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Basalt Flow and Union Pacific train, between The Dalles and Celilo, Oregon.
Image taken June 4, 2005.
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Cape Horns of the Columbia River ...
Throughout history there have been five different features named "Cape Horn" located along the Columbia River, one of them being this basalt cliff upstream of The Dalles and downstream of Celilo Falls.
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Cape Horn near Celilo ...
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One of the Cape Horns along the Columbia River is located upstream of The Dalles, Oregon and is located at Columbia River Mile (RM) _____.
In 1873 Mrs. Frances Fuller Victor in her publication "All Over Oregon and Washington" wrote about Cape Horn near Celilo ... (p.96).
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"... Aside from the river itself there is little to interest one between
Dalles City and Celilo, the upper end of the gorge of the Columbia. There
are rocks all about in every direction, a little grass, a great deal of
sand, and some very brilliant flowers growing out of it. ...
The railroad takes us along under overhanging cliffs of plutonic rock, one
of which is called Cape Horn, like its brother of the lower Columbia.
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"Cape Horn near Celilo" was located along the Celilo Canal.
An early name for this "Cape Horn near Celilo" was "Applegate Point". This basalt cliff is not named on topographic maps.
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Views ...
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Basalt Flow between The Dalles and Celilo, Oregon.
Image taken June 4, 2005.
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Cape Horn Near Celilo, etc.
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- Carlton Watkins ...
- Early Images ...
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Carleton Watkins ...
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Two famous views of
"Cape Horn near Celilo" exist, taken by photographer Carleton Watkins in the late 1860s. One is "Cape Horn, near Celilo, Columbia River" (Stereograph #1329) and the other is "Cape Horn near Celilo" (year 1867). This last image hangs in many museums around the world. In 2000, a print of Watkin's "Cape Horn near Celilo" went at auction for $236,750 to a San Francisco dealer.
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Watkins settled in San Francisco at the height of the Gold Rush, taking up the still-new medium of photography in the mid 1850s. In his pictures he aspired to capture the vastness and grandeur of the American West for audiences primarily on the East Coast and in Europe. In pursuing this goal Watkins composed images that were astonishingly sophisticated and modern in appearance. Watkins made photographs that are visually immediate, lush in detail, compositionally abstract and psychologically compelling. ..."
Carleton Watkins' 1867 image "Cape Horn Near Celilo" shows the massive basalt flow of Columbia River Basalt on the right with the Oregon Portage Railroad at its base. Haystack Butte, Washington, is in the left background.
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Penny Postcard: Cape Horn near Celilo, Columbia River Highway, Oregon.
Penny Postcard, Real Photo, Reprint, "Cape Horn Near Celilo, Columbia River, 1867."
Carleton E. Watkins.
Card No.456.
Oregon Historical Society Columbia River Gorge Postcard Series II (Watkins Series).
Albumen silver print (16x21"), in the collections of the Oregon Historical Society.
In the private collection of Lyn Topinka.
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Cape Horn near Celilo, Oregon.
Image taken June 4, 2005.
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Early Images ...
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Penny Postcard: Cape Horn near Celilo, Columbia River Highway, Oregon.
Penny Postcard, Real Photo, White Border, Divided Back (1915-1930), "Cape Horn, Oregon Trail Highway, Oregon."
Sawyer Scenic Photo.
Card #C 13 121.
In the private collection of Lyn Topinka.
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Penny Postcard: Cape Horn near Celilo ("Applegate Point"), Columbia River Highway, Oregon.
Penny Postcard, Real Photo, White Border, Divided Back (1915-1930), "Applegate Point, on Old Oregon Trail Highway, near Celilo Ore."
Copyright B.C. Markham, The Dalles, Ore.
Card No.160.
In the private collection of Lyn Topinka.
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"The Golden Age of Postcards" ...
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The early 1900s was the "Golden Age of Postcards", with the "Penny Postcard" being a popular way to send greetings to family and friends. Today the Penny Postcard has become a snapshot of history.
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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