1880s
- 1883 Astoria FireAs low as $5.00This boudoir card image by Astoria photographer Samuel B. Crow shows downtown Astoria, looking up river, in the aftermath of the devastating 1883 fire. Learn More
- A Croquet Game in Corvallis - circa 1885As low as $5.00"Modern" croquet reached England in 1850, and spread rapidly throughout the English colonies after complete croquet sets became available from manufacturers. Learn More
- A Downtown Sheridan Street Scene - 1887As low as $5.00This view of Sheridan illustrates the rough "frontier town" look of many Oregon towns in the 1880s, before the coming of electricity - or paved streets. Learn More
- A Homesteader and his Oxen - circa 1885As low as $5.00Oxen were a popular choice as draft animals for both emigrants crossing the Oregon Trail and for early settlers in Oregon. Learn More
- Astoria, Looking East - c. 1887As low as $5.00We are looking east down Commercial Street, in this detailed photo of Astoria created by Samuel Crow in about 1887. Learn More
- Astoria, Looking East - Circa 1885As low as $5.00If this view of Astoria looks familiar, it's because this was a popular vantage point for early photographers to capture an overview of this historic coastal city. Learn More
- Astoria, Oregon, After the 1883 FireAs low as $5.00Two major fires have occurred in Astoria, in 1883 and 1922. This photo shows the aftermath of the earlier 1883 fire. Learn More
- Barlow Road Tollgate No. 5 - circa 1885As low as $5.00Five tollgates were established, sequentially, along Barlow Road from 1846 to 1918. This is the last one, operating from 1883 to 1918. Learn More
- Beginning the Uppercut - circa 1885As low as $5.00This logging photo is a bit older than most, and is recreated from a boudoir card image printed and sold by Isaac G. Davidson - who at the time had arguably the largest photo business in Oregon. Learn More
- Bertha Townley, with her Doll Carriage - c. 1889As low as $5.00Bertha Townley, of Weiser, Idaho, here proudly shows off her doll and carriage in a formal portrait created in Hazeltine's Baker City, Oregon studio. Learn More
- Big Rock Cut, Above Cabinet, Northern Pacific Railroad - c. 1882As low as $5.00This view of railroad construction was captured by Davidson as Northern Pacific's transcontinental line neared completion. (It was opened in 1883.) Learn More
- Big Trees in Oregon - c. 1885As low as $5.00Oregon is and was known for its trees, and every photographer, even today, must have a few tree photos in their portfolio. Here is William Partridge's 1880s version. Learn More
- Blockhouse at Upper Cascades, Columbia River - c. 1885As low as $5.00Built in 1856, this blockhouse was only used for a few years but lasted for decades afterwards. The Cascades were a strategic military site during unrest between early settlers and the Native American inhabitants. Learn More
- Bridal Veil Bluffs, Columbia Gorge - 1880sAs low as $5.00The Bridal Veil Bluffs and the Pillars of Hercules are adjoining basalt formations in the Columbia Gorge. Learn More
- Bridal Veil Falls - 1880sAs low as $5.00Bridal Veil Falls, the only falls below the historic Columbia Gorge Scenic Highway. Learn More
- Bridal Veil, Snow Bound - c. 1885As low as $5.00The photographer's title apparently refers to the person in the cabin, rather than the train, which seems to be getting through heading up-river. Learn More
- Cape Horn - 1880sAs low as $5.00A rowboat makes its way along the edge of Cape Horn, on the Washington side of the Columbia River. Learn More
- Cascades of the Columbia and Cascade Locks - c 1885As low as $5.00We're looking over a movable fishwheel, sometimes called a fish scow, towards the Cascade Locks under construction and the town of Cascade Locks behind them. Learn More
- Castle Rock from the Oregon Side - 1880sAs low as $5.00An unusual view of Castle Rock (now Beacon Rock) from across the Columbia River. Learn More
- Clara Stearns, Only Daughter of Abigail Scott Duniway - c. 1885As low as $5.00
Shown here shortly before she died from tuberculosis in 1886, Clara Belle Duniway Stearns was the oldest child, and only daughter, of Oregon suffragette and author Abigail Scott Duniway.
