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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
    Y-480722B-01.tif
  • Portland Meadows Motel sign outside of the area flooded by the Vanport Flood. 1948
    Y-480530B-00.tif
  • ackroyd-00795. "Civil Air Patrol operations in Vanport Flood. July 2, 1948"
    ackroyd-00795-06.tif
  • Vanport Flood refugees receive medical treatment at Swan Island. 1948
    Y-480604A-01.tif
  • Y-480528-01. Oaks Park during flood. May 28, 1948
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  • Y-480530-07. Flooded highway entrance, Vanport. May 30, 1948.
    Y-480530-07.tif
  • Y-480530-06. Survivors gather on high ground to watch the destruction of Vanport. 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.
    Y-480530-04.tif
  • ackroyd-00795. "Civil Air Patrol operations in Vanport Flood. July 2, 1948"
    ackroyd-00795-17.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."
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  • 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)
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  • 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.
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  • "Vanport Building. Unit 1 & 2." October 13. 1946
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  • CS00263-06. Portlanders view the eruption of Mt. St. Helens on May 18, 1980.
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  • Y-480604A-04. Red Cross feeding Flood evacuees at Swan Island. June 4, 1948
    Y-480604A-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
  • Y-480530B-09. Building destroyed in the Vanport Flood. 1948
    Y-480530B-09.tif
  • Y-480530-18. Survivors in a refugee center. 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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  • 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-00795-13.tiff
  • ackroyd-00758-226. House in vicinity of Portland Yacht Club. Address barely readable, may be 3023. May 30, 1948.
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  • ackroyd-00758-225. Riverside Golf & Country Club. May 30, 1948
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  • 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
  • ackroyd_00758-095. "Looking toward Denver Ave leading into Kenton district escape area. June 2, 1948"
    ackroyd-00758-095.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-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-480530-17.  Red Cross workers register the names of survivors. May 30, 1948
    Y-480530-17.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
  • ackroyd-00795. "Civil Air Patrol operations in Vanport Flood. July 2, 1948"
    ackroyd-00795-01.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
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