Oregon City
- 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
- A Walk to Canemah, West Side Mills in Background - 1895As low as $5.00A large group of Willamette Falls area young people stop for a photo on a Sunday afternoon, on a walk to Canemah. They were probably going to visit the park at the end of the trolley line. 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
- Along the Willamette River, Oregon City - 1940As low as $5.00This well-composed view shows the concrete Pacific Highway entering Oregon City. Then a national highway, 99E was removed from the federal system in 1972. Learn More
- Applying Gunite, Oregon City Bridge Construction - 1922As low as $5.00The Oregon City Bridge is the only Oregon bridge to be encased in gunite, which protects its steel frame from corrosive sulfur dioxide fumes from the paper mills to the south of the bridge. Learn More
- Arch Bridge from Below - c. 1950As low as $5.00This deceptively simple view from below shows the Arch Bridge at about the age of thirty. Learn More
- Arch Bridge Vista, Oregon City - c. 1950As low as $5.00A striking view that contrasts the natural landscape with the built structure of the bridge, taken by photographer Ralph Eddy near the end of his professional career. Learn More
- Barge Used for Oregon City Bridge Construction - 1922As low as $5.00This close-up view shows us many of the details of the barge with a steam donkey powered crane used to build the Oregon City Arch Bridge. Learn More
- Below Station A at Willamette Falls - 1895As low as $5.00This unusual view shows Station A, the first powerhouse used for the first long-distance transmission of electrical power in the United States. Transmission lines went 14 miles, from the Falls to Portland. Learn More
- Bertilson Barber Shop, 7th & Water, Oregon City - 1947As low as $5.00This great view of Oregon City daily life was taken by Eddy toward the end of his career, using his postcard camera. Ole Bertilson is the barber on the right. Learn More
- Blacksmith Shop at 4th and Main, Oregon City - circa 1905As low as $5.00Brothers Owen G. Thomas (at the forge) and Everet Thomas (at the right) are identified on our original photo by arrows. The previous owner locates the shop at 4th and Main, and indeed, a Sanborn insurance map from 1900 shows a blacksmith shop on 4th, on the same block as the Charman Brothers Block / Electric Hotel. Learn More
- Bringing Home the Hay from Park Place - 1923As low as $5.00Cars of this era needed to be versatile, as this farmer demonstrates for us in spades. 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 Station B Electric Plant at Willamette Falls - 1895As low as $5.00The concrete foundation for the new Station B Electric Plant on the west bank at the Falls is in progress in this unusual view of its initial construction. Learn More
- Building the Temporary Bridge at Willamette Falls - 1921As low as $5.00It's said that this temporary footbridge was built in one day, which may be a slight exaggeration, but it clearly went up quickly. 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
- 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
- Charman Brothers Block, Oregon City - c. 1895As low as $5.00Built in 1889 by brothers T. L. and Elmer E. Charman, the Charman Bros. Block was for years the grand building of Main Street in Oregon City. Learn More
- Cleaning Up After the 1890 Flood, Oregon CityAs low as $5.00Though not as high in 1861, the flood of 1890 caused extensive damage to buildings on both sides of the Willamette River. Learn More
- Concrete Workers, Oregon City - c. 1915As low as $5.00From the early part of Ralph Eddy's career, this image is restored and printed from his original glass negative. Learn More
- Construction Crew, South Side of Willamette Falls - c. 1890As low as $5.00This early view of construction on the south side of the falls shows a variety of activities going on. Learn More
- Cutting Room, Oregon City Woolen Mills - 1918As low as $5.00While specializing in blankets, Oregon City Woolen Mills also made socks,coats and other clothing. Learn More
- Dedication Crowd, Oregon City Bridge Opening - 1922As low as $5.00On December 28, 1922, the new Arch Bridge across the Willamette River between Oregon City and West Linn was dedicated. Photographer Ralph Eddy captures the view from below. Learn More
- Dr. John McLoughlin - c. 1854As low as $5.00Dr. John McLoughlin, often called "The Father of Oregon", needs little introduction to history buffs. The Canadian-born Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver, he resigned in 1846 and moved to Oregon City where he became an American citizen. Learn More
- Dye House, Oregon City Woolen Mills - 1918As low as $5.00Dye houses were more than just "rooms" in a woolen mill; they were often built as separate buildings due to the fire hazard from the fully dried wool prepared for dying. Learn More
- Early Reddaway's Truck Line Truck - c. 1919As low as $5.00This photo of an early Reddaway truck was taken shortly after the company was founded in 1919, by the Reddaway family of Oregon City. Learn More
- Early West Linn from Oregon City Bluffs - c. 1895As low as $5.00Two couples pose for a portrait at the top of the bluff in Oregon City, with the suspension bridge and Willamette River in the background. Learn More
