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  • Y-481010-09.  Nance’s Bar B-Q Pit, 31 NE Cherry Court, between NE Williams Court and NE Halsey, Portland Oct 10, 1948 These streets do not exist anymore because this area of land was converted to the site of the Memorial Coliseum in 1957.
    Y-481010-09.tif
  • Y-481010-08. Nance’s Bar B-Q Pit, 31 NE Cherry Court, between NE Williams Court and NE Halsey, Portland Oct 10, 1948 These streets do not exist anymore because this area of land was converted to the site of the Memorial Coliseum in 1957.
    Y-481010-08.tif
  • Coalition of Black Men, march on N. Killigsworth, Portand, Oregon, at the corner of Mississippi. 1988
    arthur01.tif
  • 9318-01. Young Black boy standing next to a group of bicyclists, Portland, Oregon, about 1910
    9318-01.tif
  • 0001-B56 Black porters carrying luggage at railroad station depot. Broadway cab in front. Ca. 1941.
    0001-B56.tif
  • Y-481010-10.  Nance’s Bar B-Q Pit, 31 NE Cherry Court, between NE Williams Court and NE Halsey, Portland Oct 10, 1948 These streets do not exist anymore because this area of land was converted to the site of the Memorial Coliseum in 1957.
    Y-481010-10.tif
  • Y-481010-11.  Nance’s Bar B-Q Pit, 31 NE Cherry Court, between NE Williams Court and NE Halsey, Portland Oct 10, 1948 These streets do not exist anymore because this area of land was converted to the site of the Memorial Coliseum in 1957.
    Y-481010-11.tif
  • Y-610803B-16. Black kids on N. Vancouver & Stanton. Believed to be Walter Johnson on scooter. August 3, 1961
    Y-610803B-16.tif
  • Y-680111C-15. Albina Branch Public Library. January 11, 1968 Portland, Oregon.
    Y-680111C-15.tif
  • Y-490728-01. Portland Beavers in their Vaughn Stadium locker room. July 28, 1949. Caption published in the Oregonian July 31, 1949 pg. 34: "Discordant notes are foreign to the Portland Baseball club, with the Beavers all pulling together in their spirited drive for the first division. The above picture gives an idea of the existing harmony. Eddie Basinski, the Yehudi Menuhin of the diamond, provides the music on his violin while, from left, Art Pennington, Frankie Austin and Luis Marquez, Beaver Negro stars, give out with with vocal tune befitting present league standing."
    Y-490728-01.tif
  • Y-711108A-11.  Portland Development Commission board meeting. November 8, 1971. Includes scale model of downtown on table. Map of Albina and Model Cities criteria. Frame 11 chart: “Memorandum of Agreement Key Points … Negotiated by mayor and H. U. D. area/regional reps. Reflects local needs & local priority action. Lists projects and activities for one year. Includes H. U. D. commitment of earmarked funds. Needs related commitment of H. U. D. housing dollars. Must be linked to Local future year planning. Planning must involve residents of affected area and city as a whole. Must reflect National  (illegible) Environmental preservation (illegible. Most show local structure for (illegible) manage, coordinate evaluate (illegible). Should reflect maximum utilization of current individual staffs and procedures. H. U. D. encourages local approach to format.”
    Y-711108A-11.tif
  • Portland Meadows Motel sign outside of the area flooded by the Vanport Flood. 1948
    Y-480530B-00.tif
  • A Portland, Oregon school bus on Interstate 5 in 1978.
    Falconer-0366B-29-2.tif
  • ackroyd-P095-02. (White supremacists picket the arrival of Vice-President Hubert Humphrey at Portland Airport, June 11, 1965. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, prohibiting racial discrimination in voting, was before Congress at this time.)
    ackroyd-P095-02.tif
  • ackroyd 10935-1  Housing Authority of Portland. NAACP petition presentation. May 15, 1962
    ackroyd-10935-1.tif
  • Archibald James Carey Jr. (1908 – 1981) speaking at Lincoln High School on Lincoln day. He was a Black American lawyer, judge, politician, diplomat and clergyman from the south side of Chicago. He was a key speaker at the 1952 Republican National Convention, and that speech is considered to be the seed of many of the sentences that Martin Luther King used in his "I Have a Dream" speech. (KOIN microphone for broadcast)
    Y-530214A-2.tif
  • falconer-0164A-16. "Sabin School. February 10, 1971"
    falconer0164A-16.tif
  • falconer-0164A-20. "Sabin School. February 10, 1971"
    falconer0164A-20.tif
  • Y-480806B-01.  "August 6, 1948" Children on the fire truck of the Engine 24 company, at 5340 N Interstate, at the corner of Willamette, one block south of Killingsworth. This fire department serviced the area around North Portland in the area around the Overlook neighborhood, Swan Island and Jefferson High school.
