Title Info: Vancouver Port Commission, Photograph Collection, 1916-1996

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Record Creator: Port of Vancouver
Description:
This collection consists of 799 photographic prints from two separate accessions. The photographs in this collection were created between 1916 and 1996 by the G.M. Standifer Construction Company and the Port of Vancouver and document life at the shipyards, and the building and launch of steel and wooden ships by the G.M. Standifer Construction Company. It also includes photographs of the remodel of the Port of Vancouver, Terminal No. 2 and various other photographs of the Port.

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, 1916-1996, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov, [date accessed].
Record Count: 743