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Portland. Promotional travel brochure.

1906Best.-Nr. 62213Portland OR & Brooklyn NY: The J.K. Gill Company Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition The Albertype Co. ca. 1906. Oblong 4to. 12.5 x 10.5 in. 23 leaves unnumbered. on gray-brown paper 1 leaf double-page folding. With 23 tipped-in printed Albertype photos of Portland Oregon & environs throughout 1 double-page folding birds-eye view of City from the Heights. Khaki-coloured textured softcovers yapp fore-edges w/ lozenge photo cover art plate of Mount Hood and Multnomah Falls on the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Line punch-sewn at gutter margin w/ tan silk braid minor rubbing edgewear some minor tears to yapp edges still VG copy from the libraries of A.rie Binkhorst 1865-1957 insurance agent financier and later pastor based in Battle Creek and Kalamazoo MI and A. Rodney Eckerson 1930-2024 former purchasing agent for the Port of Portland. First edition of this nicely-illustrated souvenir distributed at and after the Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition by the J.K. Gill Company as promotional souvenir for the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. bringing homesteaders land developers and business into the Pacific Northwest. Images include views of the Portland waterfront logging rafts near Swan Island municipal and commercial buildings downtown street scenes with mix of horse-drawn wagons & buggies with Brass Era automobiles City Park the statues “Coming of the White Man” and “Sacajawea” installed during the Exposition and a panoramic birds-eye view taken from the Heights. Most of the images appear to be shots by Fred H. Kiser an accomplished mountaineer and promoter who was one of the most successful and widely known landscape and commercial photographers in the American West during the opening decades of the 20th century. He and his brother Oscar operated the Lewis & Clark Official Photographic Company at the Exposition which gave them their start and he became well known for his images of National Parks and the picturesque Columbia River Gorge. Worldcat locates 1 copy Columbia - misdated “1902”. The J.K. Gill Company, Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition, The Albertype Co., paperback

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