) are visible on buildings in the background.
Full-length portrait of three unidentified employees posing next to a display of Nucoa margarine at a Thriftway store. Above the display is a sign reading “Thriftway's 10,000 Lb. / New NUCOA sale / LARGEST IN OREGON.”
People at Union Station in Portland, taken the day before Christmas. At the far side of the room is a ticket office, and a large sign reads “Military, Train Reservations and Information” (negative 2 of 2).
A sign in a shop window advertises for the “Molalla Buckeroo.” On the sign is an illustration of a cowgirl and a rider on a bucking horse. Store merchandise and a refrigerator can be seen through the window (negative 14 of 14).
Photograph showing people listening to the radio outside Walsh Electric and Appliance in Portland, one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Likely, the photographed listeners were gathered to hear news regarding congress declaring war on Japan on December 8, 1941 (negative 1 of 3).
