Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

   

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County. It is located in the Willamette Valley region of the Pacific Northwest, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers.

The city covers 145 square miles (380 square kilometers) and is the 26th most populous city in the United States.
Here, below is a rare collection of 44 vintage photos capturing street scenes of Portland from between the 1900s and 1910s.

 
5th and Morrison, 1912

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

 
A red electric pulls the liberty bell past the Circle Theater, 1915

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

 
Baker Stock Company in the late 1900s

 

 
Broadway in the late 1910s

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

 
Children (near political signs) in front of the Portland and OK coffee houses, circa 1900

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

 
Children walking in Portland’s historic Chinatown, ca. 1900s

 

 
Crossing the Willamette from Sellwood, ca. 1900s

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

 
East 15th and Burnside, 1919

 

 
First traffic signal in Portland SW 3rd Ave and Morrison St., 1915

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

 
Fourth street, 1907

 

Grand parade on Broadway, 1910

 

Jackson Tower, 1918

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

Lewis Clark Exposition, Summer 1905

 

Looking east on Sandy at 37th street, 1915

 

Motorcycle club at 4th and Taylor, 1912

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

Multnomah County Courthouse, circa 1900

 

Northeast Weidler Street during ice storm in 1917

 

Park School, 1904

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

Portland railway light & power streetcar special car, 1908

 

Portland Rose Parade, 1908

 

Ramapo Hotel at 1337 S.W. Washington street, 1918

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

S.E. Morrison & Water, 1915

 

S.W. 3rd Ave & Washington, 1905

 

S.W. 3rd avenue, looking North from Morrison, 1910

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

S.W. 5th and Morrison Street, 1912

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

S.W. 5th from Washington, 1907

 

S.W. Sixth and Yamhill, 1915

 

S.W. Washington and Broadway, 1914

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

Sixth and Taylor streets, 1910

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

Sixth street, looking North, 1912

 

Skidmore fountain, ca. 1910s

 

Streetcars at Third and Morrison, 1905

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

The 23rd Avenue steetcar, ca. 1910s

 

The corner of 23rd and Burnside in 1913

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

The Heilig theatre, 1912

 

The Oregonian Building at S.W. 6th and Alder, 1904

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

The Quimby House on 4th and Couch, ca. 1910s

 

Third Street on the Road of a Thousand Wonders in Portland, ca. 1910s

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

Train station, 1913

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

Union Oil Fire on June 26, 1911

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

Wagons and businesses along Front Avenue, 1910

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

Waterfront - foot of Yamhill and Salmon Sts., 1914

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

West Burnside and SW Washington at 19th, 1910

 

Rare Vintage Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Portland From Between the 1900s and 1910s

 
Women at fountain, ca. 1910s