Historic Photo Archive

Show Navigation
  • Portfolio
  • About
  • Contact
  • Shop Our Archive
    • All Galleries
    • Search
    • Cart
    • Lightbox
    • Client Area

Search Results

Refine Search
Match all words
Match any word
Prints
Personal Use
Royalty-Free
Rights-Managed
(leave unchecked to
search all images)
{ 72 images found }

Loading ()...

  • 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
  • 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.
    Y-480603A-2.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
  • Y-480530-07. Flooded highway entrance, Vanport. May 30, 1948.
    Y-480530-07.tif
  • ackroyd-00022-47.  East Vanport. "Vanport area slums". October 13, 1946
    ackroyd-00022-47.tif
  • Vanport Flood refugees receive medical treatment at Swan Island. 1948
    Y-480604A-01.tif
  • ackroyd-00022-45.  East Vanport. "Vanport area slums". October 13, 1946
    ackroyd-00022-45.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
  • ackroyd-00022-46  East Vanport. "Vanport area slums". October 13, 1946
    ackroyd-00022-46.tif
  • Y-480604A-04. Red Cross feeding Flood evacuees at Swan Island. June 4, 1948
    Y-480604A-04.tif
  • ackroyd-00022-48.   East Vanport. "Vanport area slums". October 13, 1946
    ackroyd-00022-48.tif
  • Y-480603A-3. Red Cross helping feed and house Flood evacuees at  Civic Auditorium. June 3, 1948
    Y-480603A-3.tif
  • 0006-04A. Union station area during Columbia & Willamette River flood June 1948
    0006-04A.tif
  • 470800A "Vanport - colored boys - 'Mellon" (August 1947)
    Y-470800A.tif
  • Y-480616A-03 Vanport victims in temporary housing at Guilds Lake. June 16, 1948
    Y-480616A-03.tif
  • "Vanport Building. Unit 1 & 2." October 13. 1946
    ackroyd-00022-43.tif
  • Ackroyd 00758-022. "Flood. The Dalles, Aerials. June 1, 1948" The stern-wheeler George Burton was stored in a Celilo canal turning basin. The flooding raised the boat over the canal wall, which broke the ship and became a total loss.
    ackroyd-00758-022.tif
  • Ackroyd 00758-023. "Flood. The Dalles. Aerials. June 1, 1948", Looking down Columbia river at a lock in the Celilo Canal. (this is not Celilo Falls)
    ackroyd-00758-023.tif
  • ackroyd-00758-233. "Railroad siding to Alcoa" Vancouver Washington. caption on vintage print: "Note the closeness of this shot made with the aerial camera as compared with the Speed Graphic shot made from the same altitude. Note contrasting sharpness of aerial camera shot." Flood. May 30, 1948
    ackroyd-00758-233.tif
  • ackroyd-00758-234. "Railroad siding to Alcoa"  Vancouver Washington. Flood. May 30, 1948
    ackroyd-00758-234.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
  • ackroyd-00758-171. "THE DALLES. Trains continued to plow through more than a foot of water as the Columbia cut through a hole in a dike at The Dalles and flooded railroad yards. Another dike holding the river out of the town continued to resist waters."
    ackroyd-00758-171.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
  • 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
    Y-480722B-02.tif
  • Y-480722B-01.  Damage to driver’s seat. 900 bus victim of Vanport flood. Before restoration. Detail shots. Cleaning, paint shop, July  22, 1948
    Y-480722B-01.tif
  • 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.
    ackroyd-00758-110.tif
  • Y-480722B-03.  Worker spraying on seats. 900 bus victim of Vanport flood. Before restoration. Detail shots. Cleaning, paint shop. July  22, 1948
    Y-480722B-03.tif
  • ackroyd-00795. "Civil Air Patrol operations in Vanport Flood. July 2, 1948"
    ackroyd-00795-17.tif
  • 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
    Y-480722B-04.tif
  • Y-480601-05 Vanport Flood relief workers and victims assemble on NE Durham near 8th & Dekum. June 1, 1948. Woodlawn Cleaners 6808 NE Durham.
    Y-480601-05.tif
  • ackroyd-00795. "Civil Air Patrol operations in Vanport Flood. July 2, 1948"
    ackroyd-00795-13.tiff
  • ackroyd-00795. "Civil Air Patrol operations in Vanport Flood. July 2, 1948"
    ackroyd-00795-06.tif
  • ackroyd-00795. "Civil Air Patrol operations in Vanport Flood. July 2, 1948"
    ackroyd-00795-15.tiff
  • ackroyd-00795. "Civil Air Patrol operations in Vanport Flood. July 2, 1948"
    ackroyd-00795-14.tiff
