West Linn
- A Gathering at Schnoerr Park - circa 1920As low as $5.00A well-dressed group poses for a portrait at Schnoerr Park, located across the Tualatin River from the town of Willamette. 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
- An Early School Bus, Sunset School, West Linn - 1904As low as $5.00Horse-drawn carriages provided the first public school transportation. This photo has been described as the first public transportation of pupils in Oregon. 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
- At the Mouth of the Tualatin - c. 1930As low as $5.00In a location that looks much the same today, a young woman poses on a rock where the Tualatin flows into the Willamette. The original for this view is a hand-colored print from a black and white photograph. 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
- Bolton and the Falls, Looking South - c. 1960As low as $15.00This 1960s aerial photo, taken as part of the early planning for Interstate 205, shows the community of Bolton, with West Linn High School to the right and Willamette Falls in the distance. Learn More
- Bolton Baseball Team - c. 1930As low as $5.00The Bolton baseball team poses for a portrait on the front steps of the old Bolton School. The coach, in the back row, is Mayor Frank Hammerle. Learn More
- Branch Electric Railway Line to Moehnke's Mill - 1900sAs low as $5.00This lumber car was part of a branch electric railway line from Willamette Falls along the river to Moehnke's Mill, two miles upstream. The boy on the car is Howard Moehnke. 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 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 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
- 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
- Capen Shoe Company Factory, Willamette - c. 1908As low as $5.00Established by 1895 by Ellery Capen and his family, their shoe factory was to be the first of many industrial employers in the new community of Willamette. Learn More
- Clowning Around at Schnoerr's Park - circa 1920As low as $5.00Schnoerr's Park was a private gathering place located across the Tualatin River from the town of Willamette, operating from about 1900 to the 1930s. Learn More
- Cow & Calves on 13th Street in Willamette - c. 1898As low as $5.00Looking north on 13th Street in Willamette, now part of West Linn, towards what's now known as Willamette Falls Drive. The cow belonged to H. T. Shipley; the house is the Leisman/Elligsen House. Learn More
- Dance Hall at Schnoerr Park, near West Linn - c. 1910As low as $5.00People are enjoying themselves at Schnoerr Park, across the Tualatin River from the Willamette neighborhood of West Linn. 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
- 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
- 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
- Fields Covered Bridge, on the Tualatin River - c. 1935As low as $5.00The last of four Fields Covered Bridges over the Tualatin River, west of Willamette. 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
- 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
- Ice Beginning to Form at the New Bolton Reservoir - c. 1916As low as $5.00This wintertime view of the newly completed Bolton Reservoir was taken by Oregon City photographer S. P. Davis as part of a series documenting the South Fork water project. Learn More
- In Front of the Old Growth Log at Schnoerr Park c 1910As low as $5.00A distinctly German looking group poses on a large log at Schnoerr's Park, located across the Tualatin from the town of Willamette. Learn More
- Interior of Station B Power Plant, Willamette Falls - 1896As low as $5.00This detailed view of Station B was created shortly after its completion in 1895. Learn More
- John Goldade's Willamette Garage - c. 1930As low as $5.00John Goldade and his wife purchased this service station at 7th Avenue and 12th Street in 1927. 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
- 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 Down Buck Street in Bolton - c. 1899As low as $5.00This photograph down Buck Street towards the Willamette River in the Bolton area of West Linn, a few years after Bolton was platted in 1896. 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 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
- Looking Over Canemah Towards the Arch Bridge - 1937As low as $5.00It's not easy to find older photos of Canemah - usually the town is in the far background of photographs taken looking upstream at Willamette Falls. Learn More
- Looking Over Oregon City Mills - circa 1891As low as $5.00This picturesque view of industry looks over the steamboat pond, with its reflections of Portland Flouring Mill Company's Old Imperial Mills building, behind the power pole, and its lower river warehouse to the left. Learn More
- Looking Over Suspension Bridge Towards Oregon City - c. 1890As low as $5.00This detailed view of the old Oregon City Suspension Bridge, built in 1888, is restored from an original glass negative made shortly after the bridge was completed. Learn More
- Looking West Across Bolton - c. 1960As low as $15.00From a series of aerial photos taken for the planning of the I205 freeway, showing a very rural-looking West Linn. Learn More
- Making Their own Fun in Willamette - 1949As low as $5.00In this 1949 snapshot, Duane Davis (holding the reins) and Jay Dunwoodie guide Clarabelle the burro down Eighth Avenue in the Willamette neighborhood of West Linn. Learn More
- Mills and Sternwheeler at Willamette Falls - c. 1915As low as $5.00There's a lot going on, and a lot of crisp detail, in this glass plate negative created by Ralph Eddy of Oregon City in about 1915. Learn More
- Moehnke's Mill and Willamette - c. 1914As low as $5.00Moehnke's sawmill was located on the Willamette River above the Falls, and produced much of the lumber used to build the town of Willamette around 1900. Learn More
- Moehnke's Sawmill near Willamette - c. 1900As low as $5.00This small sawmill was operated by the Moehnke family from 1892 through 1918. It was located on the Willamette River near the current site of the Blue Heron lagoon. Learn More
- Moving the Willamette Meteorite to the River - 1905As low as $15.00The locals have come out to supervise the moving of the meteorite, using large logs, smaller logs as rollers, and a vertical log in a hole used to winch the heavy load. Learn More
- Nearly Completed Oregon City Bridge with Scaffolding - 1922As low as $5.00The scaffolding seen here was built to apply the metal mesh and coating of gunite for the bridge. The steel structure had already been completed. Learn More
- New Construction at Paper Mills, Willamette Falls - 1906As low as $5.00This rather chaotic view shows piles of lumber, wood pulp, cordwood and rocks as construction is completed for the new building in the left foreground. Learn More
- Newly Completed Oregon City Suspension Bridge - c. 1888As low as $5.00This early view of the suspension bridge also tells us a lot about the early production of electricity at Willamette Falls. Learn More
- Oregon City Bridge from Grand Opening Program - 1922As low as $12.00This panoramic view is taken from the official program of the grand opening of the Oregon City - West Linn arched bridge in 1922. Learn More
- Oregon City Suspension Bridge - c. 1890As low as $5.00This highly detailed view, restored from the original glass negative, shows the first suspension bridge west of the Mississippi, completed in 1888. Learn More