Showing posts with label Wild Beauty (Book). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wild Beauty (Book). Show all posts

Monday, May 19, 2014

The Other Cape Horn…

This is the Cape Horn between The Dalles and Celilo, not the one we think of today...



http://www.northwestphotography.org/Plate11.html
Plate 11: Cape Horn, Near Celilo
Carleton E. Watkins
Albumen silver mammoth print, 1867



http://www.northwestphotography.org/Plate80.html
Plate 80: Upper Cape Horn
Lily E. White
Platinum print, 1903-1905



This is pretty clearly west of Celilo.

The CRH East of Celilo Falls
Clarence E. Mershon. The Columbia River Highway: From the Sea to the Wheat Fields of Eastern Oregon. Portland: Guardian Peaks Enterprises. 2006. 1st Edition. 223.



Not sure when, or if ever, it was called Applegate Point…


Columbia Gorge Discovery Center Photo Archive
Catalog Num: 1999.13.94BB
Condition: Good
Date:
Location: The Dalles, Oregon
Title:
Content: No. 160. Applegate Point, on Old Oregon - Trail Highway, near Celilo Ore.
Other Notes: description from above on front no correspondence "sample"
Photographer: B.C. Markham, The Dalles, Oregon
Copyright:
http://www.gorgediscovery.org/photoarchive/newDetails.asp?offset=980&ID=2706



Cliffs East of The Dalles (2014)
General area of the Columbia River Highway.
Wasco County, Oregon. March 28, 2014
Copyright © 2014 A. F. Litt, All Rights Reserved




 

 

First two photos from Wild Beauty: Photography of the Columbia River Gorge, 1867-1957