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George Nurse, Founder of Linkville
Born in New York in 1820, George Nurse, pictured here circa 1900, entered the Oregon Country through California in the early 1860s. In 1860, the …
George Simpson to John McLoughlin, 1842
Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) Governor George Simpson wrote this short letter to John McLoughlin, chief factor of the company’s Columbia Department, on April 27, 1842, …
German POWs, 1944
During World War II, the United States War Department established approximately 150 prisoner-of-war (POW) camps to contain nearly 340,400 German POW’s. The War Department ordered …
Gillem's Army Camp, 1873
As an agent of the Federal Government, Eadweard Muybridge recorded the final stages of the Modoc War in 1873 with this and many other photographs. …
Gillnet Fishing near Astoria
This 1937 photograph, taken by Ray Atkeson, shows men fishing with a gillnet near or at the mouth of the Columbia River. As a professional …
Gill-Netters at Rooster Rock
This ca. 1891 watercolor painting by Cleveland Rockwell shows fishers using gillnets on the Columbia River. Gill Netters Near Rooster Rock is one of hundreds …
Girls Basketball, Oregon School for the Deaf
This photograph shows the 1913 girls’ basketball team at the Oregon School for the Deaf. The school, which still exists, represents a state effort to …
Gold Mine at Cornucopia, c. 1888
The photograph, probably taken by Martin M. Hazeltine of Baker City in the late 1880s, shows a stamp mill used to process gold-bearing ore near …
Gold Scales
There is some disagreement among historians as to exactly when and where gold was first discovered in southwestern Oregon, although many credit James Cluggage and …
Gong Bi, Traditional Chinese Painting
This photograph was taken to document Jean Qin Ye’s (left) instruction of Rosalind Wang (right) in Gong Bi, a traditional Chinese painting style. The two …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.
