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Aerial view of Vanport houses destroyed by flood


Image Title	Aerial view of Vanport houses destroyed by flood
Date.Original	1948-05-00
Date-Search	1940-1949
Description/Notes	Vanport City was located between the Portland city boundary and the Columbia River. Vanport was destroyed on May 30, 1948 when a section of the dike collapsed during a flood on the Columbia River.
Subject	Floods Houses Rivers -- Oregon Disasters Bird's-eye views
Geographic Subjects	Vanport City (Ore.) Multnomah County (Ore.)
Rivers and Streams	Columbia River
Object Type	Image
Original Form	Gelatin silver prints
Original Collection	Gerald W. Williams Collection
Related Digital Collections	Willamette Basin Explorer Hazards Explorer
Collection series	Portland/Oregon City album
Item Number	WilliamsG:POC Vanport flood 9
Restrictions	Permission to use must be obtained from the OSU Archives.
Related Materials	Columbia River album
Transmission Data	Master scanned with Epson 1640XL scanner at 800 dpi., 8 bit gray scale. Image manipulated with Adobe Photoshop Elements ver. 7.0.
Date.Digital	2009-12-16
Contributing.Institution	Oregon State University Libraries
Full resolution	Volume1\WilliamsG_POC_Vanport_flood9.tif http://digitalcollections.library.oregonstate.edu/gwilliams/full/WilliamsG_POC_Vanport_flood9.tif

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