Mills & Factories
- 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
- Albany Creamery - Circa 1898As low as $5.00Three horse-drawn carts have arrived at the Albany Creamery to unload their cans of cream. The white-garbed employees stand together in front, with their manager, Elmer J. Seely on our right. 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
- 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
- Cans of Salmon, Warren Packing Co., Cathlamet - c. 1900As low as $5.00Several hundred thousand cans of salmon stand ready for shipment in the Warren cannery in Cathlamet, Washington. 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Lumber Mill at Willamette Falls - 1870sAs low as $5.00A small early sawmill occupies the northern end of Willamette Falls, with the newly completed locks visible on the far side. 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
- Falls of the Willamette River at Oregon City - 1887As low as $15.00This exaggerated engraving of Willamette Falls was published in The West Shore magazine in Portland in August of 1887. Learn More
- First Iron Furnace in Oswego - c. 1866As low as $5.00This is probably the earliest photo of the first Oswego iron furnace, taken in 1866 - a year before Carleton Watkins came from California to create his series of views. Learn More
- Fischer's Flouring Mill, Silverton, Oregon - 1904As low as $5.00Fischer's Flouring Mill was central to the history and growth of Silverton. Most of the building shown here in 1904 were purchased by Henry Fischer from the Oregon Milling Company in 1898. Learn More
- Golden Rule Grocery, Auto Camp and Garage, Cottage Grove - c. 1925As low as $5.00We have a number of photos taken by Frank Patterson, but only a few are recreated from their original glass negatives. While cellulose negatives were widely used in 1925, some traditionalist professional photographers preferred the qualities only available by using glass. Learn More
- Grist Mill at White River Falls - c. 1895As low as $5.00We are estimating the date of this photo, as photographer Hazeltine worked in Baker City from 1888 to 1903. 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
- Interior of Bandon, Oregon Creamery - circa 1915As low as $5.00While the original photo has written on its back, "Bandon, Ore., Creamery" we are not sure if this was the creamery named "Bandon Creamery", as there were many creameries in Bandon at that time. 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
- Large Hop Dryers Near Tacoma - c. 1885As low as $5.00This large-scale hop drying operation was photographed by Urban Hadley in the 1880s. By this time U.S. hop productions was shifting from New York to the Pacific Northwest. 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 Below Willamette Falls Locks - c. 1905As low as $5.00This classic view looks upstream below the locks and above them, Willamette Falls. 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 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
- Mill Building in Ashland, Oregon - c. 1898As low as $5.00"Ashland Mills" on the building refers to the original name of the town, rather than to this particular mill. Learn More
- Mills & McLoughlin House at Willamette Falls - 1867As low as $5.00This 1867 view of the mills at Willamette Falls is part of a series of stereoviews created by Carleton Watkins during his visit to Oregon that year. Learn More
- Mills & Power Stations at Willamette Falls - 1918As low as $5.00Part of a set of photos of the interior of the woolen mills at the falls, this view was titled "Source of Power, Oregon City Woolen Mills". 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
- 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
- Oregon City Basin with Shoofly and Alice - c. 1873As low as $5.00The Shoo-fly and the Alice were two of the last sternwheelers to be built above the Falls at Canemah, completed at about the time of the opening of the Willamette Falls Locks in 1873. Learn More
- Oregon City from the Bluff, Main St. Between 2nd & 3rd - 1874As low as $5.00This detailed early photo provides a good view of the mills in Oregon City, Willamette Falls, and the newly built locks on the other side of the river. Learn More
- Oregon City Woolen Mills - c. 1893As low as $5.00This highly detailed view of the woolen mills and other structures on both sides of the river lends itself to larger format prints. Learn More
- Oregon City Woolen Mills Covered in Ivy - 1926As low as $5.00By 1926 the Oregon City Woolen Mills' brick walls were completely covered in ivy, which was kept carefully trimmed around windows and doors and along the roofline. Learn More
- Oregon City Woolen Mills with New Station B - c. 1895As low as $5.00This sharp view of the Oregon City Woolen Mills is notable for two non-woolen mill details - the smaller initial Station B power plant, and the elaborate signage on Charman's store. Learn More
- Oregon Milling Co., Mill B, Silverton - circa 1900As low as $5.00This flour mill in Silverton was sold by Oregon Milling Co. to Fischer's Flouring Mill in 1898, but we are dating the photo to circa 1900. Learn More
- Overview of a Small Saw Mill near Sandy - c. 1910As low as $5.00The original caption for this photo called it a "Typical Sandy Saw Mill", and it's likely there were a number of small, homestead-based mills like it in the Sandy area. Learn More
- Panorama of Hawley Pulp and Paper Mills - c. 1925As low as $30.00This very clear panorama of the Oregon City mills at Willamette Falls lends itself to larger prints; you'll notice that we offer it in sizes up to ten feet wide. Learn More
- Pulp & Paper Mills at Willamette Falls - 1929As low as $5.00Prominent in this view of paper mills on both sides of the Willamette are the huge stacks of paper pulp, colored yellow in this 1929 hand-tinted glass slide. Learn More
- Rebuilding After the 1890 Flood, Willamette FallsAs low as $5.00The large flood of 1890 caused extensive damage to structures on both sides of the Willamette River at the Falls. In the foreground we see workers rebuilding the almost new mills on the west side. Learn More
- Richard C. Finley Flour Mill, Established 1848As low as $5.00This picturesque gristmill was built by Richard Finley on the falls below present-day McKercher Park on the Calapooia River, near Brownsville, in Linn County. Learn More
- Rose City Cabinet Works, Portland - c. 1924As low as $5.00Drive belts run from a central electric motor to power the tools used to make cabinets in this northeast Portland shop at 1454 Sandy Blvd. Learn More
- Salmon Ready for Canning, Cathlamet - c. 1900As low as $5.00There are a number of postcards and stereoviews showing similar scenes, but this image is recreated from a larger print by photographer John F. Ford. Learn More
- Sawmill Gang and Mill at Round Lake - c. 1905As low as $5.00The muddy yard hints at the Pacific Northwest location of this small mill near Round Lake, north of Camas, Washington in Clark County. The term "gang" comes from the handwritten title on the original photo. Learn More
- Sinking of the Salem at 4th St. Dock, Oregon City - 1892As low as $5.00This crisp photo shows the docks, a sternwheeler, paper mills on the west side of the river, and the results of an early mishap caused by venturing too close to Willamette Falls. Learn More
- Smelting Furnace, Oswego Iron Works - 1867As low as $5.00A view from the back of the first Oswego Iron Smelter captures a moving goat or two browsing the refuse pile. Learn More
- Spinning Room, Oregon City Woolen Mills - 1918As low as $5.00Wool that has been repeatedly carded is called roving. Loosely wound on spools it becomes the input for spinning. Learn More