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  • 9345-02. Downtown Portland. corner S. W. 3rd at Ankeny, looking NW. Union Clothing Store, Acme Drugs. These structures are all gone now, replaced by a parking lot on the left and Dante's nightclub extending to the corner of Burnside on the right.  The arches over the intersection were installed in 1914. car appears to be a 1924 Chevrolet, license plate appears to be 1927
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  • 1205-G04 Ross Island bridge when new 1927. Photo taken from SE Portland looking toward the west bank. Logs for the Inman Poulson mill line the shore on the East bank. Photo by K Brown.
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  • 9111-163. “Rose Festival Week June 14, 1927." Portland, SW 5th from Yamhill, looking north. Meier & Frank store. Irvington trolley, car #425.
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  • CS01120-11. Mann Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, 6925 Hollywood Blvd, built in 1927. April 3, 1947
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  • 9707-K18. Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) is best known as the explorer who discovered the South Pole in 1911. This photograph was taken five years earlier at the end of his first polar exploration, which was when he became the first person to navigate the northwest passage. Amundsen telegraphed the success of his expedition to the world from the army’s northernmost wire station at Fort Egbert near Eagle, Alaska (on the Yukon river at the Canadian border). The photographer, Clarence Andrews, was stationed at Eagle as a customs agent. In Amundsen’s My life as an Explorer (1927), pg. 58, he relates “We arrived at Fort Egbert on December 5, 1905. I remember that the thermometer was sixty degrees below zero. Fort Egbert was the northernmost post of the United States army and at the end of the telegraph line. I was greeted with flattering enthusiasm by the commander at the post, who overpowered me with congratulations and with invitations to make a protracted stay as his guest. I did not feel that I could do this, but I did accept with deep gratitude his offer to send out my telegrams. I wrote out about a thousand words which were at once put on the wire. By an odd freak of circumstance, they had no sooner been sent than the cold somewhere on the line broke the wires, and it was not until a week later that they were repaired and I received confirmation that my telegram had reached the outer world. ... During this week of waiting and the subsequent weeks of recuperation I was the guest of Mr. Frank N. Smith, the resident manager of the Alaska Commercial Company, to whom I shall ever be grateful for his hospitality. I left Fort Egbert in February of 1906.” Amundsen’s boat, the Gjoa, was locked in the ice east of Point Barrow for the winter. In July the boat was freed from the ice and sailed down the Bering Strait to San Francisco. Amundsen gave the boat to the City of San Francisco, and it was installed in Golden Gate Park as a historical souvenir.<br />
In Amundsen’s Nor
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  • San Diego Waterfront Park. Cracks is sidewalk result from the November 4, 1927 earthquake
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  • Simon 114.  view of downtown Portland from the Hawthorne Bridge, after the construction of the Seawall in 1927. The buildings in the foreground were demolished to make way for the Portland Public Market Building in 1933. (note billboard advertising "7th Western Divisional meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the USA" which was held at Ogden, Utah, on October 1, 1929. billboard advertising "Powers for more than 60 years. Their 60th anniversary was 1926. In all likelihood, this dates from the summer of 1929.)
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  • 9336-LN05. Elizabeth Badroads (Cayuse and Walla Walla) and Francis Shillal (Cayuse, Walla Walla and Umatilla) wedding photo. The couple were married at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Burns, Oregon, on September 8, 1929. In the newspaper article written about their marriage, the couple said they were 19 years old, however Elizabeth was actually 16. Both had received their education at St. Andrews mission, a Catholic Indian school on the Umatilla river. Their wedding happened on the week of the annual Harney County fair and rodeo. Umatilla Indians had for many years joined the local Paiute Indians in the parade, events and dances. <br />
The bride was referred to as Princess Elizabeth Badroads by the newspaper reporter,  as she was a princess in the Pendleton Round-up Indian beauty pageant that year. Her father was Jim Badroads, one of the organizers of the event, and her sister Rosie later won the contest. Jim Badroads (1865-1933) was Chief of the Cayuse Indians on the Umatilla reservation, having succeeded Chief Captain Sumpkin in 1927.<br />
Elizabeth explained that the name Badroads (kapshish ishkit) was given to her grandfather by the Indians because his home was in a canyon and the only road leading to it was rough and difficult to get through.<br />
Once married, she became Elizabeth B. Shillal, using the middle initial B to prevent confusion with a cousin living on the Umatilla reservation, Elizabeth Pool Shillal.<br />
Francis Shillal was the son of Thomas Shillal (1883-1932).  His father raised horses on the family farm near Stanfield. <br />
Like most Indian weddings at the time, there was not an official wedding license for their marriage, even though it was performed in a church by a Catholic priest. Indian culture considered marriage to be a public recognition of a new family, and while relatives and friends may participate in feasts and bring gifts, there usually was not a specific ceremony as such.
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  • Y-480406B.  Mel Blanc at KGW studio. April 6, 1948. Mr. Blanc began his career at this studio in 1927.
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  • 9305-B7374. low-angle view of Celilo falls Original caption lettered on negative: "No. 34. Celilo Falls on Columbia River. B. C. Markham, Portland, Ore." 1927-1932.
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