Photograph showing a timber raft and tugboat near a pier on the Willamette River in Portland. In the background at left is the Steel Bridge. Image note: Photograph shows discoloration due to deterioration of the negative.

Photograph showing two boats with a timber raft on the Willamette River near the Steel Bridge in Portland. At center is a ship moored at a loading pier. In the distance are the open bascules of the Burnside Bridge.

Photograph of a boat sailing east on the Columbia River. Beacon Rock is visible on the left. Also see image No. 371N5165.

Photograph of an unidentified person driving a motor boat on the Willamette River in Portland. The Broadway Bridge is in the background. Image note: Photograph shows discoloration due to deterioration of the negative.

Photograph of unidentified people in a motorboat on the Willamette River in Portland. The Ross Island Bridge is in the background.

Photograph of two unidentified men on a boat flying a pennant, probably a Portland Yacht Club pennant. The number “7 II G” is visible on the side of the boat. Image note: Negative damage at bottom of image.

Photograph of an unidentified man driving a motorboat on the Willamette River near the 1905 Morrison Bridge in Portland. On the side of the boat is the name “Bad Girl” and the number “R-15.”

Photograph of an unidentified person driving a motorboat on the Willamette River in Portland. The 1905 Morrison Bridge is in the background. The name “Laddie” is visible on the side of the boat.

Photograph of people driving speedboats on the Willamette River in Portland. The 1905 Morrison Bridge is in the background. The name “O MY” is visible on the boat at right; the boat is also pictured in image No. 371N5173.

Photograph of speedboats on the Willamette River in Portland. The Broadway Bridge is in the background.

Photograph of speedboats on the Willamette River near the Steel Bridge in Portland. Spectators are watching from the bridge. The boat at center has the name “Brant No. 1” on the side.

Photograph showing a vessel sailing into the boathouse of the W. H. & E. Von Der Werth boat building company on the Willamette River at the foot of East Morrison Street in Portland. The Morrison Bridge is partially visible in the background. Image note: Light leak on negative.

Photograph showing unidentified people aboard a U. S. Coast Guard motorboat. Written on the negative sleeve is the following unverified text: “Point Adams Lifeguard Station / ‘New motorboat of lifeguard in which Bjelland and his men went out in the gale to the rescue of the Floridian’ / 10/22/1934.” “Bjelland” probably refers to Lars Bjelland, a Coast Guardsman at the Point Adams station. The caption may refer to a storm that occurred the weekend of October 21-22, 1934, which damaged the steamship Floridian. Also see image Nos. 371N0241, 371N5711, 371N5712, 371N5713, and 371N5715.

Photograph of an unidentified man driving a speedboat on the Willamette River in Portland. On the side of the boat is the number “R-15” and the name “Bad Girl.” The number 2 is written on the negative and is visible in the upper right corner of the image. Also see image No. 371N5172.

Photograph of several motorboats on the Willamette River in Portland. The Steel Bridge is partially visible in the background. On the side of the boat in the foreground is the name “Bashful Boy II” and the number “G66.” Image note: Light leak on negative.

Photograph of three unidentified people driving speedboats on the Willamette River in Portland. The word “Inverness” is visible on the side of the boat at left. A single-masted boat is moored in the background. Also see image Nos. 371N5184, 371N5984, and 371N5986.

Photograph of an unidentified person driving a speedboat on the Willamette River in Portland. In the background, crowds of spectators are watching from the harbor wall and the Steel Bridge. Also see image No. 371N5985. Image note: Light leak on negative.

Photograph of an unidentified man driving a speedboat on the Willamette River in Portland. The number 3 is written on the negative and is visible in the upper right corner of the image. Also see image Nos. 371N5184, 371N5980, and 371N5986.

Photograph of an unidentified person driving a speedboat on the Willamette River in Portland. In the background, spectators are watching from the harbor wall and the Steel Bridge. Image note: The number 9 is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the image. Also see image No. 371N5983.

Photograph of an unidentified man driving a speedboat on the Willamette River in Portland. Also see image Nos. 371N5184, 371N5980, and 371N5984.

Photograph, taken from the front, showing an unidentified man driving a speedboat down the Willamette River in Portland. The boat and driver may be the same ones pictured in image No. 373G0424.

Photograph, taken from the rear, showing an unidentified man driving a speedboat on the Willamette River near the 1905 Morrison Bridge in Portland. The view is toward the northwest. The text “N27” is etched onto the negative and is visible in the lower left corner of the image.

Photograph showing an unidentified man driving a speedboat under the Morrison Bridge in Portland. The bridge is crowded with spectators. The view is to the northwest. The text “N30” is etched on the negative and is visible in the lower left corner of the image. The boat and driver may be the same ones pictured in image No. 373G0422.

Photograph showing two unidentified men riding in a speedboat on the Willamette River in Portland. They may be the same men and boat pictured in image Nos. 373G0421, 373G0425 and 373G0427.

Photograph showing a crowd of people on the docked pleasure boat Blue Bird. A sign on the dock reads “Dance Boat Blue Bird / Happiness N’ Everything / Leaves Every Eve, 9 P. M. / Sundays 8 P.M. / The Floating Palace of the Willamette / Open to the Public.”

Photograph showing the pleasure boat Blue Bird sailing on the Willamette River in Portland near Municipal Terminal No. 2. Crowds of passengers are visible at the bow and on the upper level of the boat. In the background is the 1894 Burnside Bridge. Image note: Light leak on negative.

Photograph showing two unidentified men racing a speedboat named Vogler Boy III on the Willamette River in Portland. In the background are a second boat and a bridge, probably the 1905 Morrison Bridge or the 1894 Burnside Bridge. A cropped version of this photograph was published on Page 5 of the Oregon Journal on Thursday, June 14, 1917, under the headline “Spectacular Speed Boat Race of Annual Rose Festival Regatta.” The photograph had the following caption: “Vogler Boy III, Pacific Coast speed boat champion, leading the Oregon Wolf IV in the free-for-all race of the Rose Festival regatta.” The photograph accompanied a story with the headline “Vogler Boy III Wins Free-For-All Event Of Carnival Regatta” and the subheading “Vogler's Champion Defeats Oregon Wolf IV by Margin of One Second.” See related image No. 376G0161.

Photograph showing two unidentified men racing a speedboat named Vogler Boy III on the Willamette River in Portland. In the background are a second boat and a bridge, probably the 1905 Morrison Bridge or the 1894 Burnside Bridge. A similar photograph, image No. 376G0160, was published on Page 5 of the Oregon Journal on Thursday, June 14, 1917, under the headline “Spectacular Speed Boat Race of Annual Rose Festival Regatta.” That photograph had the following caption: “Vogler Boy III, Pacific Coast speed boat champion, leading the Oregon Wolf IV in the free-for-all race of the Rose Festival regatta.” The photograph accompanied a story with the headline “Vogler Boy III Wins Free-For-All Event Of Carnival Regatta” and the subheading “Vogler’s Champion Defeats Oregon Wolf IV by Margin of One Second.”