Vanport Tenant’s League, 1948

Vanport Tenant’s League flyer advertising an open meeting of Vanport citizens and friends to discuss the Vanport Flood disaster, 1948.

_{City of Portland (OR) Archives, Vanport Tenant’s League : Vanport disaster meeting, A2001-074, 1948.}

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Vanport Flood, 1948

Aerial view of the Vanport Flood, 1948.

_{City of Portland (OR) Archives, A2004-002.866.}

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Broadway Bridge, 1948

Flooding near the Broadway Bridge, 1948.

 

City of Portland (OR) Archives, A2005-005.1394.5.

 

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West Delta Park, 1968

Aerial of the West Delta Park site looking west, 1968. This image shows the site of the former City of Vanport before it was developed into today’s Portland International Raceway and Heron Lakes Golf Course.

 

City of Portland (OR) Archivse, A2001-035.20.

 

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Vanport Flood, 1948

Aerial of Vanport, the Union Stockyards, and the Exposition Center during the Vanport Flood. Today marks the 70th anniversary of the flood that took place on Memorial Day weekend 1948.

 

City of Portland (OR) Archives, A2004-002.111400.

 

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Vanport, 1943

Vanport apartments on N Victory Boulevard and water tower no. 2, 1943.

 

City of Portland (OR) Archives, A2001-025.656.

 

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Vanport, 1943

Elsie Maxwell, director of Vanport school cafeterias, serving food to children, 1943.

 

City of Portland (OR) Archives, A2001-025.776.

 

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