Mcalpin arthur b (2 risultati)

Oblong boudoir-sized albumen photograph, sized 7.75 x 4.5 in. mounted on 8.5 x 5.25 in. studio board, gilt lettering on recto, title & location in ink manuscript on verso (minor rubbing, very minor edgewear, slight over-exposure to fore-edges), still VG bright image. A very nice early birds-eye photograph shot of Portland, Oregon, and East Portland before the merger of the two municipalities with Albina into one City a year later. This was about the time of the unofficial opening of the Portland Heights Cable Car which ran from Irving Street near Union Station past the Vista Bridge into Washington Park, with a vast trestle bridge spanning over 1000 feet along Spring. McAlpin (b. 1856) first opened his studio with Frank Abell, but then joined with Charles Y. Lamb, the printer and photo retoucher for Abell from 1883-1887, and they operated for several years as Imperial Gallery.…

Oblong albumen photo sized 9.5 x 7 in. mounted on cream-coloured studio board sized 8 x 10 in., (slight curving), still a superb exemplar, from the library of from the library of Caroline Augusta Gray Kamm (1840-1932), noted socialite and philanthropist in Portland, built home for poor women & girls with the YWCA, and was daughter of PNW pioneer William H. Gray (1810-1889) who traveled to the Lapwai Mission in Lewiston, ID in 1836 where he was the Nez Perce secular agent, and she subsequently later married Jacob Kamm (1823-1912), pioneering Oregon steamship builder, industrialist, entrepreneur, and co-owner/operator of the Ilwaco Railway & Navigation Co. This outstanding original albumen photo was issued as a promotion for the Ilwaco Railway & Navigation Co. and the soon-to-be-launched Sidewheeler Ocean Wave. Designed by Jacob Kamm the Ocean Wave was 180 feet long, 29 feet at the beam, and depth of hold at 9 feet, with a much larger deck which was cantilevered out to accommodate the side-wheeler configuration, and grossed 725 tons. She was powered by two James Rees & Co. steam engines, 24 foot sidewheels, fitted with 10 foot planks over 10 feet long, and capable of 18 miles per hour. She included enough state room accommodations for 115 passengers, and berths for 75 more. Her first captain was Lester Bailey, and the Ocean Wave was a vital link to the short narrow gauge railroad on the Long Beach Peninsula, which transported vacationers from Portland to Ilwaco, WA, with a stop in Astoria. In 1897, Kamm's co-owner of the IR &N maneuvered to lease out the Ocean Wave to the Columbia River & Puget Sound Navigation Co. "White Line" to compete with Kamm's Vancouver Transportation Co., then operated on the Puget Sound from 1897 to 1899, and finally as a ferry operating in San Francisco Bay from 1899 to 1911, and was the first ferry placed in service by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. See: Feagans, The Railroad That Ran by the Tide (1972); Wright, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (1895); Newell, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (1966).…