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| Advertisement | Portland-San Franciso Passenger Steamboat Service (1889) |
| Company/Advertising Agency | Oregon Railway & Navigation Company |
| Publication Source | Tacoma city directory, p. 41 |
| Publisher | R.L. Polk & Company |
| Publisher Location | United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma |
| Publication Date | 1889
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| Advertisement Text | The only steamship line between Portland and San Francisco. The fine steamers of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company run between Portland and San Francisco every fourth day...Rates are low and accomodations good. Portland and Astoria. Steamers carrying the U.S. mails run daily...Steamer are also run in regular service on the Willamette River, the Upper Columbia River and the Snake River. |
| Contextual Notes | By 1882, the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company had established a line from Portland to eastern Washington and Oregon, forcing a decline in steamboat traffic along the Columbia River. In 1889, Union Pacific Railroad purchased the majority of the stock in the OR&N.
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| Category | Steamships, ferries and boats
Transportation and communication
Time schedules |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Steamboats--United States |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Steamboat lines--United States |
| Geographic Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma
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| Digital Collection | Early Advertising |
| Digital ID Number | ADV0276 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Pacific Northwest Collection. 979.745 D62 1889 |
| Object Type | Advertisement |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from text at 200-400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2008 |