Learn More - Closeup of Old Blockhouse at the Cascades - 1880sAs low as $5.00This closeup view shows how the solidly built blockhouse still persisted thirty years after it was abandoned. Learn More
- Coe Glacier at Barrett Spur, Mt. Hood - c. 1885As low as $5.00This early view about 2000 below the summit of Mt. Hood was taken by William H. Partridge, an Oregon photographer responsible for many boudoir cards - 4 1/2 by 8 inch card-mounted photos that were very popular in the 1880s. Learn More
- Crater Lake, First Photo at Water Level - c.1884As low as $5.00Cameras were large and trails down to the water at Crater Lake were scarce when Ashland photographer Charles Logan created this view in about 1884. Learn More
- Dip Netting for Lamprey at the Dalles - c. 1887As low as $5.00The lamprey is an ancient fish, which like the salmon returns from several years in the ocean to spawn in fresh-water rivers. Learn More
- Echo Bay and Falls, Columbia River - 1880sAs low as $5.00This nicely-composed photo was created by Frank J. Haynes, who though based in Dakota Territory, traveled several times to Oregon to create a series of stereoviews. 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
- Emigrants to the West - 1881As low as $5.00While the Oregon Trail provided challenge and hardship, the travelers still enjoyed their meals, especially when game was available. 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
- Father and Daughter, Astoria - 1880sAs low as $5.00Father and Daughter portrait by Samuel B. Crow of Astoria. The father looks concerned. Learn More
- First Baker City Depot - c. 1885As low as $5.00A crowd has gathered - perhaps for the arrival of a dignitary - in this early photo of the first Baker City Depot, built in about 1884, the year the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company's trains reached Baker City from the west. Learn More
- First Carload of Express Melons in Grants Pass - 1886As low as $5.00Local farmers have brought wagon loads of melons to the depot for shipment to hungry customers in the cities to the north. Despite its name, the Oregon & California Railroad shown here would not actually reach California until the following year. Learn More
- First Center Street Bridge in Salem - circa 1888As low as $5.00This was the first wagon bridge across the Willamette in Oregon. Opened in December, 1886, it unfortunately collapsed in February, 1890 during severe flooding. Learn More
- First Non-railroad Bridge Across the Willamette - circa 1888As low as $5.00A boy stands on the long ramp leading up to the original Center Street Bridge in Salem, opened in December, 1886, four months before the Morrison Street Bridge in Portland. Learn More
- First Steel Bridge, Portland - circa 1888As low as $5.00This is Portland's first steel bridge, from a photo taken shortly after its completion in 1888. It was the first railroad bridge across the Willamette in Portland. Learn More
- First Steel Bridge, Portland, Under Construction - 1888As low as $5.00This is the first Steel Bridge, after the lower deck was functional but before the upper deck was completed. Learn More
- First Street in Portland, During the Holidays - 1889As low as $5.00The December 21st, 1889 issue of The West Shore included this holiday-themed engraving of life in downtown Portland as its centerfold. Learn More
- Fish Wheel at Upper Cascades, Columbia River - c. 1885As low as $5.00Fish wheels, water-powered mechanisms that "mined" salmon, were active on the Columbia River from 1879 through 1934. Learn More
- Fish Wheel, Near Bradford's Island, Columbia River - c. 1880As low as $5.00This photo shows an early fish wheel on the Columbia River, near Bradford's Island, which is now submerged behind Bonneville Dam. Learn More
- Floating Ice, Takou Inlet - 1887As low as $5.00This Partridge boudoir view shows Takou inlet, near Juneu, a tourist destination as early as the 1890s. Learn More
- Fort Canby, Showing Cannonballs - c. 1885As low as $5.00This view of Fort Canby in southern Washington gets close enough to show an intriguing detail -- cannonballs used as yard ornaments. Learn More
- Fort Canby, Washington Territory - 1880sAs low as $5.00Fort Canby at Cape Disappointment, on the Washington Territory side of the mouth of the Columbia River. Learn More
- Good Samaritan Hospital, Portland - c. 1881As low as $5.00Good Samaritan Hospital opened its doors in October, 1875, in this building on the same location at NW 23rd and Marshall in northwest Portland where the hospital continues today. Learn More
- Goose, Arikara Scout, with Custer at Little Bighorn - circa 1885As low as $5.00Goose was one of about fifty Native American scouts, most from the Arikara tribe, who served with the Seventh Cavalry at the time of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Learn More
- Grandpa & Grandma Munra at Bonneville Eating House - 1888As low as $5.00Katherine and Selkirk Munra were known as Grandma and Grandpa Munra when they ran the Bonneville Eating House, along the tracks of the O R & N near the current site of the Bonneville Dam. Learn More
- Hallett's Hades, Midway Gibraltar Rock - c. 1880As low as $5.00Hallett's Hades was a point about 12 miles west of The Dalles, where the railroad tracks passed close to the edge of a cliff, part of which had been blown off in their construction. Learn More
- Hamlin Block, SW Corner of Main & Central, Medford - 1888As low as $5.00Medford began in 1883 when the Oregon & California Railroad arrived, and four property owners deeded parts of their land for a depot and surrounding town. A number of buildings were erected in 1884, including the Palmer-Medynski building on the left (which still stands today). Learn More
- Harbor of Sitka - 1886As low as $5.00The Harbor of Sitka, Alaska, in 1886, showing the steamship dock and Sitka Sound. Learn More
- High Fashion in Baker City - circa 1888As low as $5.00There was plenty of fashion in Baker City in the 1880s, and Martin Hazeltine, the photographer, was sophisticated enough to capture it for us. Learn More
- Hop Fields Near Tacoma - c. 1885As low as $5.00This view, recreated from an 1880s boudoir card, shows a large hop farm located somewhere near Tacoma. Learn More
- Hospital at Fort Klamath - 1888As low as $5.00This rare photo shows the Hospital at Fort Klamath two years before the fort was closed in 1890. From a boudoir card photo by David C. Herrin, who at that time had his studio in Medford. Learn More