Unidentified family and Portland Fire Department photograph album circa 1900-1950

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Unidentified family and Portland Fire Department photograph album circa 1900-1950

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232 black and white photographs and 1 color postcard in 1 album, ca. 1900-1950, primarily of firemen, firehouses, trucks, boats and dogs of the Portland Fire Department, including interiors, horse drawn vehicles, PFD floats in the Portland Rose Parade and firemen with kittens.

.29 cubic feet (233 photographs in 1 album)

eng,

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Portland (Or.).

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Portland, Oregon, began as a clearing on the west bank of the Willamette River in 1844. The new city was incorporated in 1851 and prospered because of its advantageous location near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers, among other factors. Its growth was spurred by flourishing agriculture in the Willamette Valley, the California gold rush, the Indian wars of the 1850s, and gold discoveries in eastern Oregon and Idaho in the 1860s. By the Civil War, Portland was the ...