We’re assessing our photo archive directory by directory in preparation for a software upgrade. Stay tuned! We’ll be adding photographer and year to our database plus notes. 🎶 All links are clickable into the archive.


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Have fun browsing through history row-by-row as we review each photo in archive in the meantime. We’ll also have many new additions!


AerialsPhotographerYearNotes by Alan Mitchell

Aerial Western States Plywood – c1971 -1.jpgUnknown1971Aerial – Western States Cooperative Plywood Mill Postcard.

Aerial Port Orford – east view – c1970.jpgUnknown1970Aerial – Postcard

Aerial Hubbard Creek 2005 01 21.jpgUnknown2005 Aerial – Photo made by a hang glider pilot staying at the Castaway Motel. Pre-drone photography! 2005-0121

Aerial Port Orford 1926 05 15 1.jpgUnknown1926Aerial – Cropped version of Aerial Port Orford 1926.  Note the absence of dunes at Agate Beach.  The dunes became established years later after European beach grass had been introduced as a mid 1930s WPA project.

Aerial Port Orford 1926 05 15.jpgUnknown1926Aerial – Note the absence of dunes at Agate Beach.  The dunes became established years later after European beach grass had been introduced as a mid 1930s WPA project.

Aerial Port Orford 1966 04 29 information.jpgAero Photographers1966Information of the back of photos.

Aerial Port Orford 1967 09 25.jpgUnknown1967Aerial – Port Orford Aerial – Pre-Jetty – Pre-Coast Hill Water Tank – Possibly Oregon Highway Department photo. 1967-0925

Aerial Port Orford 1979 10 09.jpgUnknown1979Aerial – Possibly Oregon Highway Department photo.

Aerial Port Orford 1980 04 02.jpgUnknown1980 Aerial – Possibly Oregon Highway Department photo.

Aerial Port Orford 2005 01 21 1.jpgUnknown2005Aerial – Panoramic view of Port Orford looking west. Photo made by a hang glider pilot. ie. Before drone photography! 2005-0121

Aerial Port Orford 2006 12 20.jpgUnknown2006 Aerial – Panoramic view of Port Orford looking south. Possibly a Google simulation. 2006-1220

Aerial Port Orford Agate Beach 2002 08.jpgChris Miller 1998Aerial – Port Orford – Agate Beach looking east. Extreme wave action. 1998-0202

Aerial Port Orford Buffington Park Mill 1934 04.jpgUnknown1934Aerial – Possibly commissioned by Gilbert E. Gable. 1934-04

Aerial Port Orford c1990 1.jpgUnknownc1990Aerial – Possibly commissioned by Ronald Roseilius

Aerial Port Orford c1990 1a.jpgUnknownc1990Aerial – Possibly commissioned by Ronald Roseilius

Aerial Port Orford c1990.jpgUnknownc1990Aerial – Possibly commissioned by Ronald Roseilius

Aerial Port Orford Fort Point 1980 03.jpgAlan Mitchell1980Aerial – Driftwood – Fort Point – Port of Port Orford – Wooden Dock – Molly Malone’s Fish & Chips (future Shell Shack) – Battle Rock Park restroom in 5th Street –  Hildreth House. 1980-0322

Aerial Port Orford Fort Point 1990 06 21.jpgUS Army Corps of Engineers1990Aerial – Port Orford – Fort Point – Port of Port Orford warehouse on 5th street – Home by the Sea Bed & Breakfast. 1990-0621

Aerial Port Orford Fort Point 1998 02 02 1.jpgChris Miller1998Aerial – Port of Port Orford – Wooden Dock – Home by the Sea Bed & Breakfast – Shell Shack. 1998-0202

Aerial Port Orford Fort Point 2004 10.jpgUnknown2004Aerial – Port Warehouse – Fort Point Cleared – Home by the Sea Bed & Breakfast addition. 2004-1005

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Aerial Port Orford Fort Point 2006 07.jpgUnknown2006Aerial – Fort Point – Proposed walking trail – Port of Port Orford’s warehouse is gone. 2006-07

Aerial Port Orford Port 1966 04 29 information.jpgAero Photographers1966Aerial – Aero Photographers – #A10547 – Ed Brady, photographer. 1966-0429

Aerial Port Orford Port 1966 04 29.jpgAero Photographers1966Aerial – Panoramic view of Port Orford looking north – Aero Photographers – #A10547 – Ed Brady, photographer. 1966-0429

Aerial Port Orford Port 1966 04 29a.jpgAero Photographers1966Aerial – Port of Port Orford – Dock Beach – Fort Point – Aero Photographers – #A10547 – Ed Brady, photographer. 1966-0429

Aerial Port Orford Port 1970 06 10 1.jpgUnknown1970Aerial – Port of Port Orford – Wooden Dock. 1970-0610

Aerial Port Orford Port 1970 06 10.jpgUnknown1970Aerial – South end of Port Orford – Port of Port Orford – Wooden Dock. 1970-0610

Aerial Port Orford Port 1971 04 02.jpg
1971Aerial – South end of Port Orford – Port of Port Orford – Wooden Dock. 1971-0402

Aerial Port Orford Port 1990 06 21usace.jpgUS Army Corps of Engineers1990Aerial – Port Orford – Fort Point – Port of Port Orford warehouse on 5th street – Home by the Sea Bed & Breakfast. 1990-0621

Aerial Port Orford Port 2002 08 1.jpgChris Miller1998Aerial – Port of Port Orford – Wooden Dock – Failing Jetty. 1998-0202

Aerial Port Orford Port 2002 08.jpgChris Miller1998Aerial – Port of Port Orford – Wooden Dock – Failing Jetty. 1998-0202

Aerial Port Orford Port 2004 10.jpgUnknown2004Aerial – Port of Port Orford – High Dock – Port Warehouse – Fort Point Cleared. 2004-1005

Aerial Port Orford Port c1974.jpgUnknownc1974Aerial – Port of Port Orford – Fort Point – Battle Rock. Extreme low tide. c1974

Aerial Port Orford Port c1975.jpgUnknownc1975Aerial – Fort Point. c1975

Aerial Sixes Valley Elephant Rock 1934.jpgUnknownc1934Aerial – Sixes River Valley – Elephant Rock – c1934

Aerial Elk River Hatchery.jpgUnknown2008Aerial – Elk River Hatchery 2008-0309

Aerial Port Orford 1966 04.jpgAero Photographers1966Aerial – Panoramic view of Port Orford looking north – Aero Photographers – #A10547 – Ed Brady photographer. 1966-0449

Aerial Port Orford 1968 04 13.jpgUnknown1968Aerial – Port Orford – 1968-0413

Aerial Port Orford 2000 07 03.jpgUnknown2000Aerial – Port Orford and Elk River Valley – 2000-0703

Aerial Port Orford 2005 01 21.jpgUnknown2005Aerial – Panoramic view of Port Orford looking west. Photo made by a hang glider pilot staying at the Castaway Motel. 2005-0121

Aerial Port Orford 2006 12 20 1.jpgGoogle2006Aerial – South end of Port Orford – Looking east. 2006-1220

Aerial Port Orford 2006 12 20 2.jpgGoogle2006Aerial – Port Orford – Looking east. 2006-1220

Aerial Port Orford Agate Beach 2002 08 1.jpgChris Miller1998Aerial – Port Orford – Agate Beach looking south. Extreme wave action. 1998-0202

Aerial Port Orford c1975.jpgUnknownc1975Aerial – Panoramic view of Port Orford looking north

Aerial Port Orford c1990 2.jpgUnknownc1990Aerial – Panoramic view of Port Orford looking northwest

Aerial Port Orford Castaway Motel 2005 01 21.jpgUnknown2005Aerial – View of Castaway Motel. Photo made by a hang glider pilot staying at the Castaway Motel. 2005-0121

Aerial Port Orford Fort Point 1998 02 02.jpgChris Miller1998Aerial – Port of Port Orford – Shell Shack – Home by the Sea Bed & Breakfast – Fort Point.  1998-0202

Aerial Port Orford Lagoon 1990 06 21usace.jpgUS Army Corps of Engineers1990Aerial – Port Orford – Paradise Point – Agate Beach – Garrison Lake (Lagoon). Humbug Mountain in the distance. 1990-0621

Aerial Port Orford Nellies Cove 1990 06 21usace.jpgUS Army Corps of Engineers1990Aerial – Port Orford – Nellie’s Cove – Boathouse is gone. 1990-0621

Aerial Port Orford Nellies Cove 2002 08.jpgChris Miller1998Aerial – Port Orford – Nellie’s Cove – Boathouse is gone. 1998-0202

Aerial Port Orford Port 1994 05 05 1.jpgUnknown1994Aerial – Port of Port Orford looking south – Enclosed overlook that became a shelter for transients – Wooden dock – Cannery. 1994-0505

Aerial Port Orford Port 1994 05 05.jpgUnknown1994Aerial – Port of Port Orford looking northeast – Wooden Dock – Huge Rock – Fort Point – Battle Rock. 1994-0505

Aerial Port Orford South end 1934 04.jpgUnknown1934Aerial – Port Orford – South end looking west – Possibly commissioned by Gilbert E. Gable. 1934-04