    Y-480806B-01.tif
  • Y-680228B-07.  Aerial view of Emanuel Hospital and the heart of the Black business district in inner N and NE Portland, Oregon. Most of this was demolished for a proposed hospital expansion, which lost its funding. February 28, 1968. Fremont Bridge exit ramp lower left.
    Y-680228B-07.tif
  • Y-680228B-06.  Aerial view of Emanuel Hospital and the heart of the Black business district in inner N and NE Portland, Oregon. Most of this was demolished for a proposed hospital expansion, which lost its funding. February 28, 1968.
    Y-680228B-06.tif
  • 750430D-01. Emanuel Hospital, land cleared. April 30, 1975 The PDC identified 209 houses and the core business section of the Black community to clear. Neighbors created an association which vigorously opposed the condemnations but was unsuccessful. Between 1950-1980, the number of homes in Albina fell from 5072 to 2169, which is over half gone. This is remarkable because the demolitions occurred before the funding was approved. The political machine behind the demolitions was unstoppable. The PDC refused all further community proposals to use the space. This oblique aerial photograph shows the scars of removed buildings. It is looking north and slightly east. The curved street on the left is Kerby. At the bottom is Russell. On the right is the twin streets of Williams and Vancouver. Many of these blocks today remain parking lots or vacant land.
    Y-750430D-01.tif
  • Y-680114-10. Albina Black story, Reverend Edward Wilder, St. Mark's Baptist Church, 103 NE Morris St. January 14, 1968. Published in Oregonian January 21, 1968
    Y-680114-10.tif
  • Y-500622B-01. car wreck in Guilds Lake housing (black temporary housing) Address of house is 3863. Pacific Wire Rope Co. at 3615 NW St. Helens Road. June 22, 1950 Truck crash on NW St. Helens road, which killed a pedestrian and came to rest on an occupied unit at Guilds Lake Courts.
    Y-500622B-01.tif
  • Y-480604-02.  Flood evacuees at Swan Island. Red Cross serving dinner to Black evacuees at cafeteria line. June 4, 1948
    Y-480604-2.tif
  • Y-600222-02. demoliton of the Knott Street Community Center, formerly the Eliot school (Elliot School), February 22, 1960. 2711 NE Rodney, corner of Knott St. and Williams Ave. was built in 1909. Photo not published.
    Y-600222-02.tif
  • 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
    Y-480707-02.tif
  • Archibald James Carey Jr. (1908 – 1981) speaking at Lincoln High School on Lincoln day. He was a Black American lawyer, judge, politician, diplomat and clergyman from the south side of Chicago. He was a key speaker at the 1952 Republican National Convention, and that speech is considered to be the seed of many of the sentences that Martin Luther King used in his "I Have a Dream" speech. (KOIN microphone for broadcast) The Oregonian, February 14, 1953, pg. 7 "Lincoln Talk Set"
    Y-530214A-2.tif
  • A Black woman smokes a cigarette at the edge of the dance floor at McElroy's Ballroom in downtown Portland in 1956.
    8609-R57-06.tif
  • African American Oregon Fraternal Association, commonly known as “Frat Hall”, at 1412 N. Williams. May 26, 1940.  This was demolished around March, 1958 to make room for the Memorial Coliseum.  The Rose Garden Arena was built on the site. James Wasson, photographer
    0405-M05.tif
  • Y-590128-01. War Memorial in Park Blocks, pigeons. January 28, 1959
    Y-590128-01.tif
  • 8609-R57-7. Members of the vocal group are Ed Washington (former Metro Councilor) 2nd from right, and his brother Billy is second from left. Lemuel Robinson is first on the left and his brother Manfred is third from the left (they are the two sons of John and Orell Robinson.) April 20, 1956, Location is McElroy's Ballroom Portland,
    8609-R57-07.tif
  • 8609-A69. Transistor Radio Prize Winner. This woman has just won the radio as a prize at Regal Gas, 39th & Powell, Portland, Oregon. February 1957. (Location is now an Astro station.)