- Elevator and Lamp Post, Oregon City - c. 1950As low as $5.00Created as part of a series of Oregon City vignettes by Ralph Eddy, using his new 35mm camera as he neared the end of his professional career. Learn More
- Elmer E. Charman, Future Oregon City Businessman - c. 1869As low as $5.00Elmer E. Charman, taken at about the time of his father's death in the late 1860s. Learn More
- Elmer E. Charman, Possible Graduation Photo - c. 1881As low as $5.00This is likely a graduation photo for Elmer Ellsworth Charman, taken when he graduated from Oregon State Agricultural College in Corvallis in 1881, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Learn More
- Factories at Willamette Falls, Engraving - c. 1890As low as $5.00This engraving is from The West Shore, an illustrated magazine published in Portland from 1875 through 1891. Many of its articles were profiles of towns throughout the Pacific Northwest. Learn More
- First Communion - c. 1915As low as $5.00There are a lot of professional photos of girls' first communions. This one, taken by Preston Hart in Oregon City, is especially appealing in its simplicity, as well as its lighting. Learn More
- Fishing Below Willamette Falls (Tinted) - circa 1895As low as $5.00This idyllic view of fishing below the Falls is recreated from a hand-tinted print of a black and white (actually sepia tone) photo. Learn More
- George Harding House, Oregon City - 1900sAs low as $5.00This impressive brick house on Main Street in Oregon City was built by Lafayette Cartee in about 1859. Learn More
- Hawley Pulp & Paper Co., Mill A - 1910sAs low as $5.00The Hawley mill opened 1909, and operated until 1948, when it was sold and became Publisher's Paper Company. Learn More
- Hawley Pulp & Paper Co., Mills B and C - 1910sAs low as $5.00Looking downstream towards Hawley's Mills B and C, with the woolen mill building visible between them. Learn More
- High Wheeler on West End of Oregon City Bridge - c. 1895As low as $5.00A young man poses with his high wheeler bicycle on the west end of the old Oregon City suspension bridge - the original "bridge to nowhere". Learn More
- L. Adams Department Store, Oregon City - c. 1912As low as $5.00If it looks like a church, that's because the building started out as a the Methodist Episcopal Church. Learn More
- Lamprey Eels at Willamette Falls - 1913As low as $5.00Lamprey eels are actually a fish, not an eel. Older than salmon, they also migrate to the ocean and return to Northwest rivers to spawn. Learn More
- Laying Water Pipes down 6th Street, Oregon City - c. 1914As low as $5.00A ten-inch water main for West Linn is already in the trench, and pipe is being distributed to add a six-inch line to power the new municipal elevator along the bluff in Oregon City. Learn More
- Leonard (T. L.) Charman, Possible Graduation Photo - c. 1881As low as $5.00This is likely a graduation photo for Thomas Leonard Charman, taken when he graduated from Oregon State Agricultural College in 1881, with a Bachelor of Science degree. Learn More
- Liberty Temple & Elevator, Oregon City - c. 1918As low as $5.00During World War I, Liberty Temples were built in many cities as a place for patriotic rallies and headquarters for the Third Liberty Loan Drive, which helped fund the war. Learn More
- Liberty Theater, Oregon City, with Owner William Long - 1926As low as $5.00The Liberty Theater was the second Oregon City Theater opened by William Long, after the Star Theater which began in 1913. It was the fourth theater in Oregon City. Learn More
- Loading Paper on a Barge, Crown-Willamette Paper Company - c. 1920As low as $5.00An unusual vantage point for a photo of Crown-Willamette Paper Company gives us a good view of a crew loading paper on a barge, using hand-trucks. Learn More
- Log Rafts Above Suspension Bridge, Willamette Falls - 1897As low as $5.00For decades, much of the traffic through Willamette Falls Locks was log rafts, moving downstream to Portland area sawmills, and often beyond. Learn More
- Log Rafts Below Willamette Falls Locks - c. 1905As low as $5.00This classic view looks upstream below the locks and above them, Willamette Falls. Learn More
- Logs on the Willamette, Looking Towards Pete's Mountain - c. 1908As low as $5.00This image of log rafts on the Willamette, above the Falls, gives us an idea of how many logs were taken downstream from forests in the upper Willamette Valley. Learn More
- Looking Downstream Towards the New Oregon City Bridge - c. 1888As low as $5.00We can date this image by noting the presence of the suspension bridge, opened in 1888, and the absence of many paper mill buildings on the west shore, which were built shortly after the bridge was finished. Learn More
- Looking North Down 7th Street, Oregon City - c.1895As low as $5.00This photo gives us a good view of Seventh Street, looking downhill towards the river. A number of these buildings still stand today. Learn More
- Looking Northeast from the Top of 4th Street Stairs, Oregon City - 1893As low as $5.00A number of overview photos of Oregon City were taken from the "back side", due to great vantage points from the bluffs behind the town. Learn More