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Chief Joseph McCorkle Breaks Ground, Pelton Dam
This Les Orderman photograph of Wasco Chief Joseph McCorkle symbolically breaking ground for the Pelton Dam was originally published in the Oregon Journal, on …
Chief Joseph's Own Story
This excerpt is from a pamphlet titled “Chief Joseph’s Story,” a reprint of a speech which was transcribed and published in the April 1879 edition …
Chief Joseph the Younger (Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt) (1840-1904)
Chief Joseph was the leader of one band of the Nez Perce people (Nimi’ipuu). The Nez Perce resided in the plateaus, mountains and gorges of …
Chief Paulina
This photograph of Chief Paulina was likely taken in 1865 when Paulina was living on the Klamath Reservation. Paulina was a well-known war leader associated …
Chief Tommy Kuni Thompson
Chief Tommy Kuni Thompson (Wyam) was the chief of Celilo Village from the late nineteenth century until the 1950s. Over the course of his long …
Children's Home Dormitory
This photograph depicts an interior view of the Ladies’ Relief Society’s Children’s Home, a dormitory for impoverished and orphaned children. This institution, located in South Portland …
Child Service Centers, Swan Island shipyards
At the entrance to the Oregon Shipyard Corporation’s (OSC) facilities on Portland’s Swan Island in the Willamette River, the company built a large, onsite daycare …
Chinatown, 1890s
This picture shows an unusually quiet intersection at the corner of southwest Second and Washington streets, just a few blocks from Chinatown’s heart at southwest …
Chinese Americans Picket Scrap Metal to Japan
This photograph of Chinese Americans picketing at the Port of Astoria appeared in the Oregon Journal on March 3, 1939. The picket was organized to …
Chinese Cannery Workers near Astoria, Oregon
This stereographic image, printed by the Keystone View Company, has this description of the fish-cleaning process written on the back: “One [person] does nothing but cut …Interpretive Essays
Interpretive essays use primary documents from the Oregon Historical Society archives to help readers imagine the events, people, and issues that shaped Oregon history.
