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Vanport

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Images of Vanport, Oregon.
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  • Y-480604A-04. Red Cross feeding Flood evacuees at Swan Island. June 4, 1948
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  • Vanport Flood refugees receive medical treatment at Swan Island. 1948
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  • Y-480604-02.  Flood evacuees at Swan Island. Red Cross serving dinner to Black evacuees at cafeteria line. June 4, 1948
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  • Y-480603A-3. Red Cross helping feed and house Flood evacuees at  Civic Auditorium. June 3, 1948
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  • Y-480603A-2. Trinity Episcopal Church was one of eleven churches, schools and halls that provided housing for displaced Vanport residents on the first night of the flood. Mrs. Maggie Bullier had rescued a sixteen month-old baby boy from Vanport, and tended him for two days at the church. The first of these photos show Mrs. Bullier taking care of the infant at the church, and the second shows the parents picking up their lost son from Mrs. Bullier. (It is unfortunate that we have no record of the names of the Vanport family.
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  • Y-480603A-1. Trinity Episcopal Church was one of eleven churches, schools and halls that provided housing for displaced Vanport residents on the first night of the flood. Mrs. Maggie Bullier had rescued a sixteen month-old baby boy from Vanport, and tended him for two days at the church. The first of these photos show Mrs. Bullier taking care of the infant at the church, and the second shows the parents picking up their lost son from Mrs. Bullier. (It is unfortunate that we have no record of the names of the Vanport family.
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  • Y-480601-05 Vanport Flood relief workers and victims assemble on NE Durham near 8th & Dekum. June 1, 1948. Woodlawn Cleaners 6808 NE Durham.
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  • View of the Vanport Flood. 1948
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  • Y-480530B-09. Building destroyed in the Vanport Flood. 1948
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  • Portland Meadows Motel sign outside of the area flooded by the Vanport Flood. 1948
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  • Y-480530-18. Survivors in a refugee center. May 30, 1948
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  • Y-480530-17.  Red Cross workers register the names of survivors. May 30, 1948
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  • Published in Oregonian 5/31/1948 pg. 10 "Life Line. These two men are struggling along a line tied to the tree at right. Some of the lower lying ground in Vanport soon after break."
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  • Y-480530-10. Debris and floodwater, Vanport May 30, 1948
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  • Y-480530-08. Survivors on N. Denver Avenue escape the Vanport Flood. May 30, 1948.
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  • Y-480530-07. Flooded highway entrance, Vanport. May 30, 1948.
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  • Y-480530-06. Survivors gather on high ground to watch the destruction of Vanport. May 30, 1948.
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  • Y-480530-05.  “Boys in Vanport, Ore., struggle to higher ground after abandoning their car as Columbia River flood waters inundate the community of 18,700.” (excerpt of  caption on Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Journal, May 31, 1948.) May 30, 1948.
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  • Y-480530-04.  “Last flood victims, some of them swimming, make their way out of swirling waters as current begins to speed up. A short time later the current became so strong it swept piles of wrecked houses into a jumbled heap at this point, near the North Denver Avenue underpass.” May 30, 1948.
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  • Y-480530-02.  “A man in a suit and hat carries a baby girl. His wife walks just behind him to his right. They are David Kizer, 32, and Ruth Kizer, 19. He carries their daughter, Barbara, 11 days shy of 1 year. They and others walk with a determined stride on North Denver Avenue.” (excerpt of caption published in the Oregonian, May 24, 1998, page M2.) May 30, 1948.
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  • Y-480530-01. Three survivors, including a boy clinging to man, wade through waist-deep water at Entrance Circle in Vanport. The man carrying the boy is Roy Ludwig. The boy is Earl Woods, age 5.  May 30, 1948.
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  • 470800A "Vanport - colored boys - 'Mellon" (August 1947)
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  • 470815-2. Vanport soap box derby, Friday August 15, 1947
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  • Vanport, Oregon soap box derby racers.
