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"D.114. From Rooster Rock to Oneonta Falls. The Needles. View West."

View of railroad tracks passing through the rock formation known as the Needles on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge during the winter storm of 1884-1885. This plate is part of an album of Watkin’s New Series photographs originally owned by Charles H. Prescott, manager of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co.

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

"D.119. From Rooster Rock to Oneonta Falls. The Needles."

View of railroad tracks passing through the rock formation known as the Needles on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge during the winter storm of 1884-1885. This plate is part of an album of Watkin’s New Series photographs originally owned by Charles H. Prescott, manager of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co.

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

Rock Cut for Railroad Construction

Photograph of railroad construction workers standing in an unfinished rock cut. Steep rock cliffs rise all around them and one person stands on the cliff above them. Railroad tracks, still under construction, end at the rock face behind the workers. Taken on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge. Handwritten note on the back of the print reads, "Rock cut at 1488." Second note reads, "MP 52.5 near Carson, tracks at left to river's landing."

“Residence of Jo.Bailey, Esq., O.R.R. Cascades.” (Stereograph 1295)

Duplicate of Stereograph 1295, on a different mount. Stereograph view of the home of Joseph Bailey, superintendent of the Oregon Steam Navigation Co.’s Oregon Portage Railroad and sawmill, at Eagle Creek in the Columbia River Gorge, 1867. The man in the black jacket, hat, and white shirt on the railroad bridge is Joseph Bailey. John Stevenson is sitting on the mule-drawn cart with another unidentified man.

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

“Residence of Jo.Bailey, Esq., O.R.R. Cascades.” (Stereograph 1295)

Duplicate of Stereograph 1295, on a different mount. Stereograph view of the home of Joseph Bailey, superintendent of the Oregon Steam Navigation Co.’s Oregon Portage Railroad and sawmill, at Eagle Creek in the Columbia River Gorge, 1867. The man in the black jacket, hat, and white shirt on the railroad bridge is Joseph Bailey. John Stevenson is sitting on the mule-drawn cart with another unidentified man.

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

Verso of, “The Tooth Bridge, O.R.R. Cascades, Columbia River.” (Stereograph 1298)

Duplicate of Stereograph 1298, on a different mount. Stereograph of the Tooth Bridge, located west of Eagle Creek in the Columbia River Gorge and part of the Oregon Steam Navigation Co.’s Oregon Portage Railroad around the rapids of the Cascades of the Columbia, 1867. The mule-drawn cart approaching the camera on the tracks is carrying John Stevenson and Joseph Bailey, superintendent of the Oregon Portage Railroad.

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

"West Portal, Tunnel No. 3, Oregon." (Stereograph E19)

Stereograph of the west entrance to the Oregon Railway & Navigation Co.'s Tunnel No. 3 on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge, circa 1882. Items 2/85 and 2/86 are duplicate stereographs on different mounts. Alternate caption on stereograph 2/86: "Tunnel No. 3, West Portal, Columbia River Scenery, Oregon."

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

Verso of, "West Portal, Tunnel No. 3, Oregon." (Stereograph E19)

Stereograph of the west entrance to the Oregon Railway & Navigation Co.'s Tunnel No. 3 on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge, circa 1882. Items 2/85 and 2/86 are duplicate stereographs on different mounts. Alternate caption on stereograph 2/86: "Tunnel No. 3, West Portal, Columbia River Scenery, Oregon."

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

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