OHS Digital Collections

Coll784_b01f01_002
Item
1890 – 1920?

Part of Robertson, Burns, and Failing families papers

Photograph of Mary Caroline Wilson Burns, wife of Walter John Burns. She is wearing a dress and decorative hat, and is looking away from the camera.

Aune Studio (Portland, Or.)

Walter John Burns

Coll784_b01f10_001
Item
1895 – 1915?

Part of Robertson, Burns, and Failing families papers

Oval photograph of Walter John Burns, wearing a suit and facing towards the camera.

Aune Studio (Portland, Or.)

Emma Ruggles Corbett

Coll784_b02f04_001
Item
1900 – 1930?

Part of Robertson, Burns, and Failing families papers

Photograph of Emma (Ruggles) Corbett, second wife of Henry Winslow Corbett. She is seated and looking down towards her lap.

Henry Winslow Corbett

Coll784_b02f05_001
Item
1880?

Part of Robertson, Burns, and Failing families papers

Photograph of Henry Winslow Corbett, wearing a suit and bow tie.

Abell, Frank G., 1844-1910

Caroline (Flanders) Couch with Caroline (Couch) Wilson and Mary Caroline (Wilson) Burns

Coll784_b02f11_001
Item
1882?

Part of Robertson, Burns, and Failing families papers

Photograph showing Caroline Flanders Couch, her daughter, Caroline (Couch) Wilson, and grand-daughter Mary Caroline (Wilson) Burns. Georgina Burns is seated on her mother's lap. Note: photograph identifies middle woman as Clementine Lewis, but notes "should have been grandma Wilson."

Abell, Frank G., 1844-1910

Caroline Elizabeth (Couch) Wilson and Anita Burns Davis

Coll784_b02f20_001
Item
1892?

Part of Robertson, Burns, and Failing families papers

Photograph showing Caroline Elizabeth Wilson with her grand-daughter Anita Burns Davis.

Wedding of Mary Couch Robertson and Donald Butler

Coll784_b02f29_001
Item
1940-06-05

Part of Robertson, Burns, and Failing families papers

Mary Couch Robertson and Donald Butler standing together on the occasion of their wedding in 1940

John Robertson Wood with dog

Coll784_b03f07_001
Item
1900?

Part of Robertson, Burns, and Failing families papers

John Robertson Wood with dog, in front of his home. A church can be seen in the background.

Kathleen (Burns) Robertson and daughter Mary Couch Robertson

Coll784_b03f18_001
Item
1925?

Part of Robertson, Burns, and Failing families papers

Photograph showing Kathleen Burns Robertson seated next to her daughter, Mary Couch Robertson.

Butterworth, Charles

Mary Corbett Robertson

Coll784_b06f01_001
Item
1907?

Part of Robertson, Burns, and Failing families papers

Photograph showing Mary Corbett Robertson, seated, wearing a dress and hat.

Mary Freeland (Corbett) Robertson

Coll784_b06f04_001
Item
1870?

Part of Robertson, Burns, and Failing families papers

Photograph showing Mary Freeland (Corbett) Robertson, wife of Thomas Robertson (1817-1900). She is standing in front of a decorative background, with her arm resting on a pillar.

Sarah Adams (Wood) Robertson on her wedding day

Coll784_b06f07_001
Item
1881

Part of Robertson, Burns, and Failing families papers

Photograph showing Sarah Adams (Wood) Robertson on the occasion of her wedding to William Edie Robertson in 1881.

Abell, Frank G., 1844-1910

Thomas Robertson

Coll784_b06f16_001
Item
1896?

Part of Robertson, Burns, and Failing families papers

Photograph showing Thomas Robertson (1881-1924) seated in front of a decorative background.

Aune Studio (Portland, Or.)

William Edie Robertson

Coll784_b07f08_001
Item
1880?

Part of Robertson, Burns, and Failing families papers

Photograph of William Edie Robertson wearing a suit and tie.

Abell, Frank G., 1844-1910

Henrietta Chase Failing

Coll799_b01f20_001
Item
1898?

Part of James F. Failing family papers

Photograph of Henrietta Chase Failing as a child, daughter of James F. Failing and Jane (Conner) Failing. She is smiling and looking towards her right.

Aune Studio (Portland, Or.)

Kate Whittlesey Failing

Coll799_b03f14_001
Item
1900?

Part of James F. Failing family papers

Photograph of Kate Whittlesey Failing, seated and holding a book while facing away from the camera. Long braids can be seen along her back.

Hyland (Photographer)

James F. Failing

Coll799_b04f02_001
Item
1890 – 1910?

Part of James F. Failing family papers

Photograph James Frederick Failing, wearing a suit, and with a long beard.

Aune Studio (Portland, Or.)

James F. Failing and Jane (Conner) Failing and children

Coll799_b04f03_001
Item
1899?

Part of James F. Failing family papers

Photograph of James F. Failing with his wife, Jane (Conner) Failing, and their children: Edward Josiah, Kate Whittlesey, John Conner, Henrietta Chase, and Frederick Ellison.

Aune Studio (Portland, Or.)

Portland General Electric Photograph Collection

Org. Lot 151
Collection
1880 - 1965

Negatives documenting company activities, including electrical infrastructure, employees, power generation and distribution throughout Portland, the Willamette Valley and the Oregon Cascade Range. Additional general images include streetcars and trains, street lighting, power line installation, Rose Festival floats, office buildings, car barns and bridges. Of particular note are dam building projects at Bull Run and along the Clackamas River (1910-1930), and early electric stations in Oregon City at Willamette Falls.

Portland General Electric Company

Homer Welch, KGW

OrgLot1275_B1_u_7096
Item
1930-1970?

Part of Gilliam Portrait Studio and Camera Shop negatives

Negative of a photographic postcard showing a posed photograph of a man. He wears a suit and looks off to the right. Handwritten note on envelope reads, "Homer Welch, KGW."

Brad Reynolds, KGW

OrgLot1275_B1_u_7097
Item
1930-1970?

Part of Gilliam Portrait Studio and Camera Shop negatives

Negative of a photographic postcard showing a posed photograph of a man sitting at a microphone labeled KGW / NBC. He smiles and looks off to the left. Handwritten note on envelope reads, "Brad Reynolds, KGW."

Women painting crew at Kaiser Company, Swan Island

OrgLot1284_0786_3
Item
1943-04-20

Part of Al Monner news negatives

A crew of women painters at Kaiser Company, Swan Island. The group is posing in two rows, with some workers holding paint buckets and wearing hard hats (negative 3 of 4).