Richly painted officer's quarters at Fort Vancouver, a U.S. National Historic Site along the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington

Named for British North American explorer George Vancouver, the fortress was a 19th-century fur-trading post that was the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department. There, trade goods from London were exchanged with American Indians for fur pelts.
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Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13)
Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.