Celilo Falls, Oregon / Elite Studio. – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Celilo Falls, Oregon / Elite Studio. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Celilo Falls, Oregon / Elite Studio.
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Celilo Falls, on the Columbia River in what is now The Dalles area of Oregon, was one of the oldest continuously used fishing grounds in North America, and this c1931 print captures it in the years before the falls were lost. The record credits the Elite Studio and lists fishing and the river among its subjects, pointing to the Indigenous fishers who used platforms and dip nets there for thousands of years. Notably, the image dates from just before The Dalles Dam flooded the falls in 1957, so it documents a site that later disappeared beneath the reservoir.
| Created / published | c1931. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1930-1940. |
| Notes | JO8383 U.S. Copyright Office. |
| Subjects | Columbia River--1930-1940. Waterfalls--Oregon--Celilo--1930-1940. Fishing--Oregon--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,286 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-183719 |
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