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  • Y-480707-02.  Vanport refugees at Guilds Lake leave on caravan to Salem to protest conditions. Most of the African American flood victims were given temporary housing in dilapidated war surplus mobile buildings trucked to vacant land at Guilds Lake. After a little over a month of living in these circumstances, the residents organized a caravan to Salem and protest their conditions at the State Capitol. Signs on cars read: “We Want Permanent Homes – Not Kennels on Wheels” and “Vanport Dead Cry Out for Justice”. July 7, 1948
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  • Y-480707-01.  Vanport refugees at Guilds Lake leave on caravan to Salem to protest conditions. Most of the black flood victims were given temporary housing in dilapidated war surplus mobile buildings trucked to vacant land at Guilds Lake. After a little over a month of living in these circumstances, the residents organized a caravan to Salem and protest their conditions at the State Capitol. Signs on cars read: “We Want Permanent Homes – Not Kennels on Wheels” and “Vanport Dead Cry Out for Justice”. July 7, 1948
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  • ackroyd-00022-47.  East Vanport. "Vanport area slums". October 13, 1946
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  • Overview of the devastation of the Vanport Flood. 1948
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  • ackroyd-00022-46  East Vanport. "Vanport area slums". October 13, 1946
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  • ackroyd-00022-45.  East Vanport. "Vanport area slums". October 13, 1946
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  • ackroyd-00022-44.  East Vanport. "Vanport area slums". Entrance sign "This Project Closed. U. S. Property. Trespassers will be Prosecuted. October 13, 1946
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  • ackroyd-00758-110 "Entire Vanport flood district" A nearly identical photo published in Oregonian June 4, 1948 pg. 12 with arrows appended to show "first break in railroad that flooded Vanport, No. 1; major break in Denver avenue, No. 2; and major break through Union avenue, No. 3, which let full weight of (Columbia) down on homes and clubs, foreground". The photographer is above NE 33rd. In the foreground is the Columbia Slough. These properties are now the Columbia Edgewater Golf Club and the Riverside Golf and Country Club.
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  • Y-480722B-03.  Worker spraying on seats. 900 bus victim of Vanport flood. Before restoration. Detail shots. Cleaning, paint shop. July  22, 1948
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  • Y-480722B-02.  Worker spraying in roll-up window track. 900 bus victim of Vanport flood. Before restoration. Detail shots. Cleaning, paint shop. July  22, 1948
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  • ackroyd-00022-48.   East Vanport. "Vanport area slums". October 13, 1946
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  • Y-480722B-01.  Damage to driver’s seat. 900 bus victim of Vanport flood. Before restoration. Detail shots. Cleaning, paint shop, July  22, 1948
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  • ackroyd-00758-094. "Vanport people on roofs" May 30, 1948.
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  • ackroyd-00795. "Civil Air Patrol operations in Vanport Flood. July 2, 1948"
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  • Y-480615-2. House trailers from Stockton, Cal., are unloaded at Guilds Lake where they will form a settlement of temporary housing for refugees from flood waters that drove thousands from their homes recently."
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  • "Vanport Building. Unit 1 & 2." October 13. 1946
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  • ackroyd-00795. "Civil Air Patrol operations in Vanport Flood. July 2, 1948"
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  • ackroyd-00795. "Civil Air Patrol operations in Vanport Flood. July 2, 1948"
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  • Y-480616A-01.  Vanport victims in temporary housing at Guilds Lake. June 16, 1948
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  • Y-480616A-03 Vanport victims in temporary housing at Guilds Lake. June 16, 1948
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  • ackroyd_00758-095. "Looking toward Denver Ave leading into Kenton district escape area. June 2, 1948"
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  • ackroyd-00795. "Civil Air Patrol operations in Vanport Flood. July 2, 1948"
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  • Y-480722B-04.  Worker hosing out debris in bus. 900 bus victim of Vanport flood. Before restoration. Detail shots. Cleaning, paint shop. July  22, 1948
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  • ackroyd-00795. "Civil Air Patrol operations in Vanport Flood. July 2, 1948"
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  • Y-480615-1.  Bringing trailers to Guilds Lake to provide housing for Vanport victims. June 15, 1948
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  • ackroyd-00795. "Civil Air Patrol operations in Vanport Flood. July 2, 1948"
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  • Ackroyd 00075-30. Housing Authority of Portland. Aerial of Vanport. April 22, 1946
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  • ackroyd-00795. "Civil Air Patrol operations in Vanport Flood. July 2, 1948"
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  • ackroyd-00795. "Civil Air Patrol operations in Vanport Flood. July 2, 1948"
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