O. B. Coldwell photograph album [graphic], 1910-1937.

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O. B. Coldwell photograph album [graphic], 1910-1937.

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Photographs and postcards collected in an album by Orin B. (known as "O. B.") Coldwell, operating engineer for the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company and later vice president of the Portland Electric Power Company. The images date from 1910-1937 and depict the lumber industry, dams, power companies, and people associated with electric power across the United States and abroad. Subjects include dams such as the Grand Coulee dam in Washington state, the Sweetwater dam in southern California, and other dams in California, Ohio, and on the Mississippi River; dam construction in Sydney, Australia; the Union Gas and Steam Company in Cincinnati, Oh.; electricity production in the laboratory of the Ohio Insulator Company in Barberton, Oh.; and Portland General Electric Company, among other subjects. Some of the photographs were also taken by O. B. Coldwell. Includes panoramic photographs.

0.19 cubic feet (194 photographs in 1 volume).

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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The Portland General Electric Company has ties to two power companies of the late 1880s in northwest Oregon. In 1884, the United States Electric Light and Power Company was founded by Parker F. Morey and Fredrick Van Voorhies Holman. In 1889, the Willamette Falls Electric Company began producing power in Oregon City, Oregon. The company was founded by Parker F. Morey and Edward Eastham. Morey was president of the company from 1891-1892. Edward L. Eastham was president of the company from 1888 un...

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