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Multnomah Falls
While the exact date of this photograph of Multnomah Falls is unknown, careful study determines it was taken between 1914, when the stone footbridge in …
NAACP Flier Protesting the Housing Authority
This flier was distributed by protesters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on September 30 and October 4, 1963, at …
Naltunnetunne Plant Vocabulary
The Naltunnetunne lived on Oregon’s South Coast just north of the Chetco River prior to their removal to the Siletz Indian Reservation in the mid-1850s. …
NAREB Code of Ethics
The Oregon Real Estate Department published this version of the National Association of Real Estate Board's (NAREB) code of ethics in its February, 1956 Oregon …
Nathaniel Wyeth's expeditions to Oregon
A businessman from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Nathaniel Wyeth played an important role in the Euro American colonization of the Pacific Northwest. As a result of his …
National American Woman Suffrage Association
This photograph features delegates to the annual National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention in Portland, June 29 through July 5, 1905. Although most of the …
National Election Ticket, California, 1864
This election ticket from California is from the 1864 presidential election, when Republican incumbent President Abraham Lincoln faced Democratic challenger Gen. George B. McClellan—Lincoln’s former …
National Forest Timber for Sale
These documents describe an early timber sale in the Malheur National Forest. The first document is a newspaper advertisement for the sale, which took place …
Native Americans, Pendleton Round-Up
When Captain Meriwether Lewis passed through the Columbia Plateau in the spring of 1806, he wrote that he had not seen “a single horse which …
Native American women from Chemawa train to work in shipyards
When the labor market opened up during World War II, more than 65,000 Native Americans worked for war industries or joined the armed forces. Historian …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.
