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[COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE & OREGON COAST MANUSCRIPT/WOMEN] [RECK, Elvah Idella Dutro & RECK, Albert Ainsley "Bert"].Biblio.com

Diary of 1st trip up Columbia; Ed Leppert and A.A. Reck off on a trip to Cazadero Ore.; A trip to Seaside Sunday 8/28/1910. . . Manuscript memoir of Progressive Era excursions up the Columbia River to Estacada and Seaside OR by a Portland Railway Light & Power Co. motorman and family.

1909rif. 60789Milwaukie OR: Elvah Reck & Albert Reck 1909-1910. Tall 8vo. 6 x 9 in. 88 pp unpaginated. on blue ruled paper first 26 pp. filled out in two different manuscript hands in ink & pencil first part by Elva remainder by Albert of approx. 4500 words. Limp tan covers cloth backing & stapled at upper fore-edge center crease from folding to insert into backpack Arts & Crafts decorative borders light age toning still a VG exemplar. A concise and informative travel diary written by Elvah Reck and her husband Albert Reck a street car conductor for the PRL&P Co. and enthusiastic semi-professional photographer as they traveled on the ever-expanding railway network in and around Portland Oregon during the Progressive Era. Elvah notes that on the night before the family was to travel up the Columbia River Gorge “Bert came home at 1:16 AM developed negative of Oak Grove base ball boys and made preparations for the morning and retired at 3 AM.” Subsequently Bert and family overslept by an hour and raced to catch the train and managed to board the Baily Gatzert sternwheeler by 7:00 AM. “Bert took a picture of Rooster Rock and two pictures of Cape Horn.” Elvah makes frequent mentions of the beauty of the Columbia River and surroundings and was fascinated by the working of the Cascade Locks. They left the sternwheeler and packing three children their belongings and camera equipment they secured a camping spot. However their daughter Norma climbed on an old stump to get a better view and “put her foot in a yellow-jacket nest and the way she climbed down from there and screamed was enough to bring everyone from the other camps . . . we fought yellow-jackets and ran a half mile to keep up with Norma.” The family does manage to find an abandoned house to camp in manage their breakfast and then hike and travel along the rim into Oneonta Gorge and decided later to return back home “on account of Elvah’s back.”Reck records one of his many photo shoot excursions when on April 3 1910 he takes off with fellow enthusiast and machinist Ed Leppert to take photos at Cazadero OR at the time a stop on the Estacada Interurban Railway Line of the PRL&P Co. catching Train No 62 shot logging pictures below Boring OR and then fishing near the Clackamas River at Eagle Creek OR. Leppert 1867-1934 was a fellow Ohioan at the time working for PRL & P Co. as well as in the Albina shipyards and 3 years later moved to Ogden UT before returning to Portland. Aug. 28 1910 they took Ed along with the family for a week vacation at Seaside OR after loading the camera “and all manner of junk into one back-pack two baskets and a suitcase.” Once again the family was running late missed the connection and barely made Union Station in time to catch the 9:15 train on the Astoria & Columbia Railway to Seaside in three hours along the scenic River. Bert writes they secured a “Furnished Tent” for $ 7.00 for the week and began shooting photos along the beach of the bathers the ocean the Hotel Moore and the breakers and did some crab fishing. One of the days the sun was out so Ed and Bert “loaded up our stereo camera & tripod and started down the beach.” They trekked along the sand and rocks “watched a number of porpoises or ‘sea hogs’ sporting in the Ocean a short distance off shore. . . and wished for a telephoto lens.” By the time the pair had lugged their camera to the lighthouse the fog had rolled in obscuring the scenery. Elva Reck 1877-1955 according to census records and street directories had opened a “Racket Store” by 1920 which she operated for a few years. Bert Reck 1877-1972 had moved his family from Ohio by 1903 where he began a lifelong career as a streetcar motorman as well as shooting and selling photos of hikes on Mt. Hood digging clams visiting Nye Beach in Newport Depoe Bay and other areas around the PNW. He frequently took photos along the line he ran from Sellwood to Cazadero to the dam. See: History of Estacada Faraday and Cazadero Oregon Pacific Northwest Photoblog Aug. 7 2014; Portland Railway Light & Power Co. Interurbans PDXHistory 2017. Elvah Reck & Albert Reck, hardcover

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[MARITIME -- PORTLAND & WILLAMETTE RIVER]. WIESTER, C[harles] E[rskine].Biblio.com

Three exceptional mounted albumen photographs of a Newark-class cruiser with support ships under steam a Yorktown-class steel-hulled gunboat and finally two commercial 3-masted ships and sternwheelers on the Willamette River in Portland Oregon.

1892rif. 60143Portland OR: C.E. Wiester E.J. Partridge Corner of 3rd & Columbia 1892. Three mounted albumen photographs sized 6.75 x 4.25 in. mounted on dark maroon-coloured studio board w/ photographer’s imprint at lower right corner minor edgewear rubbing slight dustsoiling still nice images w/ good contrast. Three striking images of a bustling Port of Portland Oregon on the Willamette River depicting United States Navy warships sternwheelers barges 3-masted barks and others. The first depicts a Newark-Class Protected Cruiser most likely the USS Baltimore C-3 which was launched and commissioned in 1888 and joined the Pacific Squadron where she served until cruising the West Coast of the United States until October 1892 when she returned to the Atlantic to take part in the Naval maneuvers for the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The second shows the stern of a Yorktown-class gunboat possibly the USS Yorktown PG-1 who sailed with the USS Baltimore in Chile and later took part in sealing patrols from 1892-1898 off of Alaskan waters with the Royal Navy. Wiester 1858-1941 not to be confused with contemporary George M. Weister 1862-1922 who also began his photographic career with the Partridge Photo Company of Portland OR around 1890 and by 1892 had taken over the operation with his own imprint while Weister had launched the Weister Company selling photographs photographic supplies cameras and lantern slides. Charles Wiester worked only for a short time as a photographer as by 1900 he was working as a railroad agent and moved subsequently to Spokane WA by 1910. C.E. Wiester, E.J. Partridge, Corner of 3rd & Columbia, unknown

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