Collection

Glass negatives of Early Portland residential scenes

• Circa 1905 (Creation)

88 glass plate negatives

Collection consists of glass plate negatives that depict Portland residents and houses, circa 1905. Several photographs feature Portland families or residents posing inside or outside their homes. All of the people pictured are unidentified except for a man who is likely Dr. O.C. Blaney, pictured next to a house displaying a sign that bears his name. The negatives do not include information about the locations depicted in the photographs, but the images likely portray early neighborhoods on the east side of the Willamette River. The negatives were found in a house in Northeast Portland, and a few images show places identifiable as the east side of Portland. Subjects include houses, porches, gardens, families, portraits, and construction projects. Other images depict the Oregon Coast and agricultural work.

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The photographer of this collection of glass negatives is unknown, but may have been a resident of a boarding house in the 4700 block of Magnolia Street (now the 800 block of NE Rosa Parks Way) around 1931. The negatives were found in the house many years later by relatives of the woman who ran the boarding house in the 1930s.

• Families--Oregon--Portland
• Houses--Oregon--Portland
• glass plate negatives

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