Photograph showing a three-story brick building, possibly at 405 Northwest Couch in Portland. On the building are two signs reading “New Home of R. E. Douglas Inc. / Acme Beer Distributors.” Lower on the building are two signs in Chinese.

Photograph showing an addition under construction at the Montgomery Ward warehouse in Portland in March 1936. A cropped version of this photograph was published on Page 5, Section 2, of the Oregon Journal on Sunday, March 29, 1936, under the headline “Pouring Third Floor Block at Ward’s.” The photograph had the following caption: “Building activity is at high gear on this $750,000 project at Montgomery Ward & Co. mail order and retail center at N. W. 27th avenue and Vaughn Street, as 150 men push the nine-story addition into the air.” The photograph accompanied a story headlined “Montgomery Ward Project On Schedule.” Image note: The text “Mont - Ward 3/26/36” is written on the negative and is faintly visible in the lower right corner of the image.

Photograph showing a Portland Bottling Co. truck parked outside the company’s building at 1271 North Williams Avenue in Portland. Signs on the building read (from left): “For the 7 Hang Overs”; “Home of 7UP”; “Takes the Ouch out of Grouch”; “Portland Bottling Co.” Image note: Photograph shows discoloration due to deterioration of the negative.

Photograph showing two vehicles parked outside the Frank Fink Company warehouse at 1310 Southeast Union Avenue (now Southeast Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard) in Portland. On the side of the building are signs reading “Best Foods,” “Frank Fink Company / Food Distributors; and Nucoa. Next to a loading bay is a sign reading “Frank Fink Company / Distributors of Best Foods Products / Borden’s Cheese / Blue Moon Spreads.” This building is also shown in image No. 372A1215, when it was the Hickman Products Company Ltd. warehouse. Image note: Photograph shows discoloration due to deterioration of the negative.

Photograph showing employees posing with a row of trucks outside the Portland Bottling Co. at 1271 North Williams Avenue in Portland.

Photograph showing the exterior of the Farmers Co-operative Market building in Portland on Southwest Yamhill Street between 3rd and 4th avenues. Pedestrians are passing the building at right, and a line of cars is parked next to it at left. See related image No. 372A1206.

Photograph showing the exterior of the Empire Drugs store on West Burnside Street at Northwest 23rd Avenue in Portland. A sign on the corner of the building reads “Empire Drugs / Fountain / No. 1.”

Photograph showing the exterior of theFarmers Co-operative Market building in Portland on Southwest Yamhill Street between 3rd and 4th avenues. Cars and pedestrians are passing the building in the foreground. See related image No. 372A1205.

Photograph showing an unidentified man, possibly the proprietor, posing outside the door of Fay Drugs at Northeast 30th Avenue and Northeast Killingsworth Street in Portland. The store is in a single-story brick building.

Photograph showing two unidentified men and a parked vehicle outside the Hickman Products Ltd. Company warehouse at at 1310 Southeast Union Avenue (now Southeast Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard) in Portland. This building is also shown in image No. 372A1200, when it was the Frank Fink Company warehouse.

Photograph showing the exterior of a warehouse. A sign on the front of the building reads “Ballif Distributing Company.” The street number over the door is 522.

Photograph showing a small corner building with signs for a lunch counter and a barber shop. The street numbers 536 and 534 are visible above the businesses’ doors. Signs for the Rowe Plumbing Company (center) and a theater (right) are visible on buildings in the background.

Photograph showing a vacant grocery store at the corner of Southeast Grand Avenue and Southeast Washington Street in Portland. Painted in the window are the words “MOVED ONE BLOCK SOUTH.”

Photograph showing a two-story house with a fenced yard on a corner lot on Southeast Sixth Avenue, and Washington St. in Portland (today 610 SE 6TH AVE). Cars are parked along the cross street, which is SE Washington St.. Image note: Negative damage at bottom.