    8609-69.tif
  • Ackroyd 11972-5  NAACP picketing City Hall. September 30, 1963
    ackroyd-11972-5.tif
  • Ackroyd 11972-4.  NAACP picketing City Hall. September 30, 1963
    ackroyd-11972-4.tif
  • Y-570828B-11. Louis Armstrong at airport. With Phyllis Lauritz (reporter) August 28, 1957.
    Y-570828B-11.tif
  • Y-570828B-12. Louis Armstrong at airport. With Phyllis Lauritz (reporter) August 28, 1957.570828B-12. Louis Armstrong at airport. With Phyllis Lauritz (reporter) August 28, 1957.
    Y-570828B-12.tif
  • ackroyd-P095-01. (White supremacists picket the arrival of Vice-President Hubert Humphrey at Portland Airport, June 11, 1965. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, prohibiting racial discrimination in voting, was before Congress at this time.)
    ackroyd-P095-01.tif
  • Y-551005-09. aerial of SW Portland South Auditorium Urban Renewal area looking north.  October 5, 1955.
    Y-551005-09.tif
  • Y-680111A-14. "Albina negro. Albina Art Center. Oregonian Sunday magazine. January 11, 1968" (corner of Williams & NE Killingsworth)
    Y-680111A-14.tif
  • 9969-7504. Comedian performs on stage at McElroy's Ballroom, February 21, 1949.
    9969-7504.tif
  • 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
    Y-480707.tif
  • falconer-0164C-20. "Sabin School. February 10, 1971"
    falconer0164C-20.tif
  • falconer-0164D-26. "Sabin School. February 10, 1971"
    falconer0164D-26.tif
  • falconer-0164D-5. "Sabin School. February 10, 1971"
    falconer0164D-5.tif
  • falconer-0164C-22. "Sabin School. February 10, 1971"
    falconer0164C-22.tif
  • falconer-0164B-11. "Sabin School. February 10, 1971"
    falconer0164B-11.tif
  • falconer-0164C-8. "Sabin School. February 10, 1971"
    falconer0164C-8.tif
  • falconer-0164C-7. "Sabin School. February 10, 1971"
    falconer0164C-7.tif
  • falconer-0164A-17. "Sabin School. February 10, 1971"
    falconer0164A-17.tif
  • falconer-0164D-12. "Sabin School. February 10, 1971"
    falconer0164D-12.tif
  • Y-551005-03.  Aerial of future site  of Memorial Coliseum, looking NW from NE Broadway. October 5, 1955.
    Y-551005-03.tif
  • Y-551005-01.  aerial view of the proposed Exposition site (now Memorial Coliseum) between Broadway & Steel Bridges. Looking south. October 5, 1955.
    Y-551005-01.tif
  • Y-551005-02.  aerial view of the proposed Exposition site (now Memorial Coliseum) between Broadway & Steel Bridges. Looking north. October 5, 1955.
    Y-551005-02.tif
  • 9969-7529. Stylish young Afro-American woman at Dizzy Gillespie concert at McElroy's Ballroom, Tuesday, February 22, 1949.
    9969-7529.tif
  • 9969-7523. Audience members dance Be-Bop style at Dizzy Gillespie concert at McElroy's Ballroom, Tuesday, February 22, 1949.
    9969-7523.tif
  • Y-760723B-10. Emanuel Hospital. Fremont Bridge ramps. July 23, 1976
    Y-760723B-10.tif
  • Y-541125-05.  Murder at the Mysterious Billy Smith Tavern, 1500 North Wheeler, November 25th, 1954.
    Y-541125-05.tif
  • Y-700605A-02. Emanuel Hospital, Model Cities Committee luncheon. June 5, 1970
    Y-700605A-02.tif
  • 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.
    Y-480530-02.tif
  • Y-700605A-05 Emanuel Hospital, Model Citys Committee luncheon. June 5, 1970. Neighborhood opposes hospital expansion plans.
    Y-700605A-05.tif
  • 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.
    Y-480530-01.tif
  • Y-480615-1.  Bringing trailers to Guilds Lake to provide housing for Vanport victims. June 15, 1948
    Y-480615-1.tif
  • Ackroyd 04846-8. "Amato's Supper Club. Interiors & sign. Mills Brothers with chorus girls. December 4, 1953." (Amato's was on the SW corner of Broadway & Main)
    ackroyd-04846-8.tif
  • Y-480530-07. Flooded highway entrance, Vanport. May 30, 1948.
    Y-480530-07.tif
  • 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.
    Y-480530-04.tif
  • Y-480530-08. Survivors on N. Denver Avenue escape the Vanport Flood. May 30, 1948.
    Y-480530-08.tif
  • Y-480530-06. Survivors gather on high ground to watch the destruction of Vanport. May 30, 1948.
    Y-480530-06.tif
  • Y-480530-18. Survivors in a refugee center. May 30, 1948
    Y-480530-18.tif
  • Y-480530-17.  Red Cross workers register the names of survivors. May 30, 1948
    Y-480530-17.tif
  • Y-480530-10. Debris and floodwater, Vanport May 30, 1948
    Y-480530-10.tif
  • 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.
    Y-480530-05.tif
  • "Bill Hilliard with beard at desk typing. July 22, 1959" (Many Oregonian reporters grew beards in honor of the Oregon Centennial.)
    Y-590722B-36.tif
  • 9969-7526. Audience members applaud at Dizzy Gillespie concert at McElroy's Ballroom, Tuesday, February 22, 1949.
    9969-7526.tif
  • ackroyd-00022-46  East Vanport. "Vanport area slums". October 13, 1946
    ackroyd-00022-46.tif
  • Y-750430B-20A. aerial of Williams Ave. district after Emanuel demolitions. April 30, 1975
    Y-750430B-20A.tif
  • Y-750430B-19. aerial of Williams Ave. district after Emanuel demolitions. April 30, 1975
    Y-750430B-19.tif
  • Emanuel Hospital, The Model Cities' Citizens Planning Board luncheon. June 5, 1970
    Y-700605A-06.tif
  • Y-680111-B01. N. Williams looking north at the corner of Russell. January 11, 1968
    Y-680111-B01.tif
  • 9969-7530.Uniformed security guard at Dizzy Gillespie concert at McElroy's Ballroom, Tuesday, February 22, 1949.
    9969-7530.tif
  • 9969-7528. People seated at their tables at Dizzy Gillespie concert at McElroy's Ballroom, Tuesday, February 22, 1949.
    9969-7528.tif
  • ackroyd-00809-1. Vanport Housing Authority, Aerial view of Guilds Lake Trailer group. July 1, 1948 (on NW Yeon next to Willard Batteries)
    ackroyd-00809-1.tif
  • Y-750430B-18. aerial of Williams Ave. district after Emanuel demolitions. April 30, 1975
    Y-750430B-18.tif
  • 9969-7524. Audience members dance Be-Bop style at Dizzy Gillespie concert at McElroy's Ballroom, Tuesday, February 22, 1949.
    9969-7524.tif
  • Y-670228-1. Emanuel Hospital. Mr. Hansen and master plan. February 28, 1967
    Y-670228-1.tif
  • 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."
    Y-480615-2.tif
  • Vanport, Oregon soap box derby racers.
    Y-470815-1.tif
  • 470800A "Vanport - colored boys - 'Mellon" (August 1947)
    Y-470800A.tif
  • ackroyd-00758-094. "Vanport people on roofs" May 30, 1948.
    ackroyd-00758-094.tif
  • ackroyd-00022-45.  East Vanport. "Vanport area slums". October 13, 1946
    ackroyd-00022-45.tif
  • Y-480616A-03 Vanport victims in temporary housing at Guilds Lake. June 16, 1948
    Y-480616A-03.tif
  • 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.
    Y-480603A-1.tif
  • 9969-7520. Audience front row at Dizzy Gillespie concert at McElroy's Ballroom, Tuesday, February 22, 1949.
    9969-7520.tif
  • 9969-7513. Dizzy Gillespie playing trumpet at his concert at McElroy's Ballroom, Tuesday, February 22, 1949.
    9969-7513.tif
  • ackroyd-00022-47.  East Vanport. "Vanport area slums". October 13, 1946
    ackroyd-00022-47.tif
  • ackroyd-00022-44.  East Vanport. "Vanport area slums". Entrance sign "This Project Closed. U. S. Property. Trespassers will be Prosecuted. October 13, 1946
    ackroyd-00022-44.tif
  • "Vanport Building. Unit 1 & 2." October 13. 1946
    ackroyd-00022-43.tif
  • Y-480604A-04. Red Cross feeding Flood evacuees at Swan Island. June 4, 1948
    Y-480604A-04.tif
  • Y-480603A-3. Red Cross helping feed and house Flood evacuees at  Civic Auditorium. June 3, 1948
    Y-480603A-3.tif
  • Y-480530B-09. Building destroyed in the Vanport Flood. 1948
    Y-480530B-09.tif
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