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Plateau Culture Digging Stick
This digging stick originated most likely from the Columbia Plateau. The color is the result of fire-hardening, a technique often used to strengthen wood. Digging …
Police and Pickets Clash, Stimson Mill, 1935
This photograph—published in the Oregon Journal on June 14, 1935—shows a state policeman clubbing a picketer several miles south of Forest Grove. The unidentified picketer …
Ponderosa Pine, Prineville, 1931
Forest fires are an important component of the ecosystem. The Native population used fire as a tool to enhance the production of food, opening the dense …
Portage Railroad near Cape Horn
In 1863, the Oregon Steam Navigation Company (OSNC) built a fourteen-mile-long portage railroad eastward from The Dalles around Celilo Falls, a series of several long …
Portland, 1901
This is a small portion of a 1901 real estate map of Portland, showing a section on the east side of the Willamette River south …
Portland as Seen from Henry's Addition
A suburban Portland real estate development is depicted in this 1892 advertisement from Northwest Magazine, published in St. Paul, Minnesota. Real estate developer Charles …
Portland Chapter NAACP 50th Anniversary
This 1964 photograph shows Sylvia N. Thompson (left) with her daughter Addie Jean Haynes and Addie's ten-year-old son Bryan Haynes (later Dr. Haynes, DDS) holding up a poster-sized …
Portland Chinatown, 1886
This color lithograph accompanied an article titled “A Night in Chinatown” in the October 1886 issue of West Shore, a Portland news and literary …
Portland Construction Co. House Plans, 1886
These plans for a modest urban cottage were prepared by the Portland Construction Company in 1888 for George C. Flanders. The house was built at 1826 …
Portland Fire, 1873
In the early hours of August 2, 1873, fire bells rang summoning the Portland volunteer firefighters to a fire that raged, according to newspaper accounts, …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.
