1910s
- "Benson Cocktails", Street Drinking Fountains in Portland - c. 1917As low as $5.00A newsboy stops for refreshment at one of twenty water fountains given to the city of Portland by Simon Benson, shortly after they were installed. Learn More
- 1912 and 1900 School Buildings in Sisters - c. 1919As low as $5.00The two-room schoolhouse on the right was the second school building in the town of Sisters, and was replaced in 1912 by the six-room structure on the left. Learn More
- 1913 Holt Track-type Tractor Hauling Logs - 1914As low as $5.00This U. S.Reclamation Service tractor was used to haul logs to the lake at Kachess Dam, in Kittitas County, Washington. Learn More
- 1913 Packard Runabout on the Way to Mt. HoodAs low as $5.00The joys of a wintertime ride to Mount Hood, as well as the details of a classic 1913 Packard, are well conveyed by this well-made photo by an unknown photographer. Learn More
- 20th Century Grocery, Oregon City - 1919As low as $5.00This photo of the 20th Century Grocery store at 611 Main Street in Oregon City was taken in August, 1919, shortly after the end of World War I. Learn More
- 3 1/2 ton Kelly-Springfield Truck Hauling a Steam Donkey - c. 1917As low as $5.00While steam donkeys for logging were equipped with skids to allow them to be moved about in the woods, sometimes it was necessary to move them longer distances to new camps. Learn More
- A Detroit Electric at Mount Rainier - 1919As low as $5.00The Detroit Electric was manufactured from 1907 to 1936, though most of its sales were in the teens. Advertised with an 80 mile range, its record (with special batteries and driving very slowly) was 241 miles! Learn More
- A Donkey Nuzzles its Mother - c. 1910As low as $5.00Who can resist a mother-and-child photo when both are soft and furry? This farm scene from a century ago shows that some things do not change. Learn More
- A Farm Scene near Medford - c. 1913As low as $5.00This classic view shows a small grouping of farm buildings, including several houses. Probably an extended family lived here. Learn More
- A Glimpse of Depoe Bay - circa 1910As low as $5.00This inviting image is from an unusually large print (for him) by Albert L. Thomas of Newport. Learn More
- A Nez Perce Canoe - 1910As low as $5.00Each region created their own canoe designs based on tradition and available materials. This view shows a Nez Perce version, carved out of a single cedar log. Learn More
- A Raging Sea, Newport - c. 1910As low as $5.00This photo by Newport photographer Albert Thomas demonstrates his skill at capturing movement at a time when most photographs required long exposure times. Learn More
- A Small Steam Donkey Near Sandy - c. 1910As low as $5.00Two loggers take it easy while reclining on the cable spools of a steam donkey in this postcard view of logging in the Sandy area. Learn More
- A Storm on the Summit - c. 1910As low as $5.00Beautiful clouds arch over the summit of Mt. Hood in an early photo of climbers approaching the summit. One climber towards the right appears to be sitting down, just taking it all in. Learn More
- Above the Clouds, Summit of Mt. Hood - c. 1915As low as $5.00Clouds can be seen below the climbers in this scene captured by photographer Weister with his bulky glass plate camera. Learn More
- Adams Department Store Throws a Sale - c. 1910As low as $5.00Adams Department Store in Oregon City did a lot of business with local mill workers. Their sign states this is the second shipment of 300 "mill shoes" they'd received in a month. Learn More
- After A Storm - c. 1910As low as $5.00Another view from Albert Thomas of Newport, where he demonstrates his ability at fast exposure, capturing the splash of the waves and the seagull in flight just above them. Learn More
- Along the Shore at Crater Lake - c. 1910As low as $5.00This hand-tinted view by Kiser looks along the south shore of the lake, towards Mount Scott in the distance. Learn More
- Arriving at the Summit of Mount Hood - 1910sAs low as $5.00Two women and two men arrive at the summit of Mt. Hood on a beautiful day. Learn More
- At Rest in the Woods - circa 1915As low as $5.00A hiker relaxing against a tree helps give a sense of scale to this hundred-year-old image of a stand of old growth Douglas Fir, somewhere in Oregon. Learn More
- At the Hitching Post in Fossil - 1913As low as $15.00Looking north on 2nd Street between Washington and Main, we can see that horse-drawn vehicles still dominated the streets in Fossil in 1913. Learn More
- Beer and Chickens - c. 1910As low as $5.00Old Oswego appears to have been a place where people knew how to have fun. At least this photo of men holding both beers and dead chickens indicates that. Learn More
- Below Willamette Falls - c. 1915As low as $5.00This view showing the power and beauty of Willamette Falls is from an original glass negative by George M. Weister. Learn More
- Bluffs Near Newport - c. 1910As low as $5.00Yaquina Head Lighthouse can be seen in the distance in this hundred-year-old, but very modern looking, scenic photo taken by Albert Thomas, a professional photographer from Newport. Learn More
- Boating on Crater Lake - 1912As low as $5.00This is a hand-tinted version of a well-known photograph by Kunselman and Gerking, usually seen in its original black and white form. Learn More
- Bringing Home the Threshing Machine - circa 1915As low as $5.00It's very likely that a steam-powered tractor was used to power this threshing machine, but when it came time to return it to the barn an eight-horse team did the job. Learn More
