Olaf Indahl
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A Coach Stops Across from the Old Weinhard Brewery - c. 1905As low as $5.00A four-wheeled enclosed carriage rests on a muddy Burnside Street. It appears to be a "coupe", with only forward facing seats and glass windows on the front corners. Learn More -
An Old Hunting Cabin Near Mt. Hood - c. 1905As low as $5.00This photo by photographer Olaf Indahl was taken in the Welches area, near where Indahl's family also had a cabin. Learn More -
Baker's Bridge, Across the Clackamas River - c. 1900As low as $5.00This rare early view shows the original wooden covered bridge that crossed the Clackamas River at Carver, reported to have been the longest covered bridge in Oregon at the time of its completion. Learn More -
Closset & Devers Coffee & Spices Delivery Wagon - c. 1905As low as $5.00Closset and Devers Coffees was an old Portland firm, named when Arthur Devers joined the existing company of Closset Brothers in the early 1880s. Learn More -
Delivery Cart on Burnside Street in Portland - c. 1905As low as $5.00One of a series of photos taken by Olaf Indahl on West Burnside near the sign store where he worked. The large building across the street is Weinhard's brewery. Learn More -
Forestry Building at Lewis & Clark Exposition - 1905As low as $5.00This view of the Forestry Building was taken shortly after its completion, on March 8, 1905. Behind it can be seen the Oriental Palace. Learn More -
Government Building at Lewis & Clark Exposition - 1905As low as $5.00This view shows the U. S. Government Building on its island in Guild's Lake, with the "Bridge of Nations" leading out to it in the middle right. Learn More -
Government Building from the West, Lewis & Clark Expo - 1905As low as $5.00This view benefits from its unusual vantage point - probably not one that was ever used by the Exposition's promoters. Learn More -
Government Building Military Camp, Lewis & Clark Expo - 1905As low as $5.00The Government Building hosted exhibits from many branches of the U. S. government at the Lewis and Clark Expositon - including the military. Here two types of tents fill the east lawn near the waters of Guild's Lake. Learn More -
Guild's Lake, Looking Northwest - c. 1909As low as $5.00This scenic view shows the west end of Guild's Lake in about 1909, before it was drained to create the industrial area we know today. Across a small neck of land to the right is the Willamette River. Learn More -
Houseboats at Portland's First Stockyards - c. 1905As low as $5.00Looking from the Willamette River across the houseboats to Portland's first Union Stock Yards, located in the northwest industrial area at 17th and Vaughn. Learn More -
Hunting on Mount Hood - c. 1905As low as $5.00In this companion photo to the riverside hunting photo in Related Photos below, two of the same men are making their way up a mountain path somewhere near Welches on the south side of Mt. Hood. Learn More -
Hunting on the Salmon River at Mt. Hood - c. 1905As low as $5.00This hundred-year-old photo shows three relatives of Olaf Indahl, a photographer featured on this site, from a print we are attributing to Indahl himself. Learn More -
Irvington Streetcar Number 122 - c. 1910As low as $5.00Electric streetcars first took to the streets in Portland in 1889. By the teens, there were 28 streetcar and interurban lines in the Portland area. Learn More -
Jennie Michel, Clatsop Basket Maker - c. 1900As low as $5.00Jennie Michel, also known as Lady Michel or Princess Tsin-is-tum, was born in about 1815. Her father and uncle knew Lewis and Clark. Learn More -
Looking Across Guild's Lake to the Northwest Hills - c. 1905As low as $5.00Guild's Lake, Kittredge Lake, and Doane Lake along the edge of the Willamette River all varied seasonally in depth when the rains came to Portland. Learn More -
Looking East Across the Lewis & Clark Exposition - 1905As low as $5.00This overview of the Exposition is the work of talented amateur photographer Olaf Indahl, who often captured slightly different views of the fair than those published by the promoters. Learn More -
Navy Ships in front of Old Steel Bridge, Portland - c. 1905As low as $15.00Taken upstream from its companion photo (see Related Photos below), this view shows two unidentified Navy ships resting in the waters of the Willamette in Portland. Learn More -
Olaf Indahl, Self-portrait at his Desk - c. 1905As low as $5.00An eclectic collection of artwork provides inspiration for photographer Olaf Indahl, at his desk in early twentieth-century Portland. Learn More -
Oregon Water Power & Railway Cars at Logging Camp - c. 1905As low as $5.00This rural-looking scene is likely somewhere in east Multnomah County, along the line of the O. W. P. & Ry. Company, a name that lasted for only four years in the early 1900s. Learn More -
Overlooking Guild's Lake from the Northwest Hills - c. 1903As low as $5.00Guild's Lake in northwest Portland, now drained, became famous a few years after this photo when it was chosen for the site of the 1905 Lewis & Clark Exposition. Learn More -
Sidewheeler "Olympian" in Portland Harbor - c. 1905As low as $5.00The luxury steamship "Olympian" and her near-sistership "Alaskan" were known as "Henry Villard's White Elephants". Based on designs successful in Chesapeake Bay, they were never profitable in the Northwest. Learn More -
Steamboat "Republic" on Willamette River in Portland - c. 1905As low as $5.00We know little about the Republic, a small steamboat that plied the waters of the Willamette River in the Portland area a hundred years ago. Learn More -
The German Ship Tarpenbek in Portland's Harbor - c. 1905As low as $5.00The Tarpenbek was a three-masted steel ship built in 1892 by Pickersgill and Sons of Sunderland, England, and originally named the "Naworth Castle". It was sold in 1899 to the German company Knohr and Buchard, and renamed the "Tarpenbek" at that time. Learn More -
The Lipman, Wolfe & Co. Wagon Stops on 12th Street - c. 1905As low as $5.00Lipman, Wolfe & Company was founded in Sacramento in 1850 by Arthur Wolfe and his uncle Solomon Lipman. In 1880 Wolfe moved his mercantile business to Portland. Learn More -
Three-masted Ship in Portland Harbor - c. 1905As low as $5.00An unidentified three-masted ship rests in the Portland harbor, near a series of warehouse buildings in front of a low rise. Learn More -
Train Approaching Along the Columbia River - c. 1905As low as $5.00It appears the photographer will need to move his camera pretty soon, as the steam engine approaches him somewhere along the Columbia River. Learn More -
Two Boys & their Dog in a Horse-drawn Cart - c. 1905As low as $5.00Another in a series of horse-drawn vehicles from Olaf Indahl. This one is less work-related, and shows two boys and their dog in a two-wheeled sprung cart. Learn More -
Two Women on the Salmon River - c. 1900As low as $5.00Two women dressed in white visit a scenic stretch of the Salmon River near Welches in this turn-of-the-last-century view that we're attributing to Olaf Indahl, a skilled amateur photographer. Learn More -
USS Marblehead, with Old Steel Bridge & Union Station - c. 1905As low as $5.00The USS Marblehead rests in the Willamette River, in front of the original Steel Bridge, which had a rotating center span. The Marblehead received her battle stars during the Spanish-American War, during which she helped capture Guantanamo Bay. Learn More -
West Burnside Street near 12th in Portland - c. 1900As low as $5.00Looking east on Burnside Street - the next cross street is 12th Street. The large building on the left is the Henry Weinhard Brewery. Learn More