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Portland Rose Festival, 1910
This charming horse-drawn float participated in a parade in Portland’s Third Annual Rose Carnival. The event would eventually be known as the Rose Festival Parade. …
Portland-Seattle Turnverein Special Train
The Portland Turnverein was the local chapter of the German American athletic (gymnastic) association. Turnverein, coined after the German word turnen, or physical …
Portland Waterfront, West Side, c. 1922
This photograph of Portland’s west side waterfront was taken from one of the towers of the Hawthorne Bridge in about 1922. Portland’s origin as a …
Port of Astoria - Astoria-Warrenton District
In 1919, the Port of Astoria began to improve its commercial maritime shipping capacity. Contractors built new piers, a flourmill, a grain elevator, and expanded …
Port Orford Cedar
Port Orford cedar (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana) is a coniferous tree native to southern Oregon and northern California. This 1922 photo shows several mature cedars …
Port Orford Quadrangle
This map was part of the twenty-first annual report of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), published in 1900. It shows land classification and timber density …
Portrait of Henry Pittock with Two Babies
Henry Pittock, shown here near the turn of the twentieth century, arrived in Portland in 1853. Thomas J. Dryer, publisher of the Oregonian, …
Pounding Fish, Wishham, 1910
This photograph shows a Wishxam (also spelled Wishham or Wishram) woman making pounded salmon near Celilo Falls. It was taken by Edward Curtis in 1910. …
Principal Watercourses West of the Rockies
The document reproduced here is Captain William Clark’s copy of a map sketched by two Nez Perce Indians in May 1806. It shows the principal …
Proceedings of the Wasco Council, 1855
This version of the proceedings of the treaty-making Wasco Council is a reprinted typed transcript of the original report sent to George Maypenny, United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs, …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.
