Howdy fellow old world researchers. Let’s take a look at the oldest photographs of Portland, Oregon. This city seems to be shrouded in mystery, and we have a collection today of unique photographs of Portland taken between the years 1855 and 1940.

What makes this collection even more astounding is, technically speaking, Portland had only been established for a little over a decade at the time of the earliest photographs. We will see the history might not be all that we have been told. We have sprawling open land, farms, and outdoor wood factories depicted well into the 1880’s, and then after a lull in photographs, we see a massive city has erupted by the turn of the century.

Then directly before the Old City’s demolition in the late 1930’s, and early 1940’s, we have the most detailed photographs of Old Portland being taken, which we will focus on today. Mainly those taken by Minor White, the photographer.

The Rose City, The Great White Way; A city full of lights. The 1905 World’s Fair, The Final Demolition of the Inner Iron City; we will discuss it all. Please share your thoughts and ideas below. Enjoy!



Topics for further reading;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portlan...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_W...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multnom...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willame...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjami...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ore...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_We...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Co...