- Bringing in a Load of Shake Bolts - circa 1910As low as $5.00This view by an unknown photographer shows an intermediate step in the making of shake shingles, as a load of shake bolts is either arriving or leaving the premises, pulled by a fine team with the supervision of the dog in the lower right. Learn More
- Bringing in the Hay, Paulina Prairie - 1911As low as $5.00Hay wagons are prominent in this photo of haying at the Laurie Caldwell Ranch in Paulina Prairie, near La Pine. The woman in white near the center is most likely Mrs. Caldwell. Learn More
- Bringing the Engine out of the Station - c. 1918As low as $5.00This great early action photo shows driver George Welch bringing Engine No. 2 out of the station in Portland. Learn More
- Broadway Bridge with Sternwheeler - 1915As low as $5.00Created in 1915 by an unknown photographer, this view shows the Broadway Bridge, looking towards the west, two years after its completion. You can find much the same view today from North Interstate Avenue. Learn More
- Bucker Ready to Crosscut a Ten-foot Diameter Fir - 1915As low as $5.00A logger hard at work bucking a huge ten foot fir stands on a smaller six-foot fir, which the caption on the original photo tells us was "a half-buried windfall which had been down more than a hundred years". Learn More
- Bucyrus Steam Shovel near Brinnon, Washington - c. 1910As low as $5.00This hundred-year-old image shows a large steam shovel on rails, digging a channel to float logs for Iszett Logging Company to Hood Canal. Learn More
- Buggy in Front of the Courthouse, Oregon City - c. 1915As low as $5.00One of Ralph Eddy's early glass plate photos, this crisp view taken with his large wooden camera shows a street scene at Eighth and Main Streets in downtown Oregon City. Learn More
- Building the Bolton Reservoir - c. 1915As low as $5.00Photographer S. P. Davis has captured some wonderful abstract patterns while documenting the construction of West Linn's first reservoir in about 1915. Learn More
- Building the Dalles - Celilo Canal - 1910As low as $5.00The Dalles-Celilo canal, over eight miles long, begins about three miles upriver from The Dalles. Its construction lasted from 1905 through 1915. Learn More
- Building West Linn's First Stand Pipe - c. 1915As low as $5.00This fifty-foot tall, 50,000 gallon standpipe was built as part of West Linn's first water project, to supply the upper parts of the newly-incorporated city. Learn More
- Business Section with Suspension Bridge, Oregon City - c. 1918As low as $5.00While this postcard view was postmarked 1923, we believe the photo was taken in the teens. Learn More
- Business Section, Joseph, Oregon - c. 1910As low as $5.00When this photo was taken in about 1910, Joseph was thriving, partly because of the railroad which had arrived in 1908. Learn More
- C. N. Haines Store, NW Corner 1st and A, Oswego - c. 1910As low as $5.00After a day battling traffic traveling through First Addition in Lake Oswego, come back and look at this photo of how it appeared a hundred years ago. Learn More
- Camping at Indian Henry, near Mt Rainier - c. 1915As low as $5.00A camping group awaits their meal in Indian Henry's Hunting Grounds, a meadow near the foot of Mt. Rainier. Learn More
- Car Camping at the Newly Completed Crater Lake Lodge - c. 1916As low as $5.00Car camping was popular by 1916, and setups often involved pitching a tent over the car itself, as can be seen by two sets of campers in the foreground. Learn More
- Card Room, Oregon City Woolen Mill - 1918As low as $5.00A 1918 view of the card room at Oregon City Woolen Mills, where wool fibers were separated and put in a thread-like form before spinning. Learn More
- Cars and Motorcycles at Shepperd's Dell Bridge - c. 1916As low as $5.00An unknown photographer captured this scene of cars and motorcycles at Shepperd's Dell Bridge on the Columbia River Highway, shortly after the highway was opened in 1916. Learn More
- Castle Crest and Garfield Peak, Crater Lake - c. 1912As low as $5.00The trail to the top of Garfield Peak, in the center of this image, winds along rugged Castle Crest, just this side of the peak. Learn More
- Cazadero Powerhouse, Near Estacada - 1912As low as $5.00Built in 1907 next to the Clackamas River, not on it, the Cazadero Powerhouse was powered by man-made Faraday Lake, itself filled by Cazadero Dam, two miles upstream. Learn More
- Cedar River Logging Trestle, 203 Feet High - c. 1917As low as $5.00Completed shortly before this photo was taken by Darius Kinsey, the Cedar River trestle was exceptionally high for a pole-built trestle. Learn More
- Celilo Falls, Circa 1915As low as $5.00This image, recreated from a detailed larger print, shows another edition of the evolving fishing structures at Celilo Falls. Learn More
- Chanticleer Inn, Columbia River Highway - c. 1916As low as $5.00The Chanticleer Inn, at the west end of the Columbia River Highway, was built in 1912 and predated the highway. Like many early wooden inns, it burned down, in 1930. Learn More
- Chetco River Railroad Bridge, Brookings - circa 1917As low as $5.00This long, curving trestle was built in 1917 by the California & Oregon Lumber Company, headquartered in Brookings. Learn More
- City Garage on 10th Street, Portland - 1915As low as $5.00The crew poses for a group portrait in this view of an early garage in downtown Portland. Vehicles lining the walls include a mail truck in the back left. Learn More