Sternwheeler Beaver, just after launch from the Portland Shipbuilding Company's yard on February 10, 1906 at 3:00 p.m.  Also shown in inset is R. Croaward, an African-American man then 77 years of age, who formally christened the steamer.
Bissell
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1906-02-11/ed-1/seq-18/">Sunday Oregonian, February 11, 1906, part two, page 18, col.1</a>