Locks
- Bailey Gatzert in Cascade Locks - 1904As low as $5.00The Cascade Locks were completed in 1896, eight years before this photo was taken by Benjamin A. Gifford. Learn More
- Building the Dalles - Celilo Canal - 1910As low as $5.00The Dalles-Celilo canal, over eight miles long, begins about three miles upriver from The Dalles. Its construction lasted from 1905 through 1915. 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
- Cascades of the Columbia and Cascade Locks - c. 1921As low as $5.00Completed in 1896, Cascade Locks allowed river traffic to bypass the Columbia River Cascades until they were submerged in 1938, replaced by Bonneville Lock and Dam. 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
- Government Locks at the Cascades, Columbia River - c. 1890As low as $5.00It took 18 years to build these locks, which were completed in 1896. They operated for forty years, until being submerged by Bonneville Dam in 1938. 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 North over the Town of Cascade Locks - c. 1900As low as $5.00This highly-detailed turn-of-the-last-century photo shows a residential area of Cascade Locks, the locks, and the river and hills to the north. Learn More
- Lower Entrance to Celilo Locks - 1936As low as $5.00A lot of early photographers were interested in the interplay between nature and man-made construction projects, such as bridges, locks and railroads. This view shows us the lower end of Celilo Locks. Learn More
- Opening of Cascade Locks - 1896As low as $5.00This photo was taken to celebrate the opening of the Cascade Locks on November 5, 1896. Learn More
- Opening the Columbia, Canal & Locks at the Cascades - 1889As low as $5.00This 1889 engraving shows the construction of the Cascade Locks and Canal, which took 20 years to complete, finally opening in 1896. 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
- Steamer "Gov. Grover" in Willamette Falls Locks - 1873As low as $5.00This early view shows both the locks and the steamboat Governor Grover the year they were completed. Learn More
- Steamer Beaver Descending West Linn Locks - 1929As low as $5.00This photo gives us a great view of both a crowd of passengers on the sternwheeler Beaver, and also the original wooden lock gates on one of four chambers of the Willamette Falls Locks. Learn More
- Sternwheeler Bailey Gatzert in Cascade Locks - 1911As low as $5.00This view is representative of many photos taken of early 20th century excursions on the Columbia River on the Bailey Gatzert. Learn More
- Sternwheeler N. R. Lang in Willamette Falls Locks - c. 1910As low as $15.00We're looking downstream at the Willamette Locks, and have a good view of both the two sternwheelers and many of the buildings on the river side of locks. Learn More
- Sternwheeler Ruth in Willamette Falls Locks c. 1897As low as $5.00By 1897, the pulp and paper mill at Willamette Falls was booming, as can be seen in the background of this photo of the steamer Ruth in the locks. Learn More
- The Modoc Going Up Willamette Falls Locks - 1903As low as $5.00Looking down towards the falls from the west side we can see a lock tender's residence, the locks, mills on both sides of the river, and Station A through the mist in the far center. Learn More
- Three Levels of Steamboats at Willamette Falls - 1874As low as $5.00This rare early photograph was taken shortly after the locks were opened in 1873, and shows steamboats in the upper river, lower river, and locks. Learn More
- Upper Basin, Willamette Falls Locks - c. 1910As low as $5.00Looking upstream just above the locks themselves, we see log rafts waiting their turn to travel through the locks on their way to sawmills further down the river. Learn More
- Upper End of Willamette Falls Locks - c. 1890As low as $5.00This Crawford stereoview shows the locks about twenty years after their construction, looking downstream. By this time the rocky island to their right was completely covered by industries that still exist today - a paper mill and an electric plant. Learn More
- Upper Entrance to the Dalles - Celilo Canal - 1910As low as $5.00This is the upper entrance of the eight-mile-long Dalles-Celilo Canal, about halfway through its construction process. Learn More
- Willamette Falls and Locks - c. 1880As low as $5.00Opened in 1873, by 1880 the locks still hosted only a few wooden frame buildings, mostly for the use of the lock-keepers and their families. The town of Canemah is visible in the distance beyond the falls. Learn More
- Willamette Falls and Locks - circa 1888As low as $5.00This photo looking upstream from below the Falls was probably taken from the Oregon City suspension bridge, completed in 1888. Learn More
- Willamette Falls Locks - Circa 1875As low as $5.00An early view of the Willamette Falls locks, opened January 1, 1873. Learn More
- Willamette Falls Locks - circa 1880As low as $5.00This view is reproduced from a boudoir card published by Isaac G. Davidson in about 1880, a few years after the locks were opened. The locks themselves are not a lot different than they are today. Learn More
- Willamette Falls Locks at High Water - 1923As low as $5.00Shortly after the Arch Bridge was completed, the Willamette River experienced one of its periodic floods. Here we see high water flowing through (over) the locks on the West Linn side of Willamette Falls. Learn More
- Willamette Falls Mills and Locks, Looking Downstream - c. 1908As low as $5.00This highly detailed view of the west side of the Willamette River at the Falls was created by Howard Tibbitts, a San Francisco based photographer. Learn More
- Willamette Falls, from Upper End of Locks - 1890sAs low as $5.00A different view of the falls, taken from the diversion area at the upper end of the locks. Learn More
- Work Crew at Willamette Falls Locks - 1890sAs low as $5.00The crew lines up on the side of the locks facing the river, as water seeps through from the full chamber behind them. Learn More