Photograph showing men standing on a wooden platform looking at the camera. On top of the platform is a makeshift ladder leading to a pulley and rope. Written on the negative is “E301.09-O-239” and “R-8.”
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.