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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

Flume, Silverton, Oregon

A raised wooden flume runs across a field at a mint farm in Silverton, Oregon. Water flows from the flume into an irrigation ditch.

Drake, June D., 1880-1969

Hops fields, Silverton, Oregon

A view of a farm in the Silverton, Oregon area with fields of hops growing on trellises. A farmhouse and multiple outbuildings can be seen. Two of the buildings have what appears to be a raised flume running between them. One of the buildings has the number "1904" on it.

Drake, June D., 1880-1969