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Laborers on the Klamath Project
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a New Deal program proposed in 1933 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to provide jobs for unemployed Americans during …
LaGrande-Wallowa Lake Highway, 1923
This photograph was taken by La Grande photographer William Geughan in July 1923. It shows a car driving down the La Grande-Wallowa Lake Highway near …
Laidlaw (Tumalo), 1905
This is a photograph of the central Oregon town known as Laidlaw in 1905. Within a few years, the name Tumalo came into general usage, …
Lake County Courthouse, Lakeview
The imposing Lake County courthouse is depicted a few years after its completion in 1909. The courthouse was a civic monument in a small and …
Lakeview & Goose Valley
Lakeview was named in 1876 for its view of Goose Lake, which is barely visible in the background of this photo (ca. 1910). At that …
L'Amerique Septentrionale
The full title for this French map is L’Amérique Septentrionale Divisée en ses Principaux Etats and translates as “North America divided into its principal states.” …
Land Claims in T.11S R.7E
This map appeared in Stephen A.D. Puter’s 1908 book, Looters of the Public Domain, written while the author was in jail for land fraud. …
Land Fraud Trial of Senator John Mitchell
This sketch by Harry Murphy was published in the Oregonian on June 29, 1905. It shows United States District Attorney Francis J. Heney making an …
Land Use in the 1995 Oregon Legislature
This pamphlet was written and published by Robert Liberty of 1000 Friends of Oregon. As the title indicates, the pamphlet tells the "story of land …
Last Meeting at White Point
This photo, probably taken in December 1887, purportedly shows the last stagecoaches to make the run between Ashland, Oregon, and Yreka, California. This route was …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.