  • ackroyd-00795. "Civil Air Patrol operations in Vanport Flood. July 2, 1948"
    ackroyd-00795-16.tif
  • ackroyd-00795. "Civil Air Patrol operations in Vanport Flood. July 2, 1948"
    ackroyd-00795-08.tif
  • Portland Meadows Motel sign outside of the area flooded by the Vanport Flood. 1948
    Y-480530B-00.tif
  • Y-480530B-09. Building destroyed in the Vanport Flood. 1948
    Y-480530B-09.tif
  • Y-480530-08. Survivors on N. Denver Avenue escape the Vanport Flood. May 30, 1948.
    Y-480530-08.tif
  • ackroyd-00795. "Civil Air Patrol operations in Vanport Flood. July 2, 1948"
    ackroyd-00795-01.tif
  • Y-480530-06. Survivors gather on high ground to watch the destruction of Vanport. May 30, 1948.
    Y-480530-06.tif
  • Y-480616A-01.  Vanport victims in temporary housing at Guilds Lake. June 16, 1948
    Y-480616A-01.tif
  • View of the Vanport Flood. 1948
    Y-480530B-0.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
  • Y-480615-1.  Bringing trailers to Guilds Lake to provide housing for Vanport victims. June 15, 1948
    Y-480615-1.tif
  • ackroyd-00758-094. "Vanport people on roofs" May 30, 1948.
    ackroyd-00758-094.tif
  • Y-480530-10. Debris and floodwater, Vanport May 30, 1948
    Y-480530-10.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
  • 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
  • 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."
    Y-480530-12.tif
  • Vanport Housing Authority, Aerial view of Guilds Lake Trailer group. July 1, 1948 (on NW Yeon next to Willard Batteries)
    ackroyd-00809-1-2.tif
  • Overview of the devastation of the Vanport Flood. 1948
    ackroyd-00755-017.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
  • ackroyd-00758-070. "June 1, 1948. Flood Stockyard"
    ackroyd-00758-070.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-480530-17.  Red Cross workers register the names of survivors. May 30, 1948
    Y-480530-17.tif
  • "Woodland, Washington. June 2, 1948. 5x7"
    ackroyd-00758-130E.tif
  • ackroyd-00758-007. East end of Burnside Bridge. June 1, 1948
    ackroyd-00758-007.tif
  • ackroyd-00758-158. "Beaver, Oregon. June 7, 1948" (located on U.S. Route 101 and the Nestucca River, about 12 miles south of Tillamook, in Tillamook County, Oregon)
    ackroyd-00758-158.tif
  • "Flood. Jantzen Beach, steamer Portland. June 2, 1948" (5x7")
    ackroyd-00758-047.tif
  • "Woodland, Washington. June 2, 1948. 5x7"
    ackroyd-00758-130Ea.tif
  • human bones found on Vanport site. April 23, 1949 caption published 4/23/49 "BONES. The hands of Deputy Coroner G. W. Snook holds a paper bag containing bones, sockets and pelvic bones identifiable, and seven teeth from a denture. Pathologist is to examine bones Saturday morning." caption published 4/23/49 pg. 12, story on pg. 24, and followup story April 24 pg. 24
    Y-490423B-1.tif
  • ackroyd-00758-226. House in vicinity of Portland Yacht Club. Address barely readable, may be 3023. May 30, 1948.
    ackroyd-00758-226.tif
  • ackroyd-00758-223. "From intersection of Columbia Blvd. and Union Avenue, Portland Meadows, original break, Pacific International Livestock show building" May 30, 1948
    ackroyd-00758-223.tif
  • Y-480530-18. Survivors in a refugee center. May 30, 1948
    Y-480530-18.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
  • ackroyd_00758-095. "Looking toward Denver Ave leading into Kenton district escape area. June 2, 1948"
    ackroyd-00758-095.tif
  • ackroyd-00758-225. Riverside Golf & Country Club. May 30, 1948
    ackroyd-00758-225.tif
  • Y-481011B. Housing Authority visits Swan Island. October 11, 1948
    Y-481011B-01.tif
  • ackroyd-00808-04. "Aerials of Portland Harbor Docks. June 30, 1948" American Hawaiian Steamship company Quay dock Terminal 1, Pier A Terminal 1, Pier B Terminal 1. Albina dock in foreground, note dismantling of building to the south of it. Terminal 1, NW Portland
    ackroyd-00808-04.tiff
  • ackroyd-00758-117. Volunteers and National Guardsmen abandon all hope of stopping water pouring over this break in dike south of Woodland. Note men hurrying along dike. May 30, 1948
    ackroyd-00758-117.tif
  • Jantzen Beach race track underwater. May 30, 1948
    ackroyd-00758-224.tif
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
x