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Bandon Hatchery, Coos County
As early as 1902, the Oregon State Fish Commission established an experimental hatchery station on the Coquille River, near Bandon on the southern Oregon Coast. …
Barlow Road Toll Collection Authorization
This note, signed by Samuel K. Barlow, authorized Philip Foster to collect tolls from emigrants using the Barlow Road to cross the Cascades on their …
Barnett Trade Musket
This Barnett musket, made in England, is typical of the guns made available for trade by fur trading companies in northern North America during the …
Basque Immigration
This traditional Basque dress (property of Amparo Hofman’s Dance Troupe) was photographed by Lynn Hadley on July 24, 1998 while she was doing field work …
Basque Pelota Court, Jordan Valley
The photograph above, taken around 1920, shows a group of Basque immigrants in Jordan Valley’s pelota court. Pelota, which means “ball” in Spanish, is …
Beach Gold Diggings
This sketch was published in Harper’s Monthly Magazine in October 1856. It shows gold miners working black sands near Randolph, a short-lived mining town located …
Beatrice Marshall's Oral History
Beatrice Marshall was interviewed by Christine Poole and Madeline Moore as part of the Northwest Women’s History Project. In this transcribed excerpt of her interview, …
Beatrice Morrow Cannady
Beatrice Morrow Cannady (1890-1974), shown here in a 1929 photograph, was one of Oregon’s pioneer African American civil rights advocates. Born in Litig, Texas, on …
Beaver Trap
This beaver trap, from the early nineteenth century, was found by William Deveny in the Rogue River of southern Oregon. From the mid-sixteenth century through …
Ben Holladay (1819-1887)
On Christmas Eve 1869, the first train from Portland arrived in the small town of New Era, twenty miles away on the east side of …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.
