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.
Photograph showing trees in deep snow, taken near the summit of ridge at Cripple Creek. Written on the negative is “E301.09-O-157.” (Image note: discoloration can be seen across the center and left side of the negative).
Photograph taken from a side angle showing a pipe traveler on a 68% grade, on the east slope of Cripple Creek knoll. It is traveling along a section of pipe, and appears to be emitting steam. Several men can be seen standing at ground level next to the pipe.