Port Fire Department photograph album [graphic], 1907-1922

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Port Fire Department photograph album [graphic], 1907-1922

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Photograph album of various stations and fire-fighting equipment of the Portland Fire Department, 1907-1922. Includes photographs of firemen and station buildings for Engines 1-27, as well as fireboats, horse-drawn and gas-powered fire engines, and firefighting training techniques. There are several photographs of the Portland Fire Department fighting fires, including the Olympic Flour Mill fire of March 1922, and photos of firemen in the Portland Rose Festival parade of 1911. Photographers include R. R. Stanton of Portland, Or.

0.12 cubic feet (157 photographs in 1 volume).

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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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 ...

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