Black and white image of an early street paving project. Asphalt is a form of bitumen, and this is an example of an early mechanized hot-mix asphalt paving machine. Rather than being the material which covers the road, the bitumen or asphalt is the cement which holds the road materials together. In this case, it was probably gravel and small stones, the 'lythic' (lithic) in the 'bitulythic' mixture.
Sepia-toned image of what appears to be a derailed train engine, with the engineer's cab at the rear still upright but the front of the engine laying on its side beside the tracks which are covered in debris. Various men in suits and in railroad uniforms stand near the engine.
Sepia-toned image of a car and two women standing in front of 'The Needles,' large granite rock formations in South Dakota. The dedication on the back of the photo identifies one of the women as Alice Sewell, a student and sometime art instructor at Pacific University, and an artist who was part of the Portland art scene for much of the first half of the twentieth century.
Black and white image showing a camp in the trees and a narrow trail with tire tracks leading up into it. There are two wooden buildings and what appears to be a canvas tent to one side. Camp was located at the confluence of the South Fork and the Devils Lake Fork of the Wilson River in Tillamook County; this particular route later became Highway 6, the Wilson River Highway, after a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project in the late 1930s and early 1940s completed the highway.
Photograph of two men standing in front of a train waiting to depart at Portland's Union Station. Lettered on the back of the rail car is 'Forest Grove Local 117'. A covered platform runs down the right side of the image, while the three-story station is visible to the image left of the train itself.
A man stands behind a wagon on a packed dirt road. He wears a white hat, a long-sleeved white shirt, and overalls. A horse is hitched to the wagon, and a triangular frame holds a canvas cover over the wagon seat. The front wheels are smaller than the back wheels. Boxes are stacked two-high, filling the wagon bed and the tailgate. Leafy trees fill the background, behind a plank fence with a small strip of grass running in front of it.
