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Faulitz River from Yam Hills
This landscape scene was sketched by Joseph Drayton in June 1841. Drayton was a member of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, an American naval expedition that …
Federal Plan to Wipe Out Predatory Beasts Succeeds
This article, written by A. F. Averill, appeared in the Oregonian on April 29, 1917. Averill was chief inspector of the U.S. Biological Survey’s Oregon-Washington …
Fight for the Beaches
Oregon Journal photographer Herb Alden took this photograph of Peter Frost (right) and an unidentified friend at an Oct. 28, 1968 rally in Cannon Beach. …
Filipinos Want Equal Rights or Independence
This letter by Filipino worker Ernesto A. Mangaoang was published in the Oregonian on September 21, 1931. Mangaoang describes the discrimination that Filipinos faced in …
Finnish Socialist Club Picnic, Astoria, 1922
This photograph shows members of the Finnish Socialist Club picnicking in Astoria in 1922. The Finnish Socialist Club was one of Astoria’s most prominent ethnic …
Fire Area, Portland, 1873
This map shows the twenty-two block area damaged in the Fire of 1873. The fire damage is marked in dark on a map made three …
First Dwelling House in Salem, 1841
This engraving, published in a state history in 1912, depicts the house built by the Rev. Jason Lee at the present site of Salem in …
First National Bank, Klamath Falls
This photograph shows the new headquarters of the First National Bank of Klamath Falls in November 1930. At the beginning of the nationwide Depression, the …
First Street, Portland
On First Street, the Hop Wo laundry was next to the Monnastes and Davis blacksmith shop. Many other towns had the same two kinds of businesses. People …
Fish-Catching Cage, Trask River
This fish collecting cage and rack, was built across the Trask River in Tillamook County, Oregon in 1914, as part of a state fish hatchery …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.
