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Lithograph, Valley of the Willamette River

Lithograph, Valley of the Willamette River

This hand-colored lithograph print is based on a watercolor and pencil sketch by Henry J. Warre. It was one of a series of prints included …

Oregon History Project
Log Cabin near Bingham Springs

Log Cabin near Bingham Springs

This weathered cabin, perhaps built in the 1870s, was located near Bingham Springs in eastern Umatilla County. The photograph is one of a series of …

Oregon History Project
Logged-off Land near Neahkahnie Mountain, 1968

Logged-off Land near Neahkahnie Mountain, 1968

Al Monner took this 1968 photograph of clear-cut logging near Neahkahnie Mountain, located in northwest Tillamook County. Monner, who died in 1998, was a photographer …

Oregon History Project
Log Rafts, 1902

Log Rafts, 1902

This photograph of men posing atop a “Benson raft” was originally sold as a stereograph by Underwood & Underwood, a stereographic distributing company, established in …

Oregon History Project
Log Truck Stirs Dust through Clearcut

Log Truck Stirs Dust through Clearcut

This undated photograph from the Timberman is identified as being from the Pacific Northwest.  Although the title accompanying the photograph in the collection identifies the …

Oregon History Project
Longshoremen's Strike of 1934

Longshoremen's Strike of 1934

This photograph of the 1934 waterfront strike shows Portland police escorting “scabs” through picket lines outside a hiring hall, a building used by companies to …

Oregon History Project
Looking Downstream to Celilo

Looking Downstream to Celilo

This undated photograph shows non-Indians fishing for salmon along the free-flowing and meandering Columbia River just upriver from Celilo Falls. Writing on the photograph indicates …

Oregon History Project
Louisiana Purchase

Louisiana Purchase

This map was published in a 1911 book titled Louisiana Under the Rule of Spain, France, and the United States. Maps like this appear …

Oregon History Project
Lower Columbia Fisheries Plan

Lower Columbia Fisheries Plan

In 1949, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers included this map as a representation of the Lower Columbia River Fisheries Development Program in a “review …

Oregon History Project
Lower Klamath Marshes

Lower Klamath Marshes

The Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge complex includes the Upper Klamath, Klamath Marsh, and Bear Valley Refuges in Oregon and the Lower Klamath, Tule Lake, …

Oregon History Project

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.