This image of Engine 3 illustrates a transition from horse drawn fire engines to motorization. This American LaFrance steam engine was originally made to be pulled by a horse team, but was retrofitted with a Christie motorized tractor. By 1920 all Portland fire apparatus was motorized. Circa 1917.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, Engine 3, A2001-083, circa 1917.
A man driving a wood and coal delivery buggy in the snow, circa 1910.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2004-002.6846
SW 6th Avenue looking north near SW Morrison Street, circa 1910.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2004-002.7837
Can anyone tell us where this building is/was located? The image is dated August 13, 1911.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2004-002.6806
The interior of W.S. Cutler and Son Grocery, circa 1914. The two employees pictured here are Ross Everett and Jack Howard. The store was located at 1009 Union Avenue, which is now 4749 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2004-002.6801
The site of an airplane crash in Eastmoreland, 1919.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2004-002.2079
Westaway’s Grocery Market horse and wagon, circa 1909.
City of Portland Archives, Oregon, A2004-002.2496
