Item 148220 - Portland Civil Engineer Edward Foster in a one-horse buggy, 1887
- Item 148220 - Portland Civil Engineer Edward Foster in a one-horse buggy, 1887
- Contributed by City of Portland - Planning & Development
- Item 148220
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Image Info Edward H. Foster (1869-1927) posed for this photo in a four-wheeled buggy, hitched to a single horse, on a roadway in a wooded area. At the time, city Engineer William Goodwin employed then-eighteen-year-old Foster as his third assistant.
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William Edwards, Goodwin’s First Assistant, included this image of his young colleague in an album he compiled of photographic prints. An inscription below the image reads: “E.H. Foster. Oct 1887 || Oct 24, 1887.”
