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Morrison Street Bridge, 1889
The Morrison Street Bridge, built in 1887, served as the first bridge to connect the east and west banks of the Willamette River. The new …
Mother Lode Mine, Baker County
This photograph shows the flotation mill of the Mother Lode Mine—also known as the Poorman/Balm Creek Mine—located about twenty miles northeast of Baker City. As …
Motorized Fishing Boats
The sales manager for the Clay Machine Company sent the first letter reproduced here to the Columbia River Packers Association (CRPA) in November 1912 hoping …
Mount Hood from Tysch Prairie
This lithograph is based on an original watercolor by Robert S. Young, the artist who accompanied the Pacific Railroad Survey of 1855 commanded by Lieutenants …
Mount Jefferson & Black Butte
This lithograph is based on an original watercolor by Robert S. Young, the artist who accompanied the Pacific Railroad Survey of 1855 commanded by Lieutenants Robert …
Moving Camp
This undated, anonymous photograph of two trains transporting a mobile camp across an unidentified, recently burned-over, and partially logged forest could have been taken anywhere …
Mr. & Mrs. C.T. Higgins and their Bomb Shelter
These two photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Higgins were taken two years apart by the Oregon Journal and provide a decent example of what a …
Mt. Hood Timberline Lodge History
This is the front page of a history of Mt. Hood’s Timberline Lodge, written by Portland area writer and teacher Claire Warner Churchill. Churchill was …
Mulino Flour Mill
The photograph above depicts one of Oregon’s earliest flour mills, built in 1851 by Richard R. Howard on the banks of Milk Creek, a tributary …
Multiple Warp Sandals
These sandals, featured in the Oregon Historical Society's exhibit "Oregon My Oregon," belonged to people living in the northern Great Basin up to 9,200 years ago. They are …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.
