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Everything in these sets is free to take: public domain, or under no known restrictions where the holding archive says so, as each picture's own credit line prints. No permission is needed to take it, print it, hang it, teach with it, or build on it. The sets gather the pictures this Archive itself holds, the way the Library of Congress gathers its own free sets: by theme, with the credit line printed on every picture. Keeping the credit is good manners toward the holders who keep the originals; it is not a condition. The credit is the trail back, and the trail is the point.
The pictures stand in sets, gathered by theme. A set is printed only when every picture in it can carry its credit and its source; more sets gather as more pictures are verified and scanned at size.
The town in maps
The two Sanborn fire insurance surveys, 1888 and 1908: the town drawn building by building, so insurers far away could price its burning. Both sheets carry deep zoom.
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The 1908 sheet stands in Gallery 5, Fire and Rebuilding →
The wreck on the sand
The Peter Iredale, ashore in 1906 and on the beach still: the famous photograph, taken nineteen days after, and the wreck as it stands in our own century. Both files are small, and their size is printed plainly beside them; the photograph's large print lives at the Oregon Historical Society.
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The wreck is a stop in Gallery 4, The Working River →
The morning paper
The Morning Astorian of October 26, 1906, the first page, whole: the town reading its worst morning. The page carries deep zoom, and its machine-read words stand with it at Cases for Kids.
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The page stands whole in Gallery 4, The Working River →
The Column from the air
The Astoria Column and its hill from the air, about 1956: the town's landmark as the gulls see it. It carries deep zoom.
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The Column's own page stands in the Places index →
The working waterfront, in photographs
The cannery shore at work, 1898 to 2018: the boats, the nets, the butcher's table, the cans, the cases, and the dock today. The heart of the set is Russell Lee's 1941 assignment for the Farm Security Administration, the fullest photographing this waterfront ever had.
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