Wicked Portland by Finn J.D. John Return to introduction page Lost Chapter link to wide-screen site

Chapter 10 | The end of a golden age:


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A "Photochrom" image of the view of Portland as seen from Council Crest in 1901. Photochrom was a brand name for a highly sophisticated system of colorizing black-and-white images invented and promoted by a Swiss company, which made Photochrom prints of thousands of places around the world to market to tourists and collectors. (Image: Library of Congress)


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Businesspeople try to carry on with life in a downtown Portland suddenly come to resemble Venice, during the famous flood of 1894. This image is from Third and Washington streets. (Image: Library of Congress)


BONUS ARTICLE:

The story of the great Portland flood of 1894, in an article from the Offbeat Oregon History newspaper column.


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A panoramic lithograph of Portland published in 1888 as a fold-out insert in The West Shore magazine. This is a magnificently detailed sketch of Portland life (in the "respectable" quarter, of course) in the late Victorian age, replete with details of gentlemen on high-wheel "ordinary bicycles" and buggies driving around. (Image: Library of Congress)