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Crating Apples in Hood River
This photograph, which shows workers packing apples into boxes, is identified by a hand-written note on the back as being “probably Hood River.” The photographer …
Creston Primary School
This photograph belongs to a collection that documented the Portland Public School’s garden contest in 1914. The boys depicted in it were Portland’s Creston primary …
Cross-dressing Performers at Music Hall
This photograph of cross-dressing performers at Portland's Music Hall ran on the first page of the May 17, 1950, edition of the Oregon Journal. …
Crowds Line Downtown LaGrande Streets, 1908
The intersection of Elm Street with the principal commercial artery of La Grande, Adams Street, appears in this 1908 photograph. There is a crowd and …
Cruzatte Wounds Captain Lewis
This excerpt from the journal of Meriwether Lewis describes a hunting accident on August 11, 1806, during which Lewis was shot by one of his …
Cuban Missile Crisis Protest
This peace march was held on October 24, 1962 in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Two days earlier President John Kennedy had announced the …
Dalles of the Columbia, 1805
This roughly sketched map labeled Dalles of the Columbia, with camps of October 26-28, 1805, depicts the area from Celilo Falls downstream to the …
David Sohappy
This photograph of David Sohappy, Sr. (1925–1991) was taken during a Yakama tribal trial stemming from a federal sting operation undertaken by the National Marine …
David Thompson (1770-1857)
In the late 1840s, explorer and surveyor David Thompson wrote a journal of his travels over the past half century. He meticulously recorded his findings, …
Death of Meriwether Lewis
The death of Meriwether Lewis in the fall of 1809 has long been a subject shrouded in mystery and controversy. This much we know: on …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.
