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Title: Flooding Powerhouse Year: 1909
Photo ID: 163c Dimensions: H 8" x W 10"
Format: Photograph (Sepia) Condition: Poor
Collection: Local History Collection Repository Lake Oswego Library
 
Notes: Scanned as b & w. Same as 163a & b, 719a & b, 1629. Yellowed, faded, scanned as b & w. Mounted on matboard.
Notes on back: 190 Power house; Old covered bridge over Succer [sic] Creek (Oswego Creek) near confluence with Willamette River; Foreground is flooded powerhouse after break in flume from Oswego Lake Dam. Dam was blown up to save the generator.
Duplication rights: Credit Lake Oswego Public Library
Keywords: floods; Sucker Creek; electricity; Old River Road Bridge; surging
Subjects: Bridges; Covered bridges; Oswego Creek; Oswego Creek Powerhouse; Disasters