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| Record Creator: | Port of Vancouver |
| Description: | This collection consists of 295 photographic prints created between 1917 and 1952 by the G.M. Standifer Construction Company and the Port of Vancouver. The photographs in this collection are organized into eight books and document life at the shipyards, and the building and launch of steel and wooden ships by the G.M. Standifer Construction Company. Book 17 of this collection documents the remodel of the Port of Vancouver, Terminal No. 2. The G.M. Standifer Construction Company built both wooden and steel ships in Vancouver between 1918 and 1921 to aid in the World War I effort. |
| Related Records: | Port of Vancouver photographs are held at the Southwest Region Branch of the Washington State Archives in Olympia, WA. Please contact the reference desk at (360) 753-1684 or research@sos.wa.gov to inquire about photographs not yet available online and additional related records. |
| Access Restriction Notes: | These records are open for research. |
| Sources of Transfer | Southwest Regional Archives |
| Notes | These photographs were digitized by the Port of Vancouver. Indexing by Maggie Cogswell, Washington State Archives. |
| Agency History: | The Port of Vancouver was established on April 6, 1912. It is the state’s third largest public port and the second largest public port on the Columbia River. |
| Preferred Citation: | Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], Vancouver Port Commission, Photograph Collection, 1917-1952, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov, [date accessed]. |
| Record Count: | 239